Film Festival Category

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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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2011 – The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 – Göran Hugo Olsson

After discovering a cache of nearly 85 hours of pristine 16mm film shot by Swedish news reporters documenting the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Darwin – Nick Brandestini

In the first of our London Film Festival interviews we sit down with director Nick Brandestini to discuss his feature documentary Darwin; a look at an isolated

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Film Festival

Back in the LFF

After leaving you in the capable hands of Danni Lizaitis last year, I’m extremely happy to be returning to the London Film Festival for its 55th

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Film Festival

onedotzero_adventures in motion 2011 preview

This year’s onedotzero_adventures in motion festival is just a couple months away, but for now here’s a peek at what’s to come.

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Film Festival, News

Reading & Leeds 2011

It’s the start of the August Bank Holiday, the long weekend that annually plays host to the Reading and Leeds music festivals, which can only mean that

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Animation, Film Festival

Person Pinball

Aaron Hughes’ closing bumper for the eighth Animation Block Party film festival turns unsuspecting passers-by in to components in his human pinball

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Film Festival, Live Action

RSSF2011: Long Form

If you love shorts, then you’ll know that it’s easy to have too much of a good thing. Many a short film full of promise has blown a promising

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Film Festival, Live Action

RSSF2011: Newcomer

Designed to cover “fictional, live action work by new filmmakers in the UK, under 12 minutes” the Rushes Soho Shorts Newcomer category is probably

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