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Dislocation Festival

As part of my effort to get some of the Directors Notes’ films out to a wider non-podcast audience whilst trying to become cool by association, I’m

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Bin Appetit

For those of you who can remember one of my only attempts at podcasting back in November last year (DN064), will be familiar with director Craig Rook and his

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The West Side – Episode Four

I’m a few days late with the news on this one, but frankly if you’ve been waiting on me for updates then more fool you as you should already be

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Should Money Talk?

Doc It Out has posted an interesting piece about a subject that raises its head again and again in the ethics of documentary filmmaking; should subjects get

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Film Friends Forever Present VBS

In the on-going conspiracy to make me feel bad for never getting organised enough to arrange screenings outside of the annual Reading/Leeds thing, the Film

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Documentary, News

INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin' Convention Screening

You’d think that running Directors Notes would mean I spend all my time at screenings and hobnobbing with directors, but the sad reality is that most of

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Live Action, News

Peter Bunzl's On The Upside

Back on DN043 Peter Bunzl joined us to discuss his dark, thought experiment animation Mind Games and wet our appetites with talk of his new topsy turvy short

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Vote for Duelity!

Directors Notes’ friends Boca & Ryan Uhrich – DN076 – have rightly been nominated as finalists at FITC 2008 for their dual screen

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Film Festivals for Free

Checking through my mail this morning I came across a useful link in the Shooting People bulletin for the Free Film Festivals website. As they put it: Our

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Tracey Re:Fragmented

In an industry that is often cutthroat and ruthless, I think it is always worth giving publicity and a lot of respect to those artists that decide to give

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The West Side Episode 3

This time the wait was shorter but no less painful, so once again it’s strangely satisfying to switch to town crier mode and let you know that Ryan

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Documentary, Film Festival, News

BRITDOC 08 Open for Submissions

BRITDOC, one of our favourite film festivals will be kicking off its third year on the 23rd – 25th July at Keble College, Oxford and are now on the hunt

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