“Born to avenge my sex and conquer yours, I have succeeded in inventing strategies for doing so that before me had never been conceived.”
There's a 'Scandal on the Court', and everyone is a suspect.
Take Ghetto Gastro, throw in some Murano glass, add the soulful sounds of Solange... and you get a Webby nomination.
Armed with a strong desire to forge a unique path for myself, I got into the film industry via music videos. The energy and endless possibilities London gives was a real driving force.
Three nominations at the Kinsale Shark Awards for 'Downstream', 'Rejoice Resist' and 'Earth Odyssey
02 March 2021
Danny Sangra, Elisha Smith-Leverock and Adi Halfin, nominated at the Kinsale Shark Awards.
Êxtase to have its US premiere at MoMa Doc Fortnight.
24 February 2021
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled the festival lineup!
GOLD at the 1.4 Awards for Creative Excellence!
19 February 2021
Luo Jian wins the BRANDED category with our first piece of work for Martell, and their first-ever short film production.
'Moffie' nominated for a BAFTA!
04 February 2021
Producer Jack Sidey gets Moffie a nomination for 'Outstanding Debut' alongside 'Rocks' and 'Saint Maud'.
Eva Michon joins Spike Jonze’s 'Beastie Boys', Hiro Murai’s FKA Twigs 'Sad Day' and Sam Spiegel’s 'Heaven'.
Leaving a prestigious career in costume behind, Courtney Hoffman is newly signed at Lief!
27 January 2021
Courtney is looking forward to directing many more female-forward, visually bold stories that are highly creative as well as commercially appealing.
Watch groundbreaking debuts from emerging directors alongside standout examples of filmmaking from more established names.
Blind Beauty
04 January 2021
How do those without sight perceive and experience beauty in this world?
BE A MAN tops Viggo Mortensen's 'Masculinities Playlist'!
16 December 2020
"Real men think and feel for themselves."
#goals 'Honey Boy' is on Film-Grab!
27 November 2020
The beautiful lens of Alma Har’el with Director of Photography Natasha Braier and Production Designer JC Molina.
NOWNESS PICKS Gillian Zinser's short film 'Be A Man'
27 November 2020
Redefine masculinity with the Cuban bad boy of Ballet.
Interview Magazine talks to Gillian Zinser about 'Bad Habits'.
13 November 2020
Move your attention to the Sisterhood of Perpetual Indulgence who have been fighting forces of hatred since ’79. Amen, Sister!
Danny Sangra for Evening Standard Magazine.
12 November 2020
Guest editor Quentin Jones invites Danny Sangra to participate creatively in this week's Evening Standard Magazine.
Johnny Ma to judge the IFFAM 2020 Shorts Competition
10 November 2020
Alongside Chinese producer Fu Jia and French producer Mathilde Henrot, Johnny Ma will judge the festival's 10 title-strong short film competition.
Watch: 'Homemade' with Johnny Ma
06 November 2020
Filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity in bite-sized shorts for Netflix 'Homemade'.
‘This is a film of compassion and tender observation of lives we rarely see – it’s in the performance of the routine tasks made by one person for another that we start to grapple with meaning, dignity and what it is to be human.’ KEN LOACH
Danny's October Film Diary
01 November 2020
This month, Danny didn’t watch any Halloween films and got caught up falling into Australian reality shows.
Elisha Smith-Leverock in discussion with the LBB Film Club
31 October 2020
"The idea behind Rejoice Resist came in response to a brief IN THE BLK and Equator Productions approached me with at the end of August. It focused on celebrating Blackness and speaking to solidarity and independence within the Black community."
'Imogen' will take part in the 10th-anniversary program of Aesthetica Short Film Festival.
29 October 2020
The 'Challenging Perspectives' BFI Doc Society program will be available online for all of November.
"Teaming Japan’s greatest internationally renowned filmmaker, Kurosawa, with their greatest living author, Ishiguro, coupled with the tremendously talented Oliver Hermanus, is a producer’s dream."
"A set of stream of consciousness short stories during quarantine" Watch 'Downstream' by Danny Sangra
01 October 2020
An animated story of volcanoes, the universe and an apple that dreams of travelling to other planets.
'Triple Beam Dream' is AFFF's Best Documentary Winner!
30 September 2020
A "Social Sculpture" ~ taking something destructive and making something beautiful out of it.
NOWNESS PICKS 'Bad Habits' a film by Gillian Zinser
07 September 2020
Meet the drag-queen nuns advocating for queer communities.
TERRAIN is an expanded cinema project which brings together dance, documentary film, 360-degree immersive video, virtual interactivity and spatial design into a multimedia story environment.
Johnny Ma's 'To Live To Sing' premieres in China
28 August 2020
A socially distanced screening for To Live To Sing's Chinese premiere in times of Covid.
'The Orphan' now streaming on MUBI
19 August 2020
Carolina Markowicz's short film is "A ravishing tale of a young person’s quest for approval and belonging" MUBI