Drama Tag Archive

Animation

Emlly Noy & Tom Madar Provide an Animated Examination of Modern Loneliness in ‘Mouth Wide Open, Ears Shut Tight’

Winning over festival audiences worldwide and picking up several awards along the way, Emlly Noy and Tom Madar’s graduation film from Israel’s

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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

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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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, 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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Live Action

12 Years a Slave

As if by some contrary twist of fate MarBelle didn’t choose 12 Years a Slave as his top film of 2013 and I manage to catch it on the first day of 2014.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN310: Some Things Mean Something – Dee Meaden

Writer/director/producer Dee Meaden joins us to discuss the dramatic importance of small moments & why she wanted to avoid the dangers of over producing.

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Live Action

A Vulpine Twilight World Beckons in Lorcan Finnegan’s ‘Foxes’

Following an impressive festival run, Lorcan Finnegan’s foreboding short Foxes makes its online debut today so we took the opportunity to sit down with the

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