Directors Notes
Summary: Directors Notes is a weekly podcast dedicated to independent filmmaking. Each week we feature in-depth interviews with 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, documentaries and experimental art pieces, whilst our guests reveal just how great films are made.
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Podcasts:
Director Johanna Schwartz joins DN with her feature-length documentary 'They Will Have to Kill Us First' - a film which charts the defiant spirit of Malian musicians willing to risk their lives for the love of their art.
Dir. Joseph Sims-Dennett talks to DN about the anxieties of building a directing career and how he took things back to the self-initiated basics for his second feature, the dark horror mystery 'Observance'.
DN sat down with Josh Mond to discuss the inner workings of the Borderline Films’ partnership and how he went about constructing a visual language that would trap an audience inside the claustrophobic internal turmoil of the titular character in his debut feature 'James White'.
The halcyon days of an endless summer free from adult supervision play host to Felix Thompson’s debut feature King Jack. DN grabbed Thompson for an interview at the London Film Festival to talk the Sundance Creative Producing Labs, the power of pitching and why he wanted Jack to experience a ‘moral’ rather than ‘pure’ victory.
The DN podcast makes a glorious return with a series of interviews recorded at the 59th BFI London Film Festival - First in the hot seat is Director Rene Pannevis discussing his squabbling car thief short 'Jacked'.
Sitting on the opening panel of the Glasgow Short Film Festival’s day long Symposium with Suzanne van der Lingen, Professor Richard Raskin & Jorge Rivero, MarBelle took part in a discussion exploring the role and form of short film criticism.
We talk to Desiree Akhavan about her theatre roots, embracing her true comedic voice as a director and how post-production persistence eventually won out in her emotionally biographical and very personal debut feature 'Appropriate Behaviour'.
Michelle Heighway’s feature documentary Mr Somebody? unearths the life and times of Britain’s most famous eccentric, Jake Mangle-Wurzel. Michelle joins us to discuss how her 6 year passion project grew into the unlikeliest of friendships.
DN caught up with director Michael Tully to get the full funky fresh lowdown on the blending of table tennis and Hip Hop in his modern day 80s movie, 'Ping Pong Summer'.
In his action packed crime feature debut 'Son of a Gun', Julius Avery explores themes of masculinity and belonging through the adrenaline soaked lens of a high tension heist. Avery tells us how it all came together.
DN sits down with director Zee Ntuli to discuss his high octane feature debut 'Hard to Get' and why he wants his film to break away from the legacy of yesterday's South African cinema.
Franco Lolli's 'Gente de Bien' depicts the fractured relationship between a troubled boy & his estranged father set against the backdrop of a socially divided Bogotá. We caught up with Lolli for an interview about his feature debut.
Daniel Ribeiro’s debut feature 'The Way He Looks' tenderly explores the awakening sexuality of a blind teenage as he discovers first love. DN speaks to Ribeiro about how his depiction of a blind perspective shaped a variety of production decisions.
We sat down with director Petter Sattler at the London Film Festival to discuss his exploration of the uncertainty of guilt and innocence within the walls of Guantanamo Bay in his debut feature 'Camp X-Ray'.
We joined director Saverio Costanzo at the London Film Festival to discuss 'Hungry Hearts', the tale of a couple's relationship put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
