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YDA 2011: Georg Von Mitzlaff
Depilation. It’s a tough sell. At best a fiddly chore, at worst a painful bore – it requires some pretty flexible thinking to render hair removal appealing, let alone sexy. And yet Georg von Mitzlaff,...
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Searchlight: Omri Cohen
Omri Cohen blew our socks off with his Nike Yards film shot in Mumbai, his first major piece of work after being told he wasn’t going to cut the mustard at film school. Now just airing is his latest...
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YDA 2011: Andreas Roth
Andreas Roth never fails to impress. The up-and-coming director was already on our radar when we interviewed him in January and in June he took top prize in the the European Film School category at the...
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Searchlight: Julia Pott
London Royal College of Art graduate Julia Pott pauses from packing her bags for her move to New York where she has just signed to Hornet to talk to us about her animation process, ridiculous dancing...
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Searchlight: Kirsten Lepore
Those clever clogs at Caviar snapped up filmmaker, animator and illustrator Kirsten Lepore earlier this year. Here we find out out why… Tell us about your background – did you go to film school or did...
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Searchlight: Delphine Dussoubs
Growing up is never easy – and the young simian in Delphine Dussoubs‘ film Little Monkey isn’t just battling raging hormones, he has a ferocious fire fight to contend with too. Colourful and raw, the...
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Sign me up: Flyn Vibert
Lie back, take your tablets and soak up Manflu – full frame and up loud. Shot by newbie Flyn Vibert we find out why he switched his camera over from shooting fashion stills to video mode. We’re...
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YDA 2011: Y-C Tom Lee
When Y-C Tom Lee told his friends and collaborators that he wanted to shoot a hard-hitting spot about AIDS, they did everything they could to persuade him to tackle a less complex subject matter....
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Zombie Film School: Rotting Hill
So often talented film makers come out of schools with no idea of how the commercials industry really operates and with only a limited knowledge of the relationship between client, agency and film...
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Searchlight: Bevan Walsh
A schoolboy stumbles upon a hidden stash of naughty mags, but soon finds his new collection to be more of a curse than a blessing. Bevan Walsh’s short Love Does Grow on Trees has been picking up awards...
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Sign me up: Zwelseizwe Ntuli
In South Africa, Velocity executive producer Peter Carr started a commercial training programme six years ago at AFDA Film School and has since included the Vega School of Advertising where the...
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Searchlight: Carlos De Carvalho
Don’t squash bugs, it just ain’t worth the guilt. That’s the take-home message from the shadow puppet-inspired music Do I Have Power from director Carlos De Carvalho. We caught up with the...
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Searchlight: Hoku Uchiyama
Waaaaay back in the early days of the Young Director Awards in 2003, Hoku Uchiyama a college student from California’s Art Center College of Design won a category prize. It was for a drunk driving PSA...
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Searchlight: Messrs.
We are so excited about Messrs. And it`s not the slightly premature Christmas sugar rush talking. The multitalented collective of writers, directors and artists can seemingly turn their hand to...
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Catch up: Mark Tintner
We featured Mark Tintner’s first piece, a slick and sinster ad for Alessi, last year and we’re also rather impressed with his latest spot for Refuge, a charity fighting for the elimination of violence...
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Catch up: Justus Becker
It was a year ago when we featured the spec film of film student Justus Becker for Rimowa suitcases. We thought it was high time for our annual check up on what he’s been up to and were blown away by...
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Searchlight: Chloe Rodham
A lonely old Babushka frees her collection of decoupage birds; a greyhound takes flight; an ice cream seller looks for love in a seaside haar. There’s something a little bit murky and a little bit...
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The three P’s of music video filming
We love director Dougal Wilson. And we’re sure you do to. He knows how to press our emotional buttons without being soppy – just take a look at his John Lewis commercials – and his music videos are...
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Searchlight: Nick Scott
It’s a wonderful world in the land of Nick Scott recently. He’s just signed to Crossroads in London and his film School Portrait has hit way over a million views since going viral over the festive...
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Searchlight: Stephen Kang
Stephen is so new as a director that his day job is still burning reels and fixing Curious Film’s website. But his short films are beginning to be noticed on the festival circuits in Asia and...
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