Film Festival Category

Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: End of Animal

Tales of the apocalypse are often told in epic gravitas and loud explosions, yet a recent trend of filmmaking has searched for strategies to dig under our skin

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR 2011: Love Addiction

Love Addiction, alternatively titled Fuyu no Kemono which means ‘Winter’s Beast’ in Japanese, throws four characters with conflicting personalities into

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: The Journals of Musan

The Tiger Awards Competition line-up showcased an impressive array of world cinema feature-length debuts (and some second features), but none of these

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: Poetry

When Yang Mija, performed with exquisite passion by veteran actress Yun Jung-hee, begins attending a local poetry class to attend to her late-life ennui, she

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Film Festival, News

YARNfest 2011 Programme

After a mightily impressive debut last year, we’re really pleased to see Gemma Mitchell’s Yarnfest return for its second year with what promises to

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Film Festival, Live Action

LSFF2011: Landscapes

It’s a real shame I didn’t have more time to attend screenings at this year’s London Short Film Festival. This, my third and final screening, was

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Film Festival, Live Action

LSFF2011: Family Affairs

One thing I forgot to mention on my last London Short Film Festival review was the surprising standard of films I saw. I mean, not that I expected to see

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Film Festival, Live Action

LSFF2011: Fucked Up Love

Last weekend the 8th London Short Film Festival hit the capital’s various screening venues and bars. Returning for its biggest year yet, having had well

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Film Festival, Live Action

Premiere Japan 2010: New Japanese Cinema

Premiere Japan was a great opportunity to catch up on recent Japanese titles that had, for one reason or another, been ignored by U.K. distributors and

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2010: Amer

One of the best films DN caught at Manchester’s Grimm Up North horror film festival was barely a horror film at all, at least not in the modern sense,

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Film Festival, Podcasts

DN UnderWire

Underwire Film Festival had its launch last Thursday and I had the pleasure of being there. A festival that aims to showcase the raw cinematic talents of

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Film Festival, Live Action

UnderWire: Editing

The final category shown at UnderWire was Editing. Probably the largest part of the industry still predominantly known as a man’s job, years ago in the

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