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Rufus Norris and Bart Layton have both been nominated in the Best Director and the Best Debut Director (the Douglas Hickox Award) categories for the British Independent Film Awards, which were announced today.
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Welcome to part 2 of our interview with Colin Barr, director of Space Dive. For part 1, click here.
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On Sunday 14th October 2012, 8 million people were glued to YouTube to watch the site’s biggest livestream to date: Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive, in which the Austrian fell from around 120,000 feet back down to Earth.
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