Directors Notes

United Kingdom

festival

Since its inception in 2006, Directors Notes has remained steadfastly committed to our mission statement of: Delivering the What, How & Why of the world’s best independent filmmaking. We have upheld this mission through our meticulous curation process and collaboration with filmmakers. Our daily in-depth feature interviews unveil the painstaking production journeys behind award-winning films, providing a worldwide audience of industry professionals, festival curators and dedicated cinephiles with a detailed look behind the scenes of the best short films being made each year.

Selected short films are eligible to compete in the WeAreDN Awards across 9 categories –
Drama, Comedy, Music Video, Documentary, Animation, Buckle Up, Dance, New Talent, British

Entry fee: 
Short Form (under 40 minutes): £47 / £39 (FilmFreeway Gold) 

Feature Film (over 40 minutes): £77 / £69 (FilmFreeway Gold)

MarBelle

(Festival Director / Editor in Chief)

MarBelle is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Directors Notes, a BIFA accredited film platform which has been cracking the code of award-winning filmmaking since 2006 through considered curation and in-depth interviews that reveal the production stories of the planet’s most talented independent filmmakers for a worldwide audience.