Articles by David Chaudoir
Anna Biller interview - “The Love Witch” and “Viva” director
Anna Biller is a singular filmmaker. An auteur, who writes, directs, composes and even makes the costumes for her own films, oh and she has also starred in them as well. Biller’s latest film, The Love Witch is the story of a modern day sorceress who uses magic potions to seduce men. The film is […] |
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Making a short film? Don’t bring auteur theory on set.
Director David Chaudoir explains how implementing his crew’s ideas helps him get the most out of his films. I recently subtitled two films I shot last year and was astonished that I couldn’t just cut and paste from the script into the subtitles. More often than not the actors had digressed from it and were […] |
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The Bridle Lane Three: from design to filmmaking
Three filmmakers reflect on their experiences in design and filmmaking. In the late nineties, Aaron Trinder, and Marc Hardman and myself, David Chaudoir, all worked at a specialist design agency, English & Pockett, creating identities for television channels, and all of us have gravitated towards writing and directing our own films unbeknownst to each other. When […] |