Film Festival Category

Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ‘10: Meeting the man from Disney

Apologies for the radio silence but signals have been hard to come by and it’s been such an action packed festival. The weather is crisp and bright and

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ’10: Mountain Views and Heated Debates

After the epic 26 hour journey from the UK I’ve been in Montana for three days now and feel right at home in the mountains. Since I got here I have been

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ’10: Day One – Getting There, Slowly

I’ve made it to the throbbing city of Heathrow, terminal 4 (the location and setting for my husband’s film Mum & Dad, being here never fails

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Film Festival

YARNfest

There’s nothing we like more here at DN than festivals, so when we heard about the impending launch of YARNfest we asked its director Gemma Mitchell to

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Film Festival

Top 10 Sundance Documentaries of the Decade

Film critic Dennis Lim, who’s been covering the festival this year over at the Sundance Channel, has put together a rather nice list of the Top 10

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Film Festival

LIVE@SUNDANCE 2010: Producers Round Table

“Recently, Sundance Film Festival brought a group of independent film producers together for an informal discussion. This is what they talked about. Join

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Film Festival, News

Directors Notes Presents…

Tuesday – 1st December – 8pm – Sallis Benney Theatre So once again it seems that the great films we curate here on Directors Notes refuse to

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Film Festival

Filmmakers Dish Festival Dirt with Sqirrl

The regular relationship filmmakers have with film festivals is as outside hopefuls, wishing for acceptance and praying for an award or two along the way.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Music Video

Filmstock 11: Oil City Confidential

Julian Temple completes his documentary trilogy of 70s music, with a beautifully inventive look at British pub rock band Dr. Feelgood.

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Film Festival, Podcasts

Filmstock: This One Goes to 11

With a heavy heart, we speak to Filmstock founders Neil Fox & Justin Doherty about closing the doors on DN's favourite film festival that goes up to 11.

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Film Festival

Filmstock 11: The Best of the Shorts

The Filmstock short weekend has become somewhat of an annual event in my life in recent years and whatever I had planned for my summer or winter (the festival

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Film Festival

Filmstock: Establishing a Film Festival

When you live in a town where the closest thing to independent cinema is Legally Blonde 2 you could be forgiven for upping sticks to London. Instead,

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