Projects in categories: Fiction

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As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar coffee industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.
 

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Combining photographs, cine and video footage from family archives and present day interviews with his parents and siblings, Edinburgh based filmmaker Paul Hamilton wonders what it is to be a Black Sheep. This short documentary takes the audience on an emotional journey through the filmmaker's youth and the rocky relationship with his family.

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Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri, on the northside of Mt. Everest. A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed to be possessed by evil demons, the children are feared by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by their Buddhist religion. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken — a blind educator and adventuress who established the first school for the blind in Lhasa — the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The result is nothing anyone could have predicted.
 

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Night. A deserted New York bar, a lonely barman. A clown runs through the forest pursued by something he cannot escape from. A man enters the bar for a drink and the conversation leads to why he is there, tracking down old schoolfriends with the help of something sinister. Sammy Davis Jr croons away 'Bojangles' on the jukebox as the clown bursts in to the bar and promptly expires. 'Schooldays, best days of our lives - I'm not so sure - When Bojangles comes to call, the time for all apologies is gone, time to admire his sleight of hand.
 

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Bowl Cut, his hair fashioned as a protective barrier to the outside world, What he can't see or hear, can't hurt him.

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Based on the prize-winning novel by Monica Ali, Brick Lane is the story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Nazneen's mother always told her she was a survivor, but trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her lot, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows. But she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided - and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door. Set against the changing backdrop of multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, of cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.

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Using a dynamic mix of music, sound, poetry live action and animatd SFX this film celebrates the 'joys of loving one another only briefly'. The film takes the viewer on a lyrical and poetic journey through which we share the affectionate and passionate memories of a gay mans sexual encounters in a, now derelict, Kennington victorian toilet.

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Bro 9 a quietly disturbing film unveiling a portrait of an inner city black urban male struggling to understand the emotional consequences of the childhood loss of his father.
Bro 9 explores the complex psychology of Scally as his personality disorder takes a startling grip on his reality and perception of the world.

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This feature documentary is an interview with several members of a Nigerian tribe called Ijaw, of which several million are living in the oil-rich region of the Niger Delta.

Nigeria is the world's sixth largest exporter of crude oil, holds the fourth largest reserve of oil and gas and is an important supplier of oil to the US. Since the British left Nigeria in the 1960s the country has been in a state of semi-civil war, wracked by religious conflicts, and its natural resources looted by western companies, as a result of which millions of people have died.

The people interviewed in this film have all suffered horrendous violence in their struggle for independence. Some have been on death row, some raped, some kidnapped and even tortured. Off camera they are quite willing to talk but on camera they were too scared because of possible repercussions. Their story still transpires throughout these portraits.
The project started in January 2000 and by September 2004, during which time the media had changed their general mood be describing the situation of 'gangs, local tribes and the oil companies in conflict' as 'armed militants and guerrillas against the government in a war zone'.

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Burning Light is a dark poem that takes us into an interior world of terrorism and nihilism. A frantic phone message from a friend has the hero spending the night in jail. His friend has just taken his life in the presence of his hostages.

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A boy rides in a bus on a hot, hazy day. His day dreams, memories and curiosity are triggered by the different sights that he encounters on the journey. He is sensitized into growing up by the mixed flavors of good and bad that entail the day.