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Thomas Pons Transports Augmented Reality from Japan’s Mountains to Screen in ‘Animals: A Black & White Journey’

Thomas Pons takes us on the production journey from augmented reality to screen for his multi-format, monochrome short ‘Animals: A Black & White Journey’

Jim Cummings – Thunder Road

Jim Cummings‘ single continuous take short Thunder Road has been blowing up the festival scene and even received support from The Boss when Cummings wrote an open letter to Springsteen requesting music rights for the online release. Seconds into the film, it’s clear that praise is well placed – you’ve never seen grief expressed quite like this before. Lorem …

Riding the Line Between Documentary & Music Video in John Merizalde’s Hybrid Roller Rink Short ‘Cascade’

DN caught up with John Merizalde to discover how he went about immortalising Atlanta roller rink Cascade in his documentary meets music video for SG Lewis track ‘Holding Back’.

Celebrating Camera Nostalgia in Andrea Barone’s Neon Fantasy Fashion Short ‘POLAROIDREAM©’

Andrea Barone shares how the demise of a beloved film stock led to ‘POLAROIDREAM©’, his immortalisation of fashion photography and the polaroid camera.

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How the Bra was Invented

Jessica Oreck puts her paper craft skills to charming using in How the Bra was Invented, the launch episode for TED-Ed’s new ongoing Moments of Vision series.

There Again

Drawing on her own experiences and the experiences of those around her, Vera Babida’s There Again illustrates the repetitive and empty cycle of clicks and swipes that has come to typify modern dating. Babida shares her production process in these making of posts.

Jessica Barclay Lawton Finds Compassion in the Arms of a Stranger in Touching Short ‘We Keep on Dancing’

DN talks to Director Jessica Barclay Lawton & Writer Rhys Mitchell about their surprisingly tender empathetic short ‘We Keep on Dancing’.

Ryan Moody Chronicles the Lives of School Shooting Victims in his Powerful Nonpartisan Short ‘Obituaries‘

DN speaks to Director Ryan Moody about reframing the focus of mass shootings to the lives of the victims and those they leave behind in his new short ‘Obituaries’.

Shell

https://vimeo.com/170583296 “Death is a disease, growing from the inside beneath the Shell. Cursed blessings trickling down tubes, pushing hope through weak veins. Waiting for blissful Heaven to return. Heaven is Hell.” Daniel Ahrens personifies cancer in all its patient maliciousness in powerfully dark short Shell.

Bloody Revenge is the Order of the Day in The Halsall Brothers’ ‘100 Bullets: Dead Ghosts’ Web Series

Filmmaking siblings The Halsall Brothers return to DN with ‘100 Bullets: Dead Ghosts’, a web series based on the celebrated comic which relocates the attaché case action to the totalitarian domain of North Korea.

Anna Maguire Makes a Declaration of Relationship Independence in ‘She Would Move the Tree Rather More to the Middle’

From well meaning parental wishes to the dominance of ‘happy ever after’ endings, the idea of the unity of the romantic couple is pretty much a universally lauded concept and something we often feel compelled to throw ourselves into with reckless abandon. But when such a relationship ends, how do you disentangle the ‘I’ which …

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