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Kerry Film Festival 2011

Part One I’ve been incredibly quiet on DN this year. Apologies for that, but the reason is I have been studying for my doctorate in cinema and writing a

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Superheroes – Michael Barnett

Some are called, some are chosen but all attempt to work for the greater good of their communities. No it’s not the synopsis for Kick-Ass 2, but rather

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Li and the Poet – Andrea Segre

Andrea Segre’s debut feature Li and the Poet tells the story of Shun Li, a Chinese woman working off her debt to a better life in Italy and the forbidden

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Natural Selection – Robbie Pickering

Although I’ve been chasing Robbie Pickering for an interview since seeing his multi-award winning Natural Selection at SXSW, it was the London Film

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Dish and the Spoon – Alison Bagnall

Alison Bagnall’s The Dish and the Spoon features a woman betrayed, who takes a romantic English teen on her journey through blind rage. Alison and I

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire – Daniel Edelstyn

I’m pretty sure that Daniel Edelstyn is the only director I met at the London Film Festival this year who’s the rightful heir to a Russian vodka

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Shock Head Soul – Simon Pummell

Based on the famous book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness from German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Simon Pummell’s feature Shock Head Soul depicts

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Art & Fashion, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Somnambulists – Richard Jobson

Angered by the way he and the rest of us allowed the UK to sleepwalk into the Iraq war, Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is a departure for the

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2011: The Whisperer in Darkness

I was once again fortunate enough to attend some of the Grimm Up North horror film festival in Manchester, now in its third year. An unplanned change in venue

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Waves – Alberto Morais

In his debut feature The Waves (Las Olas), director Alberto Morais explores the conversations we have with history and ourselves through his lead character

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Amador – Fernando León de Aranoa

In the fifth feature from Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa, a woman must reconcile dignity with personal necessity after forging a difficult

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Without – Mark Jackson

Named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, director Mark Jackson has crafted a perfectly balanced portrait of a young woman

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