Directors Notes
Directors Notes
Directors Notes is a weekly podcast dedicated to independent filmmaking. Each week we feature in-depth interwith directors, discussing how they took their ideas from concept to screen. We also bring you our featured films, so you can be entertained by the best in drama, music videos, animations, ...
Doc/Fest 09 – Attack of the 50 Foot Reels
In the third installment of our daily Doc/Fest gems, Super 8 legend Norwood Cheek takes us through the Attack of the 50 Foot Reels filmmaking challenge.
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Doc/Fest 09 – The International Pitch
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Doc/Fest 09 – The International Pitch
Sheffield Doc/Fest day two sees six filmmakers pitch for a £10k DFID funded opportunity to create a 10 short for the Community Channel. Greg Sanderson chairs a panel of judges including Executive Producer Jane Stephenson.
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Doc/Fest 09 – Crossover Summit
The time has come once again when the documentary film community converges on the city of Sheffield for Doc/Fest. With director Frank Boyd as their guide, Buzz Films‘ Jan Bednarz & Simon Wan captured the goings on at the inaugural Crossover ...
DN LFF09: American: The Bill Hicks Story – Matt Harlock & Paul Thomas
Sadly, we’ve reached the last of our London Film Festival ‘09 afternoon tea interbut it’s a great one to go out on. I very selfishly took up a nice chunk of time with directors Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, who were at LFF for the ...
DN LFF09: Passenger Side – Matt Bissonnette
For his third feature Passenger Side, director Matt Bissonnette decided to go back to basics and the freedom that comes from shooting a film on a low budget, with a skeleton crew. We sat down over LFF tea and cakes to discuss the process of bringing his ...
DN LFF09: Trash Humpers – Harmony Korine
As a fan of many years and with a couple near misses in the past, today’s LFF interview is probably the highlight of the festival for me. It was my pleasure to spend some time (however brief) with director Harmony Korine, to discuss his latest ...
DN LFF09: Still Bill – Damani Baker & Alex Vlack
Today’s LFF afternoon tea interview is a doubleheader with co-directors Damani Baker and Alex Vlack, who after over 11 years of patient persistence, were able to bring their documentary Still Bill to the screen; a look at the life, relationships ...
DN LFF09: Trimpin: The Sound of Invention – Peter Esmonde
Hailing from Germany’s Black Forest region, the artist simply known as Trimpin is a sonic experimenter, who combines the roles of inventor, engineer and composer, with a body of work that also defies categorization. Director Peter Esmonde joins us ...
DN LFF09: Men on the Bridge – Asli Özge
Today’s LFF interview comes from Asli Özge whose debut feature Men on the Bridge began as a documentary concept to explore the distinct lives of three men working at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. However, after meeting her potential ...
DN LFF09: Paper Heart – Nicholas Jasenovec
Do you believe in true love? If so how do you go about finding that special, once in a lifetime person? These are the questions that send Charleyne Yi and a ‘documentary’ crew on a road trip across America, with a pit stop in Paris to see if ...
DN LFF09: 45365 – Bill Ross & Turner Ross
Kicking off our series of interfrom the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival, I got to chat to Bill and Turner Ross, brothers and co-directors of 45365; a verite feature documentary which explores the daily lives of the inhabitants of the American town ...
45365 – Bill Ross & Turner Ross
45356 (2009)
45365 explores the congruities of daily life in an American town – Sidney, Ohio. Through a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people, it captures the complexities and ...
DN EP 147: The Space You Leave – James Newton
When a person goes missing they leave both a mystery and a tragedy behind. Many filmmakers find themselves drawn to the inherent drama present in the mystery, but in his documentary The Space You Leave, director James Newton focuses on the tragic nature ...
The Space You Leave – James Newton
The Space You Leave (2009)
Each year, an estimated 200,000 people are reported missing in the UK alone. But when a loved one goes missing, the space left behind in their families can mean a future trapped in a tortured present, one obsessed by the ...
DN EP 146: I WILL SMASH YOU – Michael Kimball & Luca Dipierro
We’re joined this week by past guest Luca Dipierro who has combined forces with author Michael Kimball to create I WILL SMASH YOU; a documentary which explores the personal thoughts and feelings associated with objects whilst providing catharsis ...
I WILL SMASH YOU – Michael Kimball & Luca Dipierro
I WILL SMASH YOU (2009)
I WILL SMASH YOU is a documentary film in which dozens of people each tell a story about an object that has some personal meaning for them and then destroy that object in whatever manner they wish. Michael Kimball intereach person ...
DN EP 145: Ralph – Alex Winckler
It’s always daunting confessing undying love for the first time. Even more so when the girl concerned thinks of you as her ‘little brother’. Throw in the confusion of arriving in a country where you don’t speak the language or ...
Ralph – Alex Winckler
Ralph (2008)
A teenage boy travels alone to Marseille to tell his best friend that he is in love with her but he hasn’t told her that he’s coming.
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