A Decade of NDH: Short Film Night
NDH41 was a glorious evening Tues Nov 28th at the Century Club for A Decade of NoDirectionHome, a special evening to celebrate the anniversary of our NDH filmmakers community - featuring short films from GUESTS on the night:
Prano Bailey-Bond • Steve Oram • John Maclean • Marc Munden • Doug Cox • Blaine brothers
FILMS:
Pitch Black Heist (Bafta winner) - John Maclean (starring Michael Fassbender)
Utopia/Help (clip) - Marc Munden
Sticks & Balls - Alice Lowe
Salt - Rob Savage
The Lincoln Tiger - Steve Oram (starring Gareth Tunley)
Smear - Kate Herron, Doug Cox
Belial’s Dream - Rob Morgan
Nasty - Prano Bailey Bond
Undeletable - Blaine brothers (starring Sophia di Martino)
Some messages from our amazing former guests:
NDH has been a creative haven for me and so many filmmakers I know.
My eternal thanks and gratitude to Matt for creating this space and screening our teams movie.
Kate Herron
I dream of attending NDH again some day!
Please extend my warmest cinematic love to all NDH’ers & remind them
to keep pushing forward & to make stuff. It is the only way.
Corin Hardy
A really special evening - beautifully curated. You really have built NDH
into something important and unique. Looking forward to the next already!
Marc Munden
To have been asked to be part of NDH was such a joy for us,
helped us feel at home and gave us some new friends.
Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson
How young we look! How enthused, how hopeful! But what was it for? What would it become? We had no idea - it was just a bunch of filmmakers getting together to share what they were up to, a bit of what they'd learned and help each other out if they could - and we like to think that hasn't changed. Hard cut to: 10 Years Later...
We have now had 40 events over the last decade with some truly amazing guests - from Oscar and Bafta-winning filmmakers like Mike Leigh, Mark Jenkin and Walter Murch (at a truly memorable screening of The Conversation at Curzon Soho) to more recent ground breaking genre directors like Prano Bailey-Bond, Rob Savage, Alice Lowe, Ben Wheatley, Rob Morgan, Kate Herron (and so many more fantastic guests too numerous to name - thank you all) - but most importantly, all of whom were there for one reason - to share their work habits, their insights into the craft, maybe even a secret tip or two - in other words to give back by helping to spread the love, the enthusiasm and above all the encouragement that we all need to keep going when it gets tough. To me that has been the most gratifying aspect of this strange and wonderful journey, and we think it can be summed up in one word.
Community. We are about people and connections. We invite filmmakers we like who are doing interesting work to share their process, their insights and their passion, and we invite our filmmakers to meet and join each other on this filmmaking adventure we have chosen. That's it - pretty simple, but in the end, this community only works because of you, so all we ask is that you come along looking to help the person next to you, offer that favour, support that project, lend a hand and it will come back to you, we promise - and that way it grows and flourishes. How lovely it has been to see it evolve over the years, to see new friendships and partnerships and even projects come into being - and it's all because of you, the people in this community - so from the bottom of our hearts, thank you to every one of our filmmaker guests, and to YOU for making it what it is.