The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmakiing
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No matter where you are in the film festival landscape – from eager first timer to seasoned award winning pro, or on the other side of the equation, organising your first screening for the local community or a mammoth A-lister like Sundance or TIFF setting the cinematic agenda for this film festival season to come, then one platform alone looms large above all others, FilmFreeway . Evolving from a…
This week we’re joined by BAFTA winning filmmaker Victoria Mapplebeck to discuss her feature documentary Motherboard which transforms 20 years of solo parenting her son Jim into a groundbreaking work of cinematic self-portraiture as it charts two decades of life—from the shock of an unplanned pregnancy to the joys and challenges of raising a child alone, navigating cancer treatment, and weathering…
We recently sat down with Anna Smith – broadcaster, film critic and co-founder of the Girls on Film podcast and awards . Known for her feminist film criticism and advocacy, Anna has spent her career carving out space for women’s voices. In our interview, we cover the breadth of her career and the shifting dynamics of modern film criticism. [ Watch/Read the full interview ] Head to Directors Notes…
DN first had the pleasure of speaking to filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari back in 2011, following the SXSW screening of Attenberg , a film which cemented her position as a linchpin of the Greek New Wave. A couple weeks ago, ahead of its UK cinema release, we sat down together once again to discuss her latest feature Harvest , an adaptation of Jim Crace’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, which stars…
This week we’re bringing you Nimi’s interview with writer/director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade , whose debut feature Cactus Pears – a tender, life-affirming portrait of grief and queer love unfolding in a rural Indian village – won Sundance’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic back in January, the first indian film to ever do so, and a couple of days after this interview was recorded added the…
Last Monday saw the British TV Broadcaster Channel 4 release Beth – a project billed as its first ever digital original drama , which was not only broadcast traditionally on linear TV as well as on Channel 4 Streaming , but also arrived for audiences first on Channel 4’s YouTube . Ahead of that, DN friend Nimi Raja sat down with Beth writer/director Uzo Oleh and producer Yaw Basoah for a chat…
In this episode we’re joined by Daisy-May Hudson whom we last spoke to as part of our London Film Festival coverage alongside co-director Sophie Compton for their feature documentary Holloway . Today, Daisy-May returns as the writer-director of feature drama Lollipop , which stars a captivating Posy Sterling as a young woman newly released from prison after serving four months, who is forced to…
Back in October, we headed to the Bolton Film Festival (a favourite, regular stop for us on the UK film festival circuit) to sit on the jury as one of the partners for the inaugural Slick Films Fund live pitch event. Of the five Filmmakers pitching their projects in the hopes of walking away with the £10K Grand Prize, it was Bradford-based filmmaker Jordon Scott Kennedy’s estate-set, kitchen-sink…
Self-funded with a minuscule budget of just £150,000 and shot on 16mm in Laos with non-actors and a skeleton crew who had to contend with snakes, poisoned well water and a mid-production camera break down due to the heat, writer/director Joshua Trigg’s feature debut Satu – Year of the Rabbit is pretty much the epitome of independent filmmaking. With Satu about to finish up its UK cinema tour,…
This episode marks the last of our Oscar winning short film director interviews and features Sarah chat with Molly O’Brien , who joined DN a couple weeks before the Academy Awards to take us inside her move from producer to director for her Netflix acquired documentary short The Only Girl in the Orchestra , which follows the trailblazing career of musician Orin O’Brien and her beloved double…
