Projects in categories: Documentary and with status: Post-production

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An inspirational and educative true story, with guerrilla style filming that makes it more real. The fantasy is what inspires Delia Antal, an actor and the film-maker to document the magic of the Cannes Film Festival. Delia talks honestly about the struggle of her journey as a new film-maker and the life changing events that occur at this important site of the film business. She shows us the ins and outs of the festival, the front lines and back-end action. We are also introduced to the hard work that takes place behind the scenes, beyond the glamorous Red Carpet.

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Following the band Yo Majesty through its trials and tribulations as they are making it in the music industry... and not making it. The band consists of three vocalists from Tampa, Florida, the producer team and record label is from the UK. The three women of the band had difficult upbringings and fought hard to establish themselves as open out lesbians. Financial success and artistic acceptance is finally within grasp. But soon it becomes clear that things aren't harmonious among the members of the group. With rising fame their increasingly larger than life egos start clashing ever more violently. Solo career aspirations and continuous troubles with the law seriously jeopardise their tantalisingly close breakthrough. Filmed in seven countries over three years, the film follows Yo Majesty’s turbulent journey through the music business, and closely chronicles their transformation when faced with the achievement of their dreams.

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Through the eyes of people who became convinced of a date for the end of the world, Right Between Your Ears explores how people believe, how we turn beliefs into certainties, and mistake them for the truth. A stock trader with a young family, a philosophy student about to graduate, a retail manager who became so convinced she quit her job of 18 years. As they face the consequences of their conviction, neuroscience and social psychology offer insight into how we can become convinced we’re right, even when we're wrong.

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The People's Cloud is a project investigating the ecology and impact of cloud computing on the lives of those who use it, the places it is physically located in and the people who work to maintain it. Traveling Europe in search of the infrastructure of the internet, the film surveys the acoustic properties of such locations and their relationship with the overall environmental and geopolitical impact of mobile data storage. Interviews take place with engineers, technicians, manufacturers, marketing experts, salespeople, economists, husbands, wives, family members, academics, cultural thinkers and artists and we discover what 'the cloud' means to them and what this data boom has meant to their lives.

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The true life story of how convenience store clerk Kevin Smith made his seminal feature film 'Clerks' and the people who aided him in his indie crusade.

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Exploring iconic actor Steve McQueen's explores for motorbikes, his relationship with his stunt double Bud Ekins and the film they were in together 'The Great Escape'. Through McQueen and Ekins's shared love of bikes, the duo created a new track-racing bike, which McQueen took to England where he met up with the Rickman brothers of Metisse motorbikes, and thus the ‘Desert Racer’ was born

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The untold story of a music revolution that changed the world forever. The pop music revolution that went on to rock the world and change society forever, didn't begin - or end - with the Beatles alone! Despite the many popular myths and the attempts to airbrush the truth from music history, the best is live and kicking, stronger than ever in Liverpool, the city that gave birth to it all.

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Exploring the history of Eel Pie Island which became the epicentre of R&B in South West London in the 60s and launched the careers of many rock legends from The Stones, Yardbirds and The Who to Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and Genesis. How black Blues music influenced a generation.

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James is an American boy whose life is brought to a halt by depression. Turning his back on progressive western treatments, he goes in search of healing in the Peruvian jungle. Over the course of six months James finds answers and a kind of redemption hidden deep in the amazon.