Projects in categories: Fiction

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What really happens at a film premiere? 2EYESopen exposes the harsh reality on both sides of the red carpet; the intense adulation lavished upon the superstar while a person deemed unacceptable is dragged from the crowd.

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Three stories in a launderette over one washing cycle. The first is about a bride and a young boy. The second about an unhappy married woman and her daughter. The third about a young couple.

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33x Around the Sun follows the wanderings of a man on the nocturnal backstreets of London. It describes a dreamlike search for love that is loosely based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

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Until 25 years ago, the Kirghiz tribe lived a quasi-Iron Age existence in one of the remotest places on earth. Now, having migrated an amazing five times, they live in Turkey, a tribe divided. Those over 30 pine for their nomadic history and the rugged mountains of their homeland; the young have a modern education and live in a world of pop music and internet cafés.

A feature-length mix of the ethnographic and authored documentary forms, the collaboration between distinctive director Ben Hopkins and the Kirghiz tribe makes this film a unique record of a unique people.

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Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment all plague people of African descent globally. Why? Five hundred years from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedoms. Why?

Filmed in five continents, 500 Years Later examines the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 500 Years Later is a timeless and compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right – freedom.
 

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A free-form poem. A journey through undercurrents of the subconscious. How the creative process occurs, connected with the systems of language. The idea coincides with the process. First it is put into words, words that evolve through a mind maze. An organized chaos with openings to different directions of thought.

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One continuous five-minute take of escalating human drama, captured unwittingly on a camcorder.

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John lives in a world of lost love, where memories of Emily are more resilient than the present.

A bravura piece of film-making shot in one fluid take, A Case of You is a deeply ambiguous film with a powerful emotional undercurrent.

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Keith who just had an accident and was in a panic state, suddenly gets his mobile out and randomly presses down on the buttons hoping to ring his house, the phone rings. A young girl of 12 years old, Fiona, picks the phone up and speaks to Keith. Keith tells her to go and tell her mum that dad just had an accident. Her mum then reacts wildly with Uncle Tom.

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Kojo is a taxi driver living and working in Ghana. Sleeping on his break he is awoken by a beautiful young travelling actress called Cynthia. She’s in Ghana for the day and hires Kojo to show her some tourist attractions. The day ends with a sexual encounter and a reluctant promise from Cynthia to invite Kojo to England.

Six months later Kojo arrives on Cynthia’s doorstep in London. Filled with ambitions of making money and fulfilling his dreams of succeeding as a poet, he soon realises that the grass isn’t greener on the other side and people are not what they seem.
 

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The city of London has a beauty about it, but can sometimes be lonely for its inhabitants. Starting at dusk and ending at dawn the next morning, this film explores this idea of loneliness through four different scenarios showing the full gamut of life and death in the city, and exemplifies how indifference can exacerbate this plague of modern times.

Visually expressive and highly emotive, this film, though only five minutes long, works on a scale (visually and emotionally, that is) as big as the city it portrays. It is made using traditional forms of animation, as well as new forms such as computer animation, all skilfully composited together to convey feeling and emotion and life in an intuitive, expressive way.

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Mother lies in bed; her daughter sits nearby in uncomfortable silence. To raise her mother's spirits, the daughter takes her on the imaginary road trip of a lifetime. Mother and daughter travel via Paris and Hollywood, and return home again as friends, without ever having left the room.