Film Festival Category

Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010: TUB – Bobby Miller

To say webbie award winning director, Bobby Miller hit on a strange concept for his short TUB would be a pretty large understatement, but it’s a setup

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010: The Freebie – Katie Aselton

If you’re in a strong, loving relationship you can withstand anything right? In her debut feature, The Freebie, actor turned director Katie Aselton

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Film Festival

ÉCU2010: The Shorts

Before the films started, the owner of the Cinéma le Grand Action, an intense-looking woman with miraculous cheekbones and a stubborn, unwavering coiffure

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Documentary, Film Festival

ÉCU2010: Reaching Roise – Jessica Morris

I am tumbling through a rainbow of identification tags, frantically scouring for red – a red tag means a filmmaker. In my as yet futile hunt (not for lack of

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Animation, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010: Junko’s Shamisen – Sol Friedman

Alongside the feature strands, SXSW runs several shorts programmes throughout the festival, which often provide an early chance to see the work of up and

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Documentary, Film Festival

BEV2010: Ella es el Matador – Celeste Carrasco & Gemma Cubero del Barrio

Just heading out to watch Ella es el Matador was a bit of a challenge in itself. I have never understood the bloodshed of bullfighting nor will I ever find it

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Film Festival, Live Action

SXSW2010: Kick-Ass

Take the question, Why hasn’t a normal person, completely lacking in super powers ever tried to become a crime fighting hero? asked by an idle, comic

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Film Festival

ÉCU2010: The Grand Entrance

Try as we might, it’s just impossible for us to be at every festival worthy of DN coverage. The fourth year of Paris’ European Independent Film

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010: His & Hers – Ken Wardrop

It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally packed the DN bags, jumped on a plane and hit the indie directors’ favourite film festival,

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Film Festival, News

SXSW Here I Am…Where do I Begin?

After a few months of pondering whether to make the trip or not, followed by a period of intense anticipation, I’m finally here in Austin, Texas and

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky '10: Made it to NYC

A wee timelapse, shot from Hudson hotel room.

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ’10: Goodbye with a Big Old Fire

Can’t believe Big Sky is over so soon, it’s been so good and the festival grows and gets better every year. The pitching event this year was

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