Live Action Category

Live Action

Short Term 12 DVD/Blu-ray

I’ve been wanting to see Short Term 12 since MarBelle came back from last year’s London Film Festival raving about it. He interviewed director Destin

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN314: Seagulls – Martin Smith

In his dramatic short Seagulls, director Martin Smith explores the superficial yet insurmountable cultural bonds which prevent a newly arrived young showman

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Live Action

Skynet Comparisons & Scientific Inspiration with ‘The Awareness’ Director Henry Dunham

Henry Dunham joins us to talk about scientific inspiration, Skynet comparisons and working on a full-length feature adaptation of short film 'The

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Live Action

Christopher Bell Considers the Role of the Substitute Parent in ‘Bridges’

Watching Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo feature at the London Film Festival last year I was struck by one of the film’s central tenets – if you

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Live Action

Paul Speirs Makes the Personal Universal in Visual Poem ‘There is No End’

Editor turned director Paul Speirs “unravels the patterns of conditioning that create the unmanaged expectations we take into life and love”, by use of

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Awards, Live Action, Podcasts

DN312: Good Night – Muriel d’Ansembourg

In her coming of age short Good Night, Muriel d’Ansembourg mines the rich vein of dark teenage life experience whilst sidestepping the all too obvious route

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN British Shorts Film Festival 2014 Screening

A regular and much anticipated fixture on the DN film calendar, yesterday saw this year’s Lichtspielklub, British Shorts film festival come to a

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Live Action

Morality Lines Become Blurred in Álex Montoya’s Complicity Short ‘Lucas’

Álex Montoya’s Goya nominated short film Lucas, sees a seemingly reasonable transaction of pictures provided in exchange for cash, become an

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Live Action

Charles Chintzer Lai Stays Up All Night with New Romantic Drama ‘Insomniacs’

The seeming tranquillity of a slumbering city in the early hours of morning holds little peace for the sleep deprived pair at the centre of Charles Chintzer

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Live Action

Dan Kokotajlo Talks Improvisation & Fractured Timelines in His Relationship Disaster Short ‘Off Yer ‘Ead’

As we all know, the course of new romance can be a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows – the hesitant getting to know you nervousness of the first date,

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Live Action

American Hustle

I loved American Hustle. No, it’s not as worthy as 12 Years a Slave. No, it’s not opening up a dialogue about slavery today and how it has evolved

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN311: Dog Meet Goose – Jon Bryant Crawford

Jon Bryant Crawford's short Dog Meet Goose is awkward, uncomfortable cinema at its best. We sit down with Jon to find out what it’s like to have actors turn

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