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

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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/⁠)  
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