CC07 EP 12: Addictive TV Closing Night Party

Posted on: Monday 3 December / 3AM

Well, tonight was indeed the final CINECITY event for this year but the Addictive TV team made sure that we all went out fighting. Thanks to everyone who came down to the party and for any of you who want to see what you missed, click on the picture above to watch a clip of the boys in action.

Until next year...

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 11: Routes - Alex Reuben

Posted on: Saturday 1 December / 9AM

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Taking inspiration from Harry Smith’s compilation, Anthology of American Folk Music, Alex Reuben's dance road-movie ROUTES is a voyage of discovery through the lesser-known forms of American culture and the extraordinary dancing Americans of the Deep South. We caught up with Alex at the launch of South East Dance's Dance for Camera Festival.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 10: Dance For Camera Podcast

Posted on: Friday 30 November / 8AM

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One of the strands of this year's CINECITY programme that we're most proud of is our new partnership with Sout East Dance, which has enabled us to include the Dance For Camera Festival 2007 as part of CINECITY. We spent some time finding out just what Dance For Camera means to Head of Screen Dance Vicky Bloor, and two of the artists included in the festival.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 09: Joy Division - Grant Gee

Posted on: Friday 30 November / 2AM

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Filmmaker Grant Gee is well know for his work on music promos as a director, cinematographer and producer and perhaps must recognised for his 1998 Radiohead tour documentary, Meeting People Is Easy. His new project JOY DIVISION is an exploration of the iconic band and the city of Manchester which itself had a role in shaping their unique sound. We spent a morning with Grant to discuss the project.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 08: Cineville - Online Distribution

Posted on: Thursday 29 November / 5AM

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Brighton's Lighthouse regularly holds an evening called Cineville, which brings together filmmakers and industry professionals to discuss issues and share ideas vital to getting films made and seen. As part of CINECITY, a Cineville dedicated to online film distribution brought together a panel of Andrew Sparrow (New Media Lawyer and Author of Film & Television Distribution & The Internet: A Legal Guide For The Media Industry), Tracey Gardiner (Fulcrum TV and Producer of SURVEILLANCE), Heather Millard (Film Sales & Distribution, Spier Films) and Marie Foulston (Online Co-ordinator, Soda Pictures) with Screen South's Miranda Robinson chairing the event.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma

Posted on: Wednesday 28 November / 6AM

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The third film in CINECITY's unofficial Coming of Age quartet, director Celine Sciamma talks to MarBelle of Directors Notes about jumping in to the deep end of directing with her début feature WATER LILIES

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 06: Addictive TV

Posted on: Wednesday 28 November / 6AM

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With only a few CINECITY days left ahead of us instead of feeling glum, I put a call in to Graham Daniels and Toll, better known as Addictive TV, to see what audio/visual remix goodness they have in store for the CINECITY closing party.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 05: Import Export - Ulrich Seidl

Posted on: Tuesday 27 November / 4AM

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Any film festival worth its salt knows how to programme films that challenge as well as entertain an audience. That's certainly the case with director Ulrich Seidl's unflinching portrait of New Europe, IMPORT EXPORT. We caught up with Ulrich to discuss his approach to creating stories focussed on the hardships of life.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 04: Q&A Battle for Haditha-Nick Broomfield

Posted on: Monday 26 November / 3AM

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Although traditionally considered a documentary director, Nick Broomfield's new film BATTLE FOR HADITHA, is a dramatic retelling of the events surrounding the Haditha killings and follows his previous dramatisation of real life tragedy, GHOSTS, which played as part of CINECITY 2006. We were happy to welcome Nick back to CINECITY and left him in the capable hands of film programmer Jason Wood for the post screening Q&A.

- Thanks to Esther at the Duke of York's for recording the Q&A's audio and images.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 03: Q&A O Zelador - Daren Bartlett

Posted on: Friday 23 November / 2AM

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The Sallis Benney Theatre played host to the UK première of Daren Bartlett's Brazilian shot O Zelador, an exploration of the life of Mestre Russo and his use of Capoeira as a philosophy to help him endure a life fraught with hardships and danger. Duke of York's film programmer Jason Wood presented the Q&A which you can hear in this podcast episode.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 02: Garbage Warrior - Oliver Hodge

Posted on: Wednesday 21 November / 7AM

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In this episode of the CINECITY podcast we catch up with Brighton-based filmmaker Oliver Hodge, whose directorial début GARBAGE WARRIOR explores the extraordinary story of Michael Reynolds, the radical US architect and originator of the ‘Earthship’.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.

CC07 EP 01: Nick Cave

Posted on: Friday 9 November / 11PM

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Welcome to the first instalment of the 2007 CINECITY Film Festival podcast.

For this year’s first CINECITY Podcast, we kick things off with an interview with author and musician (and CINECITY patron) Nick Cave, who sat down with author and film programmer, Jason Wood, to talk about the process of composing the soundtrack of Andrew Dominik’s, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD with his long-term collaborator Warren Ellis. The film previews during CINECITY on Fri 16 Nov.

The soundtrack is available now from Mute Records.

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The Cinecity podcast is created in association with Directors Notes, the weekly film podcast dedicated to The What, How & Why of Independent Filmmaking.