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Trumix.com listings available of Directors Notes Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. DN EP 109: Bathtub - M.A.Y.O. Sometimes when I’m out hunting for films I catch something that I’m certain I want to feature from around frame 5 and have to hold back from firing off the interview invite before I’ve watched to the end. The fashion / art / experimental fusion that is Bathtub from M.A.Y.O. - Mind All Your Outsides [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bathtub - M.A.Y.O. Bathtub (2008) In a bathroom set with diamonds, white cake, and a porcelain claw-foot tub, a beautiful young woman readies for death. She’s hooked up to a machine, which instead of reading her vital signs emits a warning about the extinction of dinosaurs. In the minutes before her death, she practices a ritual to prepare herself [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 108: We Dreamed America - Alex Walker Not many directors can thank the lilt of the banjo for their move into feature projects, but this week’s guest Alex Walker - a self confessed indie boy - followed the siren’s call down the rabbit hole of Country/Americana after being exposed to the genre through his work and friendship with band Hey Negrita and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We Dreamed America - Alex Walker We Dreamed America (2007) A documentary that delves deep into the dark recesses of the British Americana music scene, exploring the gritty underworld of the New British Country movement. Featuring an array of music from all the featured artists, cultural and historical critiques from London’s luminaries of musical journalism as well as a heady slice of perspective [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 107: Thunderheist: Jerk It - That Go Many artists have the all too unfortunate experience of working away in obscurity for their entire creative life spans, so when the first two projects you put out are warmly received, with one of them selected as the winner for Thunderheist’s ‘make us a promo’ competition, chances are you’re doing several things right. Noel Paul [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thunderheist: Jerk It - That Go Thunderheist: Jerk It (2008) Winner of the Thunderheist promo competition for track Jerk It. Related Posts DN EP 107: Thunderheist: Jerk It - That Go Weightless - Erika Janunger The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone Moros Eros: On My Side - Jesse Ewles Menomena: Evil Bee - Stefan Nadelman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 106: ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann If you’re of the view that that fan films are exclusively the domain of soulless, sub-standard knock-offs, the work of this week’s guests Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann is going to massively shake your world view. Their John Carpenter inspired promo for electronic duo ZOMBIE ZOMBIE, Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free, is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free (2008) First non-official video clip made for Zombie Zombie, the electrifying French duo of Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman. Directed by Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann thanks to their favourite toys… the GI Joes! The video is an hommage to the director AND soundtrack composer John [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 105: Weightless - Erika Janunger The work of Erika Janunger spans the fields of architecture, interior design and music, however her latest piece Weightless adds filmmaking into the mix to create a hypnotic film that itself defies categorisation, and has spawned a bookcase that is currently produced by Carl Malmsten. Erika joins us to discuss how space, movement and music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weightless - Erika Janunger Weightless (2007) A short dance / architectural movie, about defying gravity. Related Posts DN EP 105: Weightless - Erika Janunger Auto Pilot, Distortion, Ping Pong & Biker Mike - Mike Chan Moros Eros: On My Side - Jesse Ewles Frame of Mind - Susie Glynn _grau - Robert Seidel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 104: White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich For most successful filmmakers putting out a film that’s well received by an audience and your peers is the pinnacle of success on a project, but if your film then goes on to inspire others to jump into the fray and give proof to the mantra of ‘just get out there and shoot,’ then you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich White Red Panic (2008) A thriller about two guys mixed up in the wrong side of life, and the toll it takes on their character and soul… Do yourself a favour and get the HD version Via the ever great No fat clips!!! Related Posts DN EP 104: White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 103: His Own Image - Runkid Despite not considering himself a fully fledged director, Runkid’s work has been picked up by D&AD and has brought forth tears from audiences. He joins us to discuss his animation His Own Image and life as a creative living in Lithuania. His Own Image Materials Original Postcards Showlinks Runkid Adobe Photoshop Adobe Flash Adobe Premiere D&AD New Blood Related Posts His Own Image - Runkid Filmstock [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website His Own Image - Runkid His Own Image (2007) So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him. Related Posts DN EP 103: His Own Image - Runkid _grau - Robert Seidel Virtuosi - Marcelo Garcia To Shoot a Rurf - Shane & Paula Sheils Stumble Then Rise on Some Awkward Morning - Kurtis Hough Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 102: Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins A recent animation graduate, Anne Wilkins has hit the ground running with her film Sun in the Night Time, a study of childhood and the transformation of relationships and roles in the shadow of loss. Sun in the Night Time Materials Stills, Character Sheets & Storyboards Showlinks Emily & Anne anneimation Arcade Fire Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour Adobe Photoshop Adobe After [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins Sun in the Night Time (2007) Cecily protects her mother from hysterical grief by maintaining the pretence that her dead brother is still alive and living in their house. Related Posts DN EP 102: Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins Carlin - Brent Green _grau - Robert Seidel ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann White Red [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 101: The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg This week I’m joined by director Daniel Bloomberg to discuss his Jacques Lacan inspired, chocolate sauce massacre short The Greatest Gift. The Greatest Gift Materials Treatment Shotlist Storyboards Showlinks Daniel Bloomberg Videology Interview Slavoj Žižek Jacques Lacan Related Posts The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg Miss D 2007 Top Ten DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma DN EP 102: Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins DN EP [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg The Greatest Gift (2008) A short film of green jello, chocolate sauce massacre and a cafeteria full of pretty women inspired by the psychoanalytic ideas of Jacques Lacan. via No fat clips!!! Related Posts DN EP 101: The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman The Shovel - Nick [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 100: El Senor Antipirina: Me Voy - Stathis Athanasiou Well it seemed like the distant future back when I posted episode 1, but believe it or not we’ve now been bringing you Directors Notes each and every week for the last 100 weeks! So to mark our move into triple figures I’m pleased to be joined by returning director Stathis Athanasiou (DN036) to talk [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website El Senor Antipirina: Me Voy - Stathis Athanasiou El Senor Antipirina: Me Voy (2008) Stathis Athanasiou finds a way to channel the heartache in his promo for El Senor Antipirina’s track Me Voy. Related Posts DN EP 100: El Senor Antipirina: Me Voy - Stathis Athanasiou Weightless - Erika Janunger Thunderheist: Jerk It - That Go The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone Moros Eros: On My [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN Special: Storm - Kurtis Hough Sometimes when I get really lucky, a director whose work we’ve featured will stick around once the interview dust has settled and become a firm friend who I can have extended film discussions with and tap up for viewing suggestions. Thankfully since his first appearance on DN 028 Kurtis Hough has fallen into that category, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 099: The Super Noble Brothers - Mark Escribano If you’re tapped into a community, creative or otherwise, the laws of nature dictate that either through chance or shear determination certain individuals will become the embodiment of that scene. Mark Escribano found such an incarnation in the Super Noble Brothers who where ubiquitous across the Milwaukee music and arts scene, and decided to explore [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Super Noble Brothers - Mark Escribano The Super Noble Brothers (2007) The Super Noble Brothers chronicles the ‘beautiful struggles’ of the uncompromising artists and entrepreneurs Davey, Tommy, and Andy Noble. Raised by independent art dealers and encouraged from the outset to pursue their artistic interests, they quickly garnered local celebrity in their home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin as talented musicians, painters and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 098: Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut It’s with complete unashamedness that I admit we discovered this week’s guest Dan Schneidkraut from our well mined source of the Filmstock Film Festival when El Vez spotted Daddy’s Time, Part two of Dan’s Seeking Wellness: Suffering Through Four Movements quadrilogy of films. My interest in the films only grew when all four parts arrived [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut Seeking Wellness: Suffering Through Four Movements (2007) A series of conceptual video projects exploring ideas relating to victimization, recovery and empathy. Part One: Cup of Friendship, Shrine of Scars Part Two: Daddy’s Time Part Three: Malignant Love Part Four: Final Project Related Posts DN EP 098: Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut Now You See Me, Now You Don’t - Attila Szasz Four Eyed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott It’s not often I experience the films we feature in their full cinematic glory, and even rarer that I also get face to face time with the directors, but of the many films we’ve covered on the show Marcy Garriott’s feature documentary Inside the Circle - which opens a window into B-Boy culture, friendship and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott Inside the Circle (2007) Capturing the raw power of a grassroots hip-hop movement, the award-winning documentary Inside the Circle tells the stories of strikingly talented b-boys Josh and Omar, former best friends who become rivals when they join competing dance crews. Immersed in the b-boy culture of defiant creativity, Omar rises to international renown, while [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 096: Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson What happens when you’re far from home and on-route to living your dream? Do you come back to start again with nothing to show for your years of effort when things get rough or do you hang on in the hope that success and the life you’ve imagined is just round the corner? Co-directed by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson Tokyo Cowboys (2008) Tokyo Cowboys follows the stories of four western men living long-term in Tokyo. The film’s delicate and humorous portrait illuminates the price some pay for a taste of Tokyo’s success. Related Posts DN EP 096: Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson We Dreamed America - Alex Walker The Super Noble Brothers - Mark Escribano Routes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 095: The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone Director Duncan Bone joins us this week to discuss his multi-discipline career and recent move into music promos with the stop frame piece Not in a Million Lovers for band The Beangrowers. The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers Materials Production Sheet Showlinks duncanbone.com The Beangrowers Adobe After Effects Related Posts The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone DN EP [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone (2008) Duncan Bone’s relationship stillsfest for The Beangrowers’ Not in a Million Lovers. Related Posts DN EP 095: The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone Moros Eros: On My Side - Jesse Ewles ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann Weightless - Erika Janunger Thunderheist: Jerk [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 094: Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba Sometimes I go after a director for one film and they’ll come back at me with another that completely trumps my already high appreciation of their work. This week is such a case with director Gabriel Tupinamba and his lyrical study on repetition Das Dores. Das Dores Materials Stills Script Storyboard, Shotlist & Lighting Plan Showlinks Nonada Filmes Das Dores Festivus Film [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website And the Colors Are Like Summer & Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba And the Colors Are Like Summer (2006) And the Colors Are Like Summer is a short film that deals with the passage from hate to love and with the place that violence and aggression have in the sexual and love discourse, specially when taken to its limits. Das Dores (2008) Das Dores tells the story of two [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 093: Waiting for the Guards & The Stuff of Life - Marc Hawker Given last week’s UK parliamentary vote for a 42 day detention period, I’m especially glad to have Marc Hawker of Dark Fibre Films join us this week to discuss the Amnesty commissioned ad spots Waiting for the Guards and The Stuff of Life, which are part of their Unsubscribe movement designed to united people concerned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waiting for the Guards & The Stuff of Life - Marc Hawker Waiting for the Guards (2008) Waiting For The Guards is the first of 3 films commissioned by Amnesty to highlight the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the “War on Terror”. The Directors approached the making of the film in a way that has never been done before, choosing to show the reality of Stress [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 092: English Language (With English Subtitles) - Tim Plester Tim Plester joins us this week to discuss his DVD released trilogy of shorts and directorial debut English Language (With English Subtitles), which he also wrote and stars in. English Language (With English Subtitles) Materials Stills & Storyboards Script Shotlist Music by Barbarossa Afterglow Music Promo Trailer Behind the Scenes Footage Showlinks timplester.com English Language (With English Subtitles) Blurring the Line KMIR6 Breakfast News Interview ‘Ant Muzak’, Blake? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 092: English Language (With English Subtitles) - Tim Plester Tim Plester joins us this week to discuss his DVD released trilogy of shorts and directorial debut English Language (With English Subtitles), which he also wrote and stars in. English Language (With English Subtitles) Materials Stills & Storyboards Script Shotlist Music by Barbarossa Afterglow Music Promo Trailer Behind the Scenes Footage Showlinks timplester.com English Language (With English Subtitles) Blurring the Line KMIR6 Breakfast News Interview ‘Ant Muzak’, Blake� ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website English Language (With English Subtitles) - Tim Plester English Language (With English Subtitles) (2007) A tenderly offbeat black-and-white romantic comedy… with subtitles. Meet Mulligan (a typically English man), Esther (his Scandinavian girlfriend), and the on-screen captions that happen to find themselves along for the ride. Related Posts The Upper Hand - Lana Schwarcz The Raftman’s Razor - Keith Bearden Filmstock #8 DN EP 092: English Language (With English Subtitles) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website English Language (With English Subtitles) - Tim Plester English Language (With English Subtitles) (2007) A tenderly offbeat black-and-white romantic comedy… with subtitles. Meet Mulligan (a typically English man), Esther (his Scandinavian girlfriend), and the on-screen captions that happen to find themselves along for the ride. Related Posts The Upper Hand - Lana Schwarcz The Raftman’s Razor - Keith Bearden Filmstock #8 DN EP 092: English Language (With English Subtitles) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN Special: Wholphin There’s so much great work out there that even if I spent the full 24 hours a day on Directors Notes I’d still only be scratching the surface, which is why I’m so pleased that the mighty Wholphin DVD magazine exists to bring the best of it straight into our homes every quarter. I managed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN Special: Wholphin There’s so much great work out there that even if I spent the full 24 hours a day on Directors Notes I’d still only be scratching the surface, which is why I’m so pleased that the mighty Wholphin DVD magazine exists to bring the best of it straight into our homes every quarter. I managed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 091: Honey Honey: Homeless Heart - Michael Johnson Our guest Michael Johnson used his skills as an advertising writer to pursue his true passion for filmmaking by writing his own scripts to cut his teeth on whilst leaveraging his ad contacts into potential new projects. We sit down with him to discuss his take on Honey Honey’s Homeless Heart in his latest music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 091: Honey Honey: Homeless Heart - Michael Johnson Our guest Michael Johnson used his skills as an advertising writer to pursue his true passion for filmmaking by writing his own scripts to cut his teeth on whilst leaveraging his ad contacts into potential new projects. We sit down with him to discuss his take on Honey Honey’s Homeless Heart in his latest music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honey Honey: Homeless Heart - Michael Johnson Honey Honey: Homeless Heart (2008) Something’s a going down in Michael Johnson’s promo for Honey Honey. Related Posts DN EP 091: Honey Honey: Homeless Heart - Michael Johnson Weightless - Erika Janunger Thunderheist: Jerk It - That Go The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone Moros Eros: On My Side - Jesse Ewles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honey Honey: Homeless Heart - Michael Johnson Honey Honey: Homeless Heart (2008) Something’s a going down in Michael Johnson’s promo for Honey Honey. Related Posts Moros Eros: On My Side - Jesse Ewles Menomena: Evil Bee - Stefan Nadelman Auto Pilot, Distortion, Ping Pong & Biker Mike - Mike Chan _grau - Robert Seidel What We’ve Found Out About Stem Cells - Richard Fenwick Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 090: Anthropology - Victor Solomon Victor Solomon is a director in the rare and enviable position of being able to initiate his own projects through self-funding. He joins us this week to discuss his latest work Anthropology, a collection of five short films based stories from the Dan Rhodes’ book of the same name. Anthropology Materials Storyboards Scripts Showlinks Victor Solomon The Lovemakers Faux Fox Dan Rhodes A Fine [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 090: Anthropology - Victor Solomon Victor Solomon is a director in the rare and enviable position of being able to initiate his own projects through self-funding. He joins us this week to discuss his latest work Anthropology, a collection of five short films based stories from the Dan Rhodes’ book of the same name. Anthropology Materials Storyboards Scripts Showlinks Victor Solomon The Lovemakers Faux Fox Dan Rhodes A Fine [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthropology - Victor Solomon Anthropology (2008) Victor Solomon’s Anthropology series of films adapted from Anthropology, a book of short stories by Dan Rhodes. Related Posts DN EP 090: Anthropology - Victor Solomon Film Eight - Dan Gitsham _grau - Robert Seidel What We’ve Found Out About Stem Cells - Richard Fenwick Virtuosi - Marcelo Garcia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthropology - Victor Solomon Anthropology (2008) Victor Solomon’s Anthropology series of films adapted from Anthropology, a book of short stories by Dan Rhodes. Related Posts DN EP 090: Anthropology - Victor Solomon Film Eight - Dan Gitsham _grau - Robert Seidel What We’ve Found Out About Stem Cells - Richard Fenwick Virtuosi - Marcelo Garcia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 089: Bendito Machine - Josse Malis Josse Malis joins us to discuss the first two episodes of his shadow play inspired ten part animation series Bendito Machine, which explore the ever problematic universal issues of power, corruption and religion. Showlinks Zumbakamera Bendito Machine Shadow Play Adobe FreeHand Adobe Flash AWN’s “Best of the Web” Showcase 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 089: Bendito Machine - Josse Malis Josse Malis joins us to discuss the first two episodes of his shadow play inspired ten part animation series Bendito Machine, which explore the ever problematic universal issues of power, corruption and religion. Showlinks Zumbakamera Bendito Machine Shadow Play Adobe FreeHand Adobe Flash AWN’s “Best of the Web” Showcase 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bendito Machine - Josse Malis Bendito Machine (2006) A primitive tale about power, corruption, religion and machines? as usual. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bendito Machine - Josse Malis Bendito Machine (2006) A primitive tale about power, corruption, religion and machines? as usual. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 088: All The Drunken Horsemen - Tomas Leach Director Tomas Leach joins us to discuss his feature documentary All The Drunken Horsemen, which saw him travel to the isolated Mayan town of Todos Santos in the mountains of Guatemala to capture the preparations for its legendary annual drunken horse race. Showlinks Tomas Leach 3 Minute Wonders FourDocs Fabrica Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 088: All The Drunken Horsemen - Tomas Leach Director Tomas Leach joins us to discuss his feature documentary All The Drunken Horsemen, which saw him travel to the isolated Mayan town of Todos Santos in the mountains of Guatemala to capture the preparations for its legendary annual drunken horse race. Showlinks Tomas Leach 3 Minute Wonders FourDocs Fabrica Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All The Drunken Horsemen - Tomas Leach All The Drunken Horsemen (2007) High in the mountains of Guatemala lies the small Mayan town of Todos Santos. Each year, on November 1st the town celebrates it’s legendary drunken horse race. This film follows Ramon as he prepares to race on the town’s holy day for the first time. He follows 9 days of prayer, preparation [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All The Drunken Horsemen - Tomas Leach All The Drunken Horsemen (2007) High in the mountains of Guatemala lies the small Mayan town of Todos Santos. Each year, on November 1st the town celebrates its legendary drunken horse race. This film follows Ramon as he prepares to race on the town’s holy day for the first time. He follows 9 days of prayer, preparation [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 087: Sizzlean - Scott Keiner This week we’re joined by Scott Keiner whose career has seen him direct TV pilots, music videos for bands such as OK Go and the recent short Sizzlean, which is a prequel to the complete feature script of the same name penned by Scott. Sizzlean will be screening in the Cannes short film corner 20th - [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 087: Sizzlean - Scott Keiner This week we’re joined by Scott Keiner whose career has seen him direct TV pilots, music videos for bands such as OK Go and the recent short Sizzlean, which is a prequel to the complete feature script of the same name penned by Scott. Sizzlean will be screening in the Cannes short film corner 20th - [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sizzlean - Scott Keiner Sizzlean (2008) In a time when the world is emptied out, and only a few lost souls remain, a group of children sets out on a quest. Led by the Pirate Sizzlean, and the Captain who tells him what to dream, the children are on a quest most hope never to face, for these children [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sizzlean - Scott Keiner Sizzlean (2008) In a time when the world is emptied out, and only a few lost souls remain, a group of children sets out on a quest. Led by the Pirate Sizzlean, and the Captain who tells him what to dream, the children are on a quest most hope never to face, for these children [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN Special: Joy Division - Grant Gee When I’m not working on Directors Notes you can normally find me trying to convince anyone and everyone that they really need a film podcast. CINECITY ‘07 actually listened and set me loose with a mic and contact details for some of their directors, which is how I got to spend the morning in Grant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN Special: Joy Division - Grant Gee When I’m not working on Directors Notes you can normally find me trying to convince anyone and everyone that they really need a film podcast. CINECITY ‘07 actually listened and set me loose with a mic and contact details for some of their directors, which is how I got to spend the morning in Grant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 086: Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton Jim Threapleton joins us to discuss his directorial début Extraordinary Rendition and the challenges of striking the correct balance of tone in a film that depicts the personal effects of a wrongly accused man caught up in a system with little regard for the rights of the individual. Extraordinary Rendition Materials Stills Showlinks Extraordinary Rendition Blog Trailer London’s Burning The Tell-Tale Heart Amnesty [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 086: Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton Jim Threapleton joins us to discuss his directorial d?but Extraordinary Rendition and the challenges of striking the correct balance of tone in a film that depicts the personal effects of a wrongly accused man caught up in a system with little regard for the rights of the individual. Extraordinary Rendition Materials Stills Showlinks Extraordinary Rendition Blog Trailer London’s Burning The Tell-Tale Heart Amnesty [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton Extraordinary Rendition (2007) A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later, he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton Extraordinary Rendition (2007) A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later, he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 085: Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin After many years working in the French film industry as an assistant director on over 35 features, Brice Cauvin decided that it was time for him to step out and direct his feature début Hotel Harabati, which despite (or perhaps due to) problems with financing he managed to complete on his own terms, remaining true [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 085: Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin After many years working in the French film industry as an assistant director on over 35 features, Brice Cauvin decided that it was time for him to step out and direct his feature d?but Hotel Harabati, which despite (or perhaps due to) problems with financing he managed to complete on his own terms, remaining true [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin Hotel Harabati (2006) While waiting to catch a train from Paris to Venice, French couple Philippe and Marion pick up a bag left behind by a polite, vaguely Middle Eastern man. Inside, they find neatly bound bundles of foreign currency; on the tag, it reads ‘Hotel Harabati.’ At the last moment, they decide not to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin Hotel Harabati (2006) While waiting to catch a train from Paris to Venice, French couple Philippe and Marion pick up a bag left behind by a polite, vaguely Middle Eastern man. Inside, they find neatly bound bundles of foreign currency; on the tag, it reads ‘Hotel Harabati.’ At the last moment, they decide not to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 084: Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things - Matt Strachan Director Matt Strachan joins us this week to discuss his switch from writing to directing on his self-penned short Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things. Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things Materials Budget Lounge Floorplan Moodboard Production Breakdown Production Timeline Script Showlinks Matt Strachan The Room Lime Pictures Raindance Panasonic AG-DVX100 Shooting People Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 084: Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things - Matt Strachan Director Matt Strachan joins us this week to discuss his switch from writing to directing on his self-penned short Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things. Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things Materials Budget Lounge Floorplan Moodboard Production Breakdown Production Timeline Script Showlinks Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things Matt Strachan The Room Lime Pictures Raindance Panasonic AG-DVX100 Shooting People Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things - Matt Strachan Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things (2008) Calum and Lucy, both twenty-something and “just good friends”, are forced to face up to the realities of life and love in a limbo landscape of their own memories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things - Matt Strachan Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things (2008) Calum and Lucy, both twenty-something and “just good friends”, are forced to face up to the realities of life and love in a limbo landscape of their own memories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 083: Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky Director Phil Grabsky has been working in the film industry for over 20 years, creating documentary programmes for BBC strands such as Timewatch and Reputations, as well as arts programmes for Channel Five. However, I first came into contact with Phil’s work through his 2003 feature documentary The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 083: Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky Director Phil Grabsky has been working in the film industry for over 20 years, creating documentary programmes for BBC strands such as Timewatch and Reputations, as well as arts programmes for Channel Five. However, I first came into contact with Phil’s work through his 2003 feature documentary The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky Escape From Luanda (2007) In Luanda, one of the world’s poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola’s only music school work towards their end-of-year concert. The Music School is Angola’s first and only school of its kind. It houses some 80 students, most of them desperately poor. Many face disapproval and outright rejection [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky Escape From Luanda (2007) In Luanda, one of the world’s poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola’s only music school work towards their end-of-year concert. The Music School is Angola?s first and only school of its kind. It houses some 80 students, most of them desperately poor. Many face disapproval and outright rejection [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 082: 1000 Journals - Andrea Kreuzhage As a producer with over 20 years experience in the business Andrea Kreuzhage was well aware of the advice against funding a pet project, but that didn’t stop her from selling her house to finance her directorial debut, the feature documentary 1000 Journals; an exploration in to the 1000 Journals project initiated in 2000 by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 082: 1000 Journals - Andrea Kreuzhage As a producer with over 20 years experience in the business Andrea Kreuzhage was well aware of the advice against funding a pet project, but that didn’t stop her from selling her house to finance her directorial debut, the feature documentary 1000 Journals; an exploration in to the 1000 Journals project initiated in 2000 by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1000 Journals - Andrea Kreuzhage 1000 Journals (2007) 1000 blank journals are passed from hand to hand throughout the world, collecting stories, pictures, collages — slices of the lives they touch. One came back, filled. Where are the other 999? 1000 Journals investigates their worldwide journeys, and chronicles the self-governed collaboration of thousands of random people who added to this global [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1000 Journals - Andrea Kreuzhage 1000 Journals (2007) 1000 blank journals are passed from hand to hand throughout the world, collecting stories, pictures, collages — slices of the lives they touch. One came back, filled. Where are the other 999? 1000 Journals investigates their worldwide journeys, and chronicles the self-governed collaboration of thousands of random people who added to this global [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 081: My Paper Mind - Javan Ivey It’s not often a director gets to come up with his own type of animation, but after experimenting with the Strata-cut method Javan Ivey combined his love of working with paper and developed a technique dubbed as Stratastencil on his experimental piece My Paper Mind. Showlinks Javan Ivey Indie Mogul interview Pratt Institute X-Acto Strata-cut animation Tunnel Kids Replacement Animation The Principles of Animation Adobe [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 081: My Paper Mind - Javan Ivey It’s not often a director gets to come up with his own type of animation, but after experimenting with the Strata-cut method Javan Ivey combined his love of working with paper and developed a technique dubbed as Stratastencil on his experimental piece My Paper Mind. Showlinks Javan Ivey Indie Mogul interview Pratt Institute X-Acto Strata-cut animation Tunnel Kids Replacement Animation The Principles of Animation Adobe [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Paper Mind - Javan Ivey My Paper Mind (2007) An experimental animation exploring the “Stratastencil” technique devised by director Javan Ivey. Inspired by the Stratacut technique, Stratastencil is an additive process. Stratacut removes material to reveal another layer, while this technique adds another layer while still showing the layer before it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Paper Mind - Javan Ivey My Paper Mind (2007) An experimental animation exploring the “Stratastencil” technique devised by director Javan Ivey. Inspired by the Stratacut technique, Stratastencil is an additive process. Stratacut removes material to reveal another layer, while this technique adds another layer while still showing the layer before it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 080: Gardens By the Bay - Squint/Opera Squint/Opera are well known for their work operating in the space between the film industry and architectural practice, realising commissions as hybrid visualisation/motion graphics pieces for their clients. Co-founder Jules Cocke joins us to discuss the company’s award winning piece for the 2006 Gardens by the Bay Master Plan Design Competition in Singapore. Showlinks Squint/Opera Gardens By [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 080: Gardens By the Bay - Squint/Opera Squint/Opera are well known for their work operating in the space between the film industry and architectural practice, realising commissions as hybrid visualisation/motion graphics pieces for their clients. Co-founder Jules Cocke joins us to discuss the company’s award winning piece for the 2006 Gardens by the Bay Master Plan Design Competition in Singapore. Showlinks Squint/Opera Gardens By [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gardens by the Bay - Squint/Opera Gardens by the Bay (2006) A film showing the development of the design ideas behind the winning entry to the landscape architecture competition in Singapore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gardens by the Bay - Squint/Opera Gardens by the Bay (2006) A film showing the development of the design ideas behind the winning entry to the landscape architecture competition in Singapore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 079: Menomena: Evil Bee - Stefan Nadelman Stefan Nadelman made a splash back in 2002 with his stills animated documentary Terminal Bar. Since then he’s gone on to create a host of personal, collaborative, and commercial work, and joins us to discuss his first outing into music videos with Menomena’s Evil Bee promo. Menomena: Evil Bee Materials Animatic Showlinks Tourist Pictures Sundance Film Festival Terminal Bar Adobe Flash Latin Alive Resfest VH1 Curious [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 079: Menomena: Evil Bee - Stefan Nadelman Stefan Nadelman made a splash back in 2002 with his stills animated documentary Terminal Bar. Since then he’s gone on to create a host of personal, collaborative, and commercial work, and joins us to discuss his first outing into music videos with Menomena’s Evil Bee promo. Menomena: Evil Bee Materials Animatic Showlinks Tourist Pictures Sundance Film Festival Terminal Bar Adobe Flash Latin Alive Resfest VH1 Curious [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Menomena: Evil Bee - Stefan Nadelman Menomena: Evil Bee (2006) Stefan Nadelman reveals the hard life of worker bees in his promo for Menomena’s Evil Bee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Menomena: Evil Bee - Stefan Nadelman Menomena: Evil Bee (2006) Stefan Nadelman reveals the hard life of worker bees in his promo for Menomena’s Evil Bee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 078: Garage - Lenny Abrahamson Following an almost interview at last year’s London Film Festival I finally got a chance to see Lenny Abrahamson’s second feature Garage which was the most successful film of 2007 in its native Ireland and critically well received throughout its festival run, picking up prizes along the way. Lenny joins us today to discuss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 078: Garage - Lenny Abrahamson Following an almost interview at last year’s London Film Festival I finally got a chance to see Lenny Abrahamson’s second feature Garage which was the most successful film of 2007 in its native Ireland and critically well received throughout its festival run, picking up prizes along the way. Lenny joins us today to discuss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Garage - Lenny Abrahamson Garage (2007) Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Garage - Lenny Abrahamson Garage (2007) Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 077: The Take-Away Shows - Vincent Moon Chances are that if you’re into music, but have had your fill of the sanctioned, glitzy, over produced pop promo you’ve at some point stumbled over the work of director Vincent Moon co-creator of The Take-Away Shows (Concerts A Emporter). Beginning back in his photography work and now in video, Vincent has re-define the approach [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 077: The Take-Away Shows - Vincent Moon Chances are that if you’re into music, but have had your fill of the sanctioned, glitzy, over produced pop promo you’ve at some point stumbled over the work of director Vincent Moon co-creator of The Take-Away Shows (Concerts A Emporter). Beginning back in his photography work and now in video, Vincent has re-define the approach [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Take-Away Shows - Vincent Moon The Take-Away Shows: #83.3 - Sidi Touré - Part 3 & #78.3 - Scout Niblett - Nevada You meet a band. You take them outside, in the streets, and ask them to play there, shoot the movie in one unique shot, whatever happens. Those are the Take-Away Shows, the weekly Video podcast from french weblog La [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Take-Away Shows - Vincent Moon The Take-Away Shows: #83.3 - Sidi Tour? - Part 3 & #78.3 - Scout Niblett - Nevada You meet a band. You take them outside, in the streets, and ask them to play there, shoot the movie in one unique shot, whatever happens. Those are the Take-Away Shows, the weekly Video podcast from french weblog La [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DN EP 076: Duelity - Boca & Ryan Uhrich Directors Boca & Ryan Uhrich describe their creative relationship as an ongoing tennis match in which each of them pushes the other to create the best work possible. Their animation Duelit