Film Festival Category

Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Exploding Girl – Bradley Rust Gray

"A bit of small time drama can be a good thing every now and again." DN falls for the subtle charms of Bradley Rust Gray's 'The Exploding Girl'.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF09: Paper Heart – Nicholas Jasenovec

Do you believe in true love? If so how do you go about finding that special, once in a lifetime person? These are the questions that send Charleyne Yi and a

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Animation, Film Festival

DN LFF09: Fantastic Mr Fox – Wes Anderson

Growing up, the books of Roald Dahl were an important part of my childhood and even now they still have pride of place on my bookshelf. Some of my earliest

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF09: 45365 – Bill Ross & Turner Ross

Brothers and co-directors Bill & Turner Ross discuss their vérité feature doc which explores the daily lives of the inhabitants of a small American town.

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: Bad Lieutenant – Werner Herzog

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was definitely one of the films I was most looking forward to at this year’s London Film Festival, I mean Werner

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Film Festival

Reading & Leeds 2009…Festival Time

It’s once again the day before what I consider to be the highlight of the summer calendar of endless music festivals, Reading & Leeds; which in

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Film Festival, News

Filmstock 11

As anyone will know who reads my posts on Directors Notes, knows I’m a big supporter of my local film festival Filmstock and unashamedly try to promote

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Film Festival, News

Festivus Call for Entries

Oh how time flies! Seems like yesterday I got word about the brand new Denver based film festival, Festivus: The Film Fest for the Rest of Us. Well fast

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Film Festival, News

Dislocation ’09

Last year past guest (and creator of the DN stings), Robin van Rijn launched the Dislocation Festival: two days of experimental music, films and cake of the

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Documentary, Film Festival

A Virgin Doc/Fest Diary

This is a guest post from filmmaker, photographer and writer Craig Rook. So, here I was about to venture to the Sheffield Doc/Fest for my first time and its

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Film Festival, Live Action

Filmstock 9: Nicolas Roeg – Puffball

Having missed most of Filmstock being down with the sickness, I was really looking forward to seeing the screening of Nicolas Roeg’s Puffball and especially

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Film Festival, Live Action

Filmstock 9: Choke

I can’t believe it’s been 12 months already since one of my favourite times of the year! Never was a massive fan of Halloween, fireworks are always a

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