Dirty Towel

Writer/Director Callie Carpinteri recounts the motivations that led her and co-writer/actor Emma Parks to gather a female headed crew of collaborators to dive into the fraught topics of sex, generational shame, and self-worth in Dirty Towel - a coming-of-age comedic drama about a teenage girl grappling with feelings of shame and guilt after having sex for the first time.

Moncalvo

Crafted for Jacob Jonas The Company's always impressive ongoing films.dance project in response to parallel personal events, Nikita Kuzmenko delves into the process of conjuring community and catharsis with co-director Tanu Muiño through a synergistic marriage of dance and cinematography in their therapeutic 16mm short Moncalvo.

Harvest

Making a most welcome return to DN Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari reveals the beautiful paradox of building a strong community behind the camera to capture a community’s destruction onscreen for Harvest - her new 16mm shot feature starring Caleb Landry Jones, where fellowship, tradition and certainty all unravel for the inhabitants of an idyllic rural Scottish village over the course of seven hallucinatory days in the face of relentless economic forces.

Goose

Writer/Director Ethan Edwards discusses finding the perfectly balanced dark secret and why he avoided traditional rehearsals to craft an authentic battle of wills for power struggle short Goose, where a novelist immortalises an old friend's disclosed in confidence past for her own personal gain.