UK Tag Archive

Animation, Premiere

Finding Beauty in the Chaos: Natasza Cetner on Creating ‘And the Cranes Kept Dancing’

Natasza Cetner offers us an "escape from monotony" in her woodcut-inspired paint on glass animated short - a hypnotic film about life's priorities.

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Article

Anna Smith on the Girls On Film Podcast & Awards, Feminist Film Criticism and Navigating Industry Bias

Anna Smith joins DN for a conversation about her career and building the Girls on Film Podcast and Awards into an important force in the cinematic landscape.

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Live Action

Oli Beale Weaponizes Words With Chilling Precision in Double-Edged Revenge Short ‘Good Luck Fuck Face’

Oli Beale unpacks the enjoyable process of brainstorming cancel-worthy barbs for his payback comedy, where humour and cruelty balance on a razor’s edge.

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Live Action

Choreographing Community Collapse: Athina Rachel Tsangari on the Ritualistic Filmmaking of ‘Harvest’

Athina Rachel Tsangari discusses the inimitable nature of 16mm & its essentiality in crafting her hallucinatory vision of a way of life crushed by capitalism.

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Live Action, Premiere

Abigail Wilson Revs up a Visceral Battle Against the Self in Adrenaline-Fuelled Action Short ‘Overdrive’

Abigail Wilson reveals how an apathy to mainstream depictions of menstruation fuelled her high-octane fight for bodily control allegorical short film.

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Animation

Wednesday Studio Encapsulate the Spirit of Synergised Creative Collaboration in Animated Visual Poem ‘Yin & Yang’

Iria López & Daniela Negrín Ochoa discuss the evolution of their animated visual love letter dedicated to an 11 year anniversary of fruitful collaboration.

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Live Action, Premiere

The Newman Brothers Expose the Exploitative Absurdity of the Gig Economy in Satirical Short ‘Amigo’

The Newman Brothers reveal how their rent-a-friend satire evolved from TV pilot to a sharp social commentary comedy about convenient, predatory tech platforms.

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Live Action

Bailey Tom Bailey Blends Tension and Dark Humour in Revisionist Petticoat Duel Period Comedy ‘Satisfaction’

Bailey Tom Bailey walks DN through the witty showdown in his tale of an aristocratic duel fought between a society lady and her mentor over a trivial insult.

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Live Action

Chi Thai Transforms Her Personal Refugee Trauma Into a Haunting Meditation on Survivor’s Guilt in ‘Lullaby’

Chi Thai explains why genre filmmaking was the only framework able to hold the horrific weight of her short depicting the trauma of a tragic refugee crossing.

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Live Action

Sci-Fi IVF Mystery Meets YouTube Storytelling in Uzo Oleh’s ‘Beth’, Channel 4’s First Digital Original Drama

Director Uzo Oleh & producer Yaw Basoah discuss the impact of subtext in their emotionally charged short made as Channel 4's first digital original drama.

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Live Action

Daisy-May Hudson’s ‘Lollipop’ Is a Heartbreaking Portrait of Maternal Resilience and Devastating Systemic Failure

Daisy-May Hudson opens up about turning pain into power in her feature where a young woman struggles against a broken system to regain custody of her kids.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Lovelorn Girl Vies for Her Boyfriend’s Attention in Ada Player & Bron Waugh’s Whimsical Comedy ‘Spare Part’

Ada Player & Bron Waugh explain how they adapted their stage monologue for film, found London's loneliest brutalist locations and crafted a loveable doormat.

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