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Live Action, Podcasts

DN055: Mash Up – Jesse Lawrence

This week’s guest director Jesse Lawrence is one of the founding members of La Famiglia, a self confessed mobile guerrilla film unit who are well versed

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN054: Sugarhouse – Gary Love

Gary Love has the dubious pleasure of sitting in the Directors Notes’ hot seat this week, a long time actor turned TV director, Gary’s feature

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN053: The West Side – Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman

This is the first interview of the second year of the Directors Notes podcast. Yeah we’re 1!!! Just as Directors Notes has the majority of episodes ahead

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DN Special: Lighthouse Cineville – London to Brighton

Screen South’s Miranda Robinson chaired a Q&A with Rachel Robey and Alastair Clark, both producers for Nottingham based Wellington Films. Their debut

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Live Action

Talking with Angels – Yousaf Ali Khan

A well-worn maxim suggests that it’s always best to create stories about ‘what you know’, and Yousaf Ali Khan’s accomplished short

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Stagnate – Miranda Bowen

Mildred is an eccentric, bird-like woman who desperately tries to do her job to the best of her ability – only there’s little to do and the more

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DN049: La Primavera – Rubén Obregón Casas

Rubén Obregón Casas, left a career in the US military to become a director and today joins me to discuss for his lyrical lovers parted tale, La Primavera. La

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Animation, Live Action, Podcasts

DN046: The Raftman’s Razor – Keith Bearden

Keith Bearden joins us to discuss The Raftman’s Razor, a film that redresses the distorted Hollywood view of teenagers in movies. The Raftman’s

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DN045: The Upper Hand – Lana Schwarcz

My guest today is Lana Schwarcz talking about the plethora of creative roles she fills and her alternate reality piece The Upper Hand, where humans and puppets

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A Young Boy Navigates the Trauma of School Bullies & His Heroin-Addict Mother in Candida Scott Knight’s ‘Mercy’

UK director Candida Scott Knight's 'Mercy' tells the story of Ben, a young boy who’s bullied at school and neglected at home by his heroin-addict mother.

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DN044: Film Eight – Dan Gitsham

Today I’m joined by Dan Gitsham to discuss his dark comedy, horror, Film Eight which is quite fitting as I’m recording this on Friday the 13th. Dan

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The Ten Steps – Brendan Muldowney

Making counting to ten one of the creepiest things ever shown on screen, Brendan Muldowney’s The 10 Steps will have you going to bed with the lights on

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