All Features articles – Page 262
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FeaturesScreenTech: Disappearing acts
Photo-real humans are now regularly used in VFX-heavy films but ensuring it is seamless and invisible is a tricky business. John Hazelton reports.
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Features...So that was Cannes 2016
From barefoot stars championing gender equality to the arrival of virtual reality and a noisy Palme d’Or debate, Melanie Goodfellow reflects on what went down on the Croisette this year.
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FeaturesBig film, big data: how analytics is shaping the business
Data analysis is changing the landscape of an industry in which experience and instinct are still heavily relied on, but the analysts argue more can be done.
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FeaturesEdinburgh goes platinum
As the world’s longest continually running festival marks a very special anniversary, Edinburgh’s artistic director Mark Adams talks Michael Rosser through this year’s energetic line-up and Wendy Mitchell spotlights the event’s Finland focus.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest: Filmmakers show Cuba in transition
British Council supports a delegation of three emerging Cuban filmmakers, and one Colombian filmmaker with a Cuban project, to attend Sheffield Doc/Fest with their new works that explore Cuba in its moment of transition.
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FeaturesQ&A: 'Cameraperson', Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson is an acclaimed documentary cinematographer who has travelled the globe for 25 years with leading documentary film-makers including Laura Poitras and Michael Moore.
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FeaturesQ&A: 'Notes On Blindness', Peter Middleton and James Spinney
James Spinney and Peter Middleton have lived and breathed Notes on Blindness - a cross-platform project that details a professor’s descent into blindness - since its humble beginnings as a short film series that was developed in 2010.
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FeaturesThe crest of nWave: Ben Stassen interview
Ben Stassen, the founder of Brussels-based nWave, has established his company as a European animation powerhouse backed by Studiocanal. It is now looking to conquer the US with The Wild Life.
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Features'The Red Turtle': the story behind Studio Ghibli's first European co-production
The Red Turtle is the result of a collaboration between Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit and the iconic Studio Ghibli.
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FeaturesAnnecy: the big draw
Annecy’s spectacular setting and convivial environment make it one of the most popular events on the circuit. But just how good is it for doing real business? Geoffrey Macnab reports.
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FeaturesKen Loach: Keeper of the flame
Interviewed in the Wardour Street offices of his company Sixteen Films on a damp June morning, Loach is still clearly delighted at having won his second Palme d’Or last month for I, Daniel Blake.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest Q&A: Josh Kriegman, 'Weiner'
Kriegman discusses his documentary Weiner, which he co-directed with Elyse Steinberg, about the mayoral campaign of Anthony Weiner.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest: VR projects highlight migrant crisis
Screen spoke to Sheffield Doc/Fest curator Mark Atkin about the festival’s Alternate Realities programme.
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FeaturesBritish Council welcomes Palestinian delegation to Doc/Fest
British Council partners with FilmLab: Palestine to send five Palestinian delegates to this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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FeaturesAardman, BBC talk VR collaboration 'We Wait'
Placing the viewer in a boat of migrants travelling from Turkey to Greece, the virtual reality experience marks a first for both the BBC and Aardman.
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FeaturesHBO doc chief Sheila Nevins reveals subjects she wants to explore
HBO Documentary Films president to receive Creative Leadership Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest
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FeaturesDocWorks brings together UK and Ukraine filmmakers
British Council partners with Sheffield Doc/Fest and Docudays UA on the training and mentoring programme.
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FeaturesCliff Martinez talks scoring 'The Neon Demon' and "keeping it cool"
Ahead of the summer rollout of Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, Cliff Martinez spoke to Screen about the film’s score.
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FeaturesGabriel Cowan, ‘They Call Us Monsters’
The producer and co-founder of New Artists Alliance talks to Alec Govi about the documentary about California’s juvenile sentencing laws and the people they affect.
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FeaturesMaria Govan, 'Play The Devil'
Ahead of the world premiere on June 4 at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Bahamian talks to Jeremy Kay about her high-stakes follow-up to her Toronto 2008 selection Rain.