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View the full archive of Directors Notes DN EP 148: Machan – Uberto Pasolini After reading about a group of desperate slum dwellers from Sri Lanka who daringly posed as the non-existent national handball team in order to secure their passage out of the country, producer Uberto Pasolini decided to temporarily sit in the director’s chair to bring their true life story to the big screen. Showlinks Machan The Full Monty Related Posts Machan [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Machan – Uberto Pasolini Machan (2008) Based on a true story, this tragicomical tale tells the story of a sports team with a difference… Living on the margins of society, under impossible pressures, a group of desperate slum dwellers find an invitation to a handball tournament in Bavaria, Germany. This one-way ticket to the West could be the answer to their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Filmstock: This One Goes to 11 You know the sinking, gut wrenching feeling you get when your favourite TV show up and quits at the height of its success, or that band you love and adore call it a day after just a couple of kick arse albums? Well that’s something I’d always presumed wasn’t a worry I’d ever need to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. . A Buzz Films Production Related Posts Doc/Fest 09 – The International Pitch Doc/Fest 09 – Crossover Summit Doc/Fest 08 Vod03 – Daisy Asquith Doc/Fest 08 Vod02 – Emily James Doc/Fest 08 Vod01 – Lee Kern Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 minute short for the Community Channel. Greg Sanderson chairs a panel of judges including Executive Producer Jane Stephenson. . A Buzz Films Production     Related Posts Doc/Fest 09 – Crossover Summit Doc/Fest 08 Vod03 – Daisy Asquith Doc/Fest 08 Vod02 – Emily James Doc/Fest [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Summit event. Related Posts Doc/Fest 08 Vod03 – Daisy Asquith Doc/Fest 08 Vod02 – Emily James Doc/Fest 08 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 interviews, but 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 premiere of their much anticipated documentary, American: The Bill [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 tale of road tripping, polar opposite brothers to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 offering Trash Humpers, along with the chances of us ever [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 and of course music of the legend that is Bill Withers. Showlinks Still Bill Related Posts DN LFF09: Trimpin: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 at the London Film Festival to discuss the challenges of creating a documentary which elucidates the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 contributors during the research stage, Özge decided she could better serve their stories through fiction, employing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 the city of love can save her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN LFF09: 45365 – Bill Ross & Turner Ross Kicking off our series of interviews from 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 (and hometown of the brothers Ross) – Sidney, Ohio. If you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 ambiguities of their shared experience. Conclusions are left to the audience as the component characters speak [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 of such disappearances and the life long effects suffered by those who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 past. Related Posts We Dreamed America – Alex Walker Trusted Computing – Benjamin Stephan [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 and realization for its participants through conversation and destruction. Showlinks Little Burn Films Michael Kimball Luca Dipierro Black Biscotti Related Posts I WILL [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 interviews each person about their chosen object and the story behind it, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 even have the correct phone number for the object of your desire and you’re firmly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website