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DN EP 155: The VICE Guide to Liberia – Shane Smith & Andy Capper

I’m very pleased to welcome Andy Capper back to the show, to discuss the journey he and VICE founder, Shane Smith, took into the dangerous heart of Liberia for the latest revelatory film in The VICE Guide to… series. Showlinks VBS CNN Presents VBS.TV Liberia Lariam William Bennett / Cut Hands Jihad Milkshake Related Posts The VICE Guide to Liberia – Shane Smith & [...]

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The VICE Guide to Liberia (2010) VBS travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers [...]

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It’s an oft quoted phrase that ‘Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity’, well this week’s guest Fede Alvarez is certainly living proof of that. After working away on his pet ‘robots attack’ SFX project for a couple of years, Fede cashed in on the Facebook built, viral hype surrounding his short Panic Attack [...]

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Panic Attack! (2009) Giant robots invade Montevideo! Related Posts White Red Panic – Ayz Waraich The West Side – Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman The Shovel – Nick Childs The Patterns Trilogy – Jamie Travis The Leafcatcher – Leo Sedgley

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8 people with 5 instruments from 4 Continents speaking 3 languages for 1 song. Related Posts The Take-Away Shows – Vincent Moon Taxi!! Rockin’ Brooklyn – Wojtek Bozyk Place – Matt Clugston Mogwai – Burning

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Eddie White, co-director of the beat poetry meets Arabic Jazz, kidnapped felines short The Cat Piano, joins us to discuss the film’s creation and the tricky journey through film festival submissions, wins and eligibility rules to make it to the pre Oscar nomination short list. Showlinks The People’s Republic of Animation The Cat Piano The Cat Piano Facebook [...]

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The Cat Piano (2009) In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious dark figure emerges, kidnapping the town’s singers for his twisted musical plans, the poet must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune that threatens to destroy the city. Related Posts _grau – [...]

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Get out there make the film you want, with the kit you have to hand and recognition will follow. Despite sounding like a fairytale that indie filmmakers tell each other during the tough times, director Marc Price did just that for his debut zombie feature COLIN, which not only picked up a trail of buzz [...]

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I’m joined this week by director Ivo Gormley, whose documentary feature Us Now explores the ways in which Internet communities are able to share knowledge and form intelligent, collective decisions, and how this could translate to the governing of our lives and society as a whole. Showlinks Us Now Ivo’s Twitter The Us Now Global Screening Project Think Public CouchSurfer Mumsnet Royal Society [...]

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Us Now (2008) Us Now takes a look at how the internet could allow us to do away with politicians and run the government ourselves. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government for ever. Related Posts We Dreamed America – Alex Walker Tokyo Cowboys – [...]

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COLIN (2009) Colin is bitten by a zombie; he dies and returns as one of the undead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse. Through his encounters with objects, places and people, we learn who Colin was and more pertinently, what he has now become. Related posts:ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving [...] Related posts:ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip – Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann DN EP 106: ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip – Simon Gesre ...

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After their successful collaboration on the decaying seaside town documentary Blackpool: Las Vegas of the North, directors Andy Capper & Leo Leigh have joined forces again and hit the streets of Swansea to produce their second film for VBS’ Rule Britannia series, Swansea Love Story. They both (separately) join us on the show this week [...]

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Swansea Love Story (2009) Swansea Love Story, is the newest installment of VBS’ Rule Britannia series, and follows young heroin users in the city, their families and their daily routines. Related Posts We Dreamed America – Alex Walker Tokyo Cowboys – Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson They Turned Our Desert Into Fire – Mark Brecke The Super Noble Brothers – [...]

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Despite the open mind I try to always bring to cinema, I have to admit that the term ‘British gangster film’ makes my heart drop involuntarily as I brace myself for a parade of wide boys with imaginatively descriptive names such as Fingers Charlie, running round with shooters, spouting Mockney. Director Ben Wheatley has shown [...]

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Down Terrace (2009)Bill and Karl have just got out of jail free but all is not well at Down Terrace. The family business just isn’t working out and Karl’s had more than he can take of his old man’s philosophising and preaching. Karl’s girlfriend is pregnant – by him? Who knows… Either way…a little information [...]

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Tuesday – 1st December – 8pm – Sallis Benney Theatre   So once again it seems that the great films we curate here on Directors Notes refuse to be contained by our humble site and are making a break for the silver screen. This time round we’re honoured that CINECITY, the Brighton Film Festival, with whom DN [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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