It's not often I experience the films we feature in their full cinematic glory, and even rarer that I also get face to face time with the directors, but of the many films we've covered on the show Marcy Garriott's feature documentary Inside the Circle - which opens a window into B-Boy culture, friendship and the challenges of growing up and finding your place in the world - definitely warranted the big screen experience. Marcy took some time out from promotion duties to discuss her approach to filmmaking.

Inside the Circle Materials
Notes for Casual Documentary Filmmaking Workshops

Showlinks
Inside the Circle
Inside the Circle MySpace
Still in Motion Interview
Sony HVR-Z1U
B-Boy City
Sony DSR PD-150
Sony DSR-PD170
SXSW
Children in Jail

• Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin' Convention Screening
• DN EP 083: Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky
• DN EP 071: Good Copy Bad Copy - Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen & Henrik Moltke
• DN EP 070: Routes - Alex Reuben

Inside the Circle (2007)
Capturing the raw power of a grassroots hip-hop movement, the award-winning documentary Inside the Circle tells the stories of strikingly talented b-boys Josh and Omar, former best friends who become rivals when they join competing dance crews. Immersed in the b-boy culture of defiant creativity, Omar rises to international renown, while Josh tangles with the law. Both of them struggle to keep dance at the center of their lives, and the “B-Boy City” competitive events thrown by visionary street dancer Romeo Navarro serve as emotional milestones in their journey to adulthood. Facing off in intense dance battles that mirror the larger events in their lives, Josh and Omar seek respect, meaning and identity “inside the circle.”

• DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin' Convention Screening
• Routes - Alex Reuben
• Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson
• Routes Hits a Cinema Near You

What happens when you're far from home and on-route to living your dream? Do you come back to start again with nothing to show for your years of effort when things get rough or do you hang on in the hope that success and the life you've imagined is just round the corner? Co-directed by Daneeta Loretta Saft and Patrick Jackson, Tokyo Cowboys follows the stories of four Gaijin living those very questions in seductive Japan. Daneeta joins us this week to discuss their feature debut.

Showlinks
The Elektrik Zoo
Tokyo Cowboys (The Blog)
Down in the Parish
Story Truths
The London Film School
Canon XL1S
Apple Final Cut Pro
Japan Film Festival
Little Rock Film Festival
Blood is Thicker Than Floodwater Article

• Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson
• INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin' Convention Screening
• DN Special: Joy Division - Grant Gee
• DN LFF07: The English Surgeon - Geoffrey Smith
• DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott

Tokyo Cowboys (2008)
Tokyo Cowboys follows the stories of four western men living long-term in Tokyo. The film's delicate and humorous portrait illuminates the price some pay for a taste of Tokyo's success.

• DN EP 096: Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson
• Routes - Alex Reuben
• Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• All The Drunken Horsemen - Tomas Leach

Director Duncan Bone joins us this week to discuss his multi-discipline career and recent move into music promos with the stop frame piece Not in a Million Lovers for band The Beangrowers.

The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers Materials
Production Sheet

Showlinks
duncanbone.com
The Beangrowers
Adobe After Effects

• The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone
• DN EP 079: Menomena: Evil Bee - Stefan Nadelman
• DN EP 042: Auto Pilot, Distortion, Ping Pong & Biker Mike - Mike Chan
• DN Ep 022: LIVE LOVE WORK PLAY - Thomas Atanazio
• Moros Eros: On My Side - Jesse Ewles

The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone (2008)
Duncan Bone's relationship stillsfest for The Beangrowers' Not in a Million Lovers.

• DN EP 095: The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers - Duncan Bone
• Moros Eros: On My Side - Jesse Ewles
• Menomena: Evil Bee - Stefan Nadelman
• Honey Honey: Homeless Heart - Michael Johnson
• Auto Pilot, Distortion, Ping Pong & Biker Mike - Mike Chan

Sometimes I go after a director for one film and they'll come back at me with another that completely trumps my already high appreciation of their work. This week is such a case with director Gabriel Tupinamba and his lyrical study on repetition Das Dores.

Das Dores Materials
Stills
Script
Storyboard, Shotlist & Lighting Plan

Showlinks
Nonada Filmes
Das Dores
Festivus Film Festival
Met Film School
Cannes Film Festival
Groundhog Day
Magic Realism
Sony HDW F900
Sofia Coppola
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

• And the Colors Are Like Summer & Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba
• DN EP 078: Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
• DN EP 069: Somewhere, Anywhere - Chris Dundon
• DN EP 067: Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten

And the Colors Are Like Summer (2006)
And the Colors Are Like Summer is a short film that deals with the passage from hate to love and with the place that violence and aggression have in the sexual and love discourse, specially when taken to its limits.

Das Dores (2008)
Das Dores tells the story of two teenagers that end up trapped in an abandoned petrol station while trying to run away from home. Their car ran out of fuel and they are looking for a way out of there. While they get a chance to reconsiderate if running away together is such a good idea, strange noises and events enwrapped them and it becomes apparent that beyond their actions lies another - always repeating - pattern.

• DN EP 094: Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba
• Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• Dead Bird - Brek Taylor & Clare Tinsley
• _grau - Robert Seidel
• Virtuosi - Marcelo Garcia

Given last week's UK parliamentary vote for a 42 day detention period, I'm especially glad to have Marc Hawker of Dark Fibre Films join us this week to discuss the Amnesty commissioned ad spots Waiting for the Guards and The Stuff of Life, which are part of their Unsubscribe movement designed to united people concerned with human rights abuses committed in the ‘war on terror'.

Waiting for the Guards & The Stuff of Life Materials
Stills
Waiting for the Guards Treatment
The Stuff of Life Treatment
The Stuff of Life Mood/Storyboard

Showlinks
Dark Fibre Films
Amnesty Unsubscribe Me
Living Goddess
Rize
David LaChapelle
Bartle Bogle Hegarty
Christian Aguilera - Dirty
Clowns in the Hood
Slamdance Festival
Drugstore
Sony HVR-Z1U
MOVIEtube
Phantom HD
Prime Focus UK
Sony PMW-EX1
Pirate Productions
Archive
Adam Freeland
CNN Report
Zaha Hadid

• Waiting for the Guards & The Stuff of Life - Marc Hawker
• It's Beatiful - Nicolas d'Haussy
• DN EP 086: Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton
• _grau - Robert Seidel
• What We've Found Out About Stem Cells - Richard Fenwick

Waiting for the Guards (2008)
Waiting For The Guards is the first of 3 films commissioned by Amnesty to highlight the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the “War on Terror”.

The Directors approached the making of the film in a way that has never been done before, choosing to show the reality of Stress Positions in as authentic a way as possible. They filmed a person who was put in Stress Positions for over a 6 hour period. There is no acting on the part of the “prisoner” – his pain and anguish are real.

This powerful film shows without a doubt that what the US administrations say is interrogation is really torture, and must be stopped.

The Stuff of Life (2008)
You are tied to a board, your ankles, wrists, chest and head strapped firmly down. The board is tilted 45 degrees, so that your head is lower than your feet. Water pours onto your face, flows up your nose, into your mouth, down your throat and fills your lungs and stomach. You gag, choke and struggle for breath. You feel as if you are about to drown. Throughout the ordeal an interrogator fires questions at you. The water only stops when you start to give the ‘right’ answers.

This is waterboarding.

Both Waiting for the Guards and The Stuff of Life were created for Amnesty International’s unsubscribe campaign - Sign up and find out more.

• DN EP 093: Waiting for the Guards & The Stuff of Life - Marc Hawker
• It's Beatiful - Nicolas d'Haussy
• DN EP 086: Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton
• _grau - Robert Seidel
• What We've Found Out About Stem Cells - Richard Fenwick