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After the resounding success of last year’s launch, Directors Notes is thrilled to present our 2025 edition of the WeAreDN Awards. Over the past few weeks we have painstakingly whittled down our 2024 official submissions to a choice list of 28 nominated films, across 9 categories – Drama, Comedy, Buckle Up, New Talent, Animation, Documentary, Music Video, Dance & British – for our expert industry jury – including last year’s only double award winner – to vote on.

Join us at Fomo House Shoreditch clubhouse on the 1st of May at 7pm, along with our nominated filmmakers, cast, crew and industry professionals for a screening of the winning films, celebratory drinks, networking and, most importantly, dancing.

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Please email contact@directorsnotes.com to be added to our ticket standby list.

Our Jury

Dave Taylor-Matthews is an experienced film festival organiser and curator based in Bristol, with over a decade of expertise in film exhibition. Currently serving...

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.

BAMcinématek

Out 1, “the great cinematic happening of 2015,” is finally in theaters, with tickets for weekend-long marathon sessions (the ideal viewing method) available.

Museum of Modern Art

“To Save and Project” begins its 13th year of bringing audiences essential, under-the-radar cinema. The first highlight: Samuel Fuller‘s Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street, the director’s cut...

It’s not exactly Ozploitation, but director Rolf de Heer’s outrageous “experiment” (his words) packs in as much violent mayhem, weird sex and non-p.C. material as any exploitation film you can think of. Its unusual deployment of 31 different directors of photography guarantees a variety of looks as our shut-in hero makes his first grimly comic foray into the outside world. Has some similarities to Paul Bartel’s last film, the similarly obscure Shelf Life. Unreleased theatrically in the Us, it came out on DVD in 2005. Nsfw.