Live Action Category

Live Action

Martin Stirling directs this powerful message to LEGO in Greenpeace promo ‘LEGO: Everything is NOT awesome’

Martin Stirling reveals how he built an Arctic entirely of LEGO and flooded it with oil to highlight the toy company's affiliation with Shell.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN320: Loves of a Cyclops – Nathan Punwar

Director Nathan Punwar guides us through the multi-layered story of his charming short film 'Loves of a Cyclops'.

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Live Action

Jeroen Bogaert Challenges Audience Assumptions in Thought-Provoking Short Film ‘Early Birds’

Jeroen Bogaert provides an insight into the narrative origins and production approach behind 'Early Birds' in this behind the scenes look at his LFS short

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN319: Hide And Seek – Joanna Coates

Director Joanna Coates joins us ahead of her debut feature Hide And Seek's world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to discuss her raw take

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Art & Fashion, Live Action

Crossing Genres Across a Culture of Subtraction in Ramón Ayala’s Fashion Sci-Fi Short ‘People Like Us’

Ramón Ayala tells DN how his fashion film transformed beyond genre into a sci-fi tinged improvised meditation on enduring love, culpability & otherness.

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Animation, Live Action

The Spirit of Reconciliation as Captured in Chris Shepherd’s Dramatic Short ‘The Ringer’

Innovative, funny and distinctly British, DN speaks to short film legend Chris Shepherd about his unconventional father/son reunion short 'The Ringer'.

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Live Action

Surviving a Surprise Satanic Sex Party with ‘Black And White’ Director Richard Williamson

"Surviving a surprise sex party with your soul intact is tough." DN speaks to Richard Williamson, director of wickedly dark psychological short 'Black and

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Live Action

Rémy Bazerque Experiments with the Tonal Shifts of Comedy & Suspense in Short Film ‘Happy Hour’

Director Rémy Bazerque and producer Tibo Travers join DN to discuss their short film 'Happy Hour', a stylistic experiment in tone and audience expectation.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN318: The Knife That Killed Me – Kit Monkman & Marcus Romer

DN talks to directors Kit Monkman and Marcus Romer about their adaptation of Anthony McGowan’s best selling novel 'The Knife That Killed Me', shot entirely

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Live Action

Ferand Peek Reframes the Sci-Fi Short for his One-Shot Film ‘Mis-Drop’

Combining a knowledge of the sci-fi genre and a spot of lateral thinking, New Zealand director Ferand Peek's short 'Mis-Drop' is a compelling, claustrophobic

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Live Action

Brudder Films Present a Grin-Inducing Look at the Awkwardness of Puberty in ‘Foureyes’

Siblings Tyler & Conor Byrne of Brudder Films new short Foureyes is an impressive, grin-inducing look at the awkwardness of puberty. DN sat down with director

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Live Action

Repressed Emotions Boil Over in Chris Shimojima's '6-minute Mom'

In Chris Shimojima’s '6-minute Mom', a woman reconnects with her absent mother and discovers that even the sturdiest of emotional walls can be breached. DN

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