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Portable Present the Curators Conference

What are you doing on September 5th? Personally, if I was anywhere near New York City I’d be heading over to the Walter Reade Theatre for the Curators

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Healing the Antagonistic Relationship Between Mainstream & Independent Cinema

This is a guest post from independent filmmaker Neil Mcenery West. Independent film has more substance, more integrity, and more creativity than mainstream

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The Church of London: What We’re Doing; What We’ve Done

Sometimes an invite drops through the letterbox/inbox that can’t be turned down, even if it is the first school night after a heavy four day weekend. Such an

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Vimeo Awards 2012 Voting Open

So the deadline has passed and the 2012 Vimeo Awards submissions have been whittled down to a svelte 156 shorts across 13 categories, now all that’s left

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WeAreDN Hits 1000 Videos

Late to game, perhaps? Work shy, never! We may have only got our act together last September and finally launched the WeAreDN Vimeo Channel, but El Vez and I

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Vimeo Gets a Facelift

We, as I’m sure a lot of you guys do, spend a massive chunk of our online time on the mighty Vimeo hunting for the films that are DN’s bread and

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DN 2011 Year in Review

So last year I told you that we’d put out the most amount of posts since DN began back in ’06. Well rather than resting on our laurels we took it

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The Beauty of a Second

190 years ago Nicolas Rieusse recorded time to an accuracy of a fifth of a second. The chronograph was born. To celebrate Rieusse’s invention, Mont Blanc

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Miranda July on Strangers

Have you heard of the School of Life? No, no. Not the one everyone talks about when something goes horrifically wrong and your only saving grace is that

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Stray Cinema 2011

Back on DN009, we mentioned a new (well new then) competition called Stray Cinema, which was inviting filmmakers to download and recut footage to be voted on

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WeAreDN Vimeo Channel

Yes the title says it all, DN now has its own bonafide channel on the glorious home of filmmaking that is Vimeo (and as you can see we’re in mighty fine

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Reading & Leeds 2011

It’s the start of the August Bank Holiday, the long weekend that annually plays host to the Reading and Leeds music festivals, which can only mean that

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