Daniel Draper on Movies That Changed Your Life: Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Gleaners And I, Marcela

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with Daniel Draper, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Distant Voices, Still Lives analysis, The Gleaners And I influence, and Marcela impact on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Daniel also discusses the making of Liverpool Story: A Portrait Of A City Movies That Changed Your Life Find out about what Daniel Draper, and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright’s movie podcast. Liverpool Story: A Portrait Of A City [2:47] Brief synopsis of Liverpool Story: A Portrait Of A City [4:44] The importance of transitions on documentary storytelling [6:00] How do you, as a person born and raised in Liverpool, see Liverpool with fresh eyes? [8:49] Using voiceover in documentary and people talking to the camera [14:09] Whispered voices drifting in and out of the soundtrack [16:57] What did you learn about Liverpool that you didn’t know before you made the film? [24:23] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Distant Voices, Still Lives Analysis [25:15] Daniel Draper shares how Distant Voices, Still Lives is one of the most special films in his life. How writer/director Terence Davies is not just a Liverpool filmmaker but a master of his art. It’s a film that’s nostalgic in a very present way. The Gleaners And I impact [31:49] Daniel Draper loves the face that such an established filmmaker as Agnes Varda would hit the streets with a DV camera and make The Gleaners And I. How a film can be about something so simple as ordinary people; people who operate in the cracks and shadows of society. Marcela Influence [37:49] Daniel Draper remembers watching Marcela and after the film ends he was thinking about the subject of the film – Marcela – for weeks after. Key Takeaways: - Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. - Learn how to make feature length documentaries - Understand cinema’s transformative power through Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Gleaners And I (2000), Marcela (2007) - Full show notes and transcript: About the Guest: Daniel Draper is half of Shut Out The Light Films, an independent film and distribution company, founded in Liverpool in 2014. His previous feature-length documentaries to date, Nature of the Beast, The Big Meeting, Almost Liverpool 8 and Manifesto For more information https://www.shutoutthelight.co.uk/liverpoolstory Get Involved : Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life ! Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review to tell us which 3 films that impacted your life . Credits: Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons ( ⁠https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/⁠ ) Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com]( ⁠https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/⁠ ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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