Directors Notes

Sep 01, 2025 — 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...

Aug 15, 2025 — 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...

Aug 03, 2025 — 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...

Jul 22, 2025 — 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...

Jun 29, 2025 — 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...

Jun 16, 2025 — 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...

Jun 09, 2025 — 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...

May 26, 2025 — 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...

Apr 13, 2025 — 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...

Apr 07, 2025 — 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...