Film Committee Chair Anna Higgs discusses BAFTA’s role as a champion of British filmmaking and the mechanics of the BAFTA Awards from eligibility to voting.
Christopher Andrews reflects on the destructive nature of toxicity in his BIFA winning debut pitting Christopher Abbott & Barry Keoghan against one another.
BIFA Best British Short winner Nina Gantz takes DN inside the craftsmanship of her stop motion film which offers a unique, poignant exploration of loss.
Rich Peppiatt takes us inside the making of his multi BIFA winning anarchic, riotous, rule breaking fictionalised biopic of Belfast hip-hop trio 'Kneecap'.
DN caught up with Eros V to learn how a conversation with The Jim Henson Company inspired his surprising man-child possessed by a puppet comedy-horror short.
Sasha Nathwani explains why a vibrant yet nostalgic colour palette was key to his coming-of-age drama about a group of London teens on a day of adventure.
Sophie Compton & Daisy-May Hudson speak to the importance of flattening outdated hierarchical structures of filmmaking for their trauma-informed documentary.
Cécile Embleton & Alys Tomlinson speak to us about the multi-year journey of their Grierson Award winning doc about a young nun facing deep inner conflict.
The Directors Notes Podcast returns! And this episode sees Sarah (joined by DN guests old and new) looking back at being thrown into the deep end of LFF 2024.
Lucio Castro joins DN with decade spanning film 'End of the Century' which reunites 2 men for a one night stand whose seeds were sown two decades earlier.
Eryk Rocha tells DN how the themes of isolation & economic struggle in his story of a Rio cab driver, 'Burning Night' mirror the current crisis in Brazil.
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