Today’s interview guest is director Jon Bryant Crawford, whose short film Dog Meet Goose is awkward, uncomfortable cinema at its best. We sat down with Jon to find out what it’s like to have actors turn up to casting just to tell you how offensive your script is and the joy of creating a piece of cinema powerful enough to make audiences squirm in their seats.

DN311: Dog Meet Goose - Jon Bryant Crawford

In his dramatic short Seagulls, director Martin Smith explores the superficial yet insurmountable cultural bonds which prevent a newly arrived young showman from finding a place amongst his local peers. Ahead of Seagulls’ world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival – where it will screen on the 10th, 12th, 13th & 14th February – we sat down with Martin to discuss the importance of authenticity to his process and why a watery jump could have spelt the end of his directing career.

DN314: Seagulls - Martin Smith

Andrew W Jones returns to DN with his rock n roll musical featuring the Techno Glove-o-Love wielding, transdimensional astronaut Doctor Glamour. We discuss why having a crew with absolute confidence, faith and unquestioning loyalty to the director may not be the blessing you’d imagine.

DN238: Doctor Glamour – Andrew W Jones

Set against the majestic, rugged backdrop of the Icelandic landscape, Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s short Whale Valley depicts the powerful bond held by two brothers. Guðmundur joins us to discuss how Whale Valley grew for an imagine of brotherly ‘rough love’ and how an extensive pre-production period freed him from over thinking on set and opened up the possibilities for inspiration.

DN315: Whale Valley - Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson

A director we’ve been watching with great interest here on DN, Rob Savage’s work consistently grabs our attention. That’s why I asked him to join us on the podcast so I could discover how it all began at the tender age of 18 when he wrote, directed, edited, shot and co-produced his debut feature Strings, which depicts those quiet, awkward moments of teenage relationships we rarely get to witness on screen.

DN316: Strings - Rob Savage

With Lewis Arnold's short film 'Echo' being released online just over a week ago, it seemed the perfect excuse to delve even deeper into the director's time at the National Film and Television School and the creation of his repetitive compulsion narrative.

DN317: Echo - Lewis Arnold

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