Tag: Director


  • “It’s real people’s stories I want to tell” – An interview with Keep Busy Productions founder, Kate Briggs-Price

    It’s been a busy time for Southampton Alumni Kate Briggs-Price. Their recent film, Social Cues, won the award for Best Film at this year’s Southampton University Student Film Festival, and has recently been selected to show at The First-Time Filmmaker Showcase, a quarterly event aimed at showcasing emerging talent from around the world. This is an amazing […]

  • Review: UoS Student Film Festival 2019

    Culture Editor Ellis reviews the Student Film Festival 2019.

  • In Criticism of the Hollywood Blockbuster

    Has the hollywood blockbuster lost its touch? Ollie Webber investigates…

  • Director In Focus: The Russo Brothers

    The Russo Brothers have a life beyond Marvel, says Sophie Trenear.

  • ‘With animation the scene can take a life of its own’: An interview with directors of the Oscar nominated Anomalisa

    Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson are the directors of 2015’s Anomalisa; based on a play of the same name, it is a masterfully created stop motion picture in which a lonely help author Michael (voiced by actor David Thewlis) sees everyone the same until he meets a certain special woman, Lisa (voiced by Jennifer Jason Leigh), […]

  • “If you can identify with characters on screen there is a kind of solace in the fact that it’s not just you”: An interview with Rayna Campbell

    Director Rayna Campbell’s latest venture, Lapse of Honour, sees her take a step backwards to behind the camera where she tells the tale of a modern-day, urban romance between teenagers caught up in a whirlpool of drugs, abuse and teenage pregnancy in Manchester’s Moss Side. Selected for several film festivals, it features faces familiar to […]

  • Matthew Vaughn is working on a Kick-Ass prequel, focusing on Hit-Girl and Big Daddy

    Kick-Ass and Kingsman director, Matthew Vaughn has announced he wants to make a prequel based on Hit-Girl and Big Daddy.