Projects in categories: Documentary

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Following five international riders from the USA, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom and Ireland as they take part in the Mongol Derby horse race in Mongolia. A recreation of Ghenggis Khan's postal system, this multi-stage, multi-horse race over a 1000 kilometers of Mongolian steppe is the longest and toughest horse race on the planet. The riders are out on their own and must navigate with GPS from horse station to horse station, where they change their horses every 40 kilometers, staying the nights out in the wild or with nomad families along the way.

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A psycho-geographic film essay, documenting the ethnographic tendencies of the industrial landscape and its malevolent stature over the individual. The shipping industry’s ever-shifting landscape, affecting even this interaction you are having with this text, crafts its own mythology.

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A film of stone and light – just stone and light. "Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes of the elegy. Elegy presents everything as lost and gone or absent and future." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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A book and audio experience that uses a mixture of evocative music, narration and field recording to bring stories of changing environments, from the swamplands of Louisiana, to empty Latvian villages and the edge of the Tunisian Sahara.

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A lyrical short documentary featuring writer and Scots Makar (poet laureate) Jackie Kay. Jackie explores what identity means today as a Black, Scottish, lesbian writer, revealing how storytelling and imagination can offer us a way to live with – and grow to love – our many identities.

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Combining cutting edge virtual reality filmmaking and multisensory storytelling, immerse yourself in the lives and struggle of the Munduruku Indigenous People deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

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A biography of American poet Emily Dickinson narrated by Cynthia Nixon from the production company responsible for Terence Davies' A QUIET PASSION, the critically acclaimed biopic of the poet released in 2017.

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An unseen location scout explores an opal mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semi-deserted region both the traces of indigenous culture and remnants of cinema history.

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Mount Olympus, a 24 hour theatre performance to 'Glorify The Cult Of Tragedy' by visionary Flemish Artist Jan Fabre, took 12 months rehearsals with 27 Warriors of Beauty to create. This feature-length art film was shot entirely by hand on a single camera and a a crew of one. Captured onstage, backstage and in Fabre's private atelier, the film offers a quiet and intimate glimpse of the human body when it truly surrenders and reveals its truth.

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Tawai is the word the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Borneo use to describe their inner feeling of connection to nature. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life, explorer Bruce Parry travels the world to learn from peoples living lives very differently to our own. From the jungles of Malaysia to the the tributaries of the Amazon, TAWAI is the result of a four-year exploration to find a deeper understanding of indigenous peoples and how their way of life can benefit those in the industrialised world - providing a powerful voice that must be heard before it is completely lost.

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“It’s a story of a ship. It is called The Unbelievable, which sank 2,000 years ago. It was carrying a lot of treasures, sculptures and jewels, to create a palace, and it sank and was lost for ever.” (Damien Hirst) The documentary has been produced to coincide with the Damien Hirst solo exhibition 'Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable' at the Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy from April 2017.

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Whitney Houston was the most awarded female recording artist of all time, with more consecutive number one hits than The Beatles, and on top of that she was America’s Sweetheart. Yet despite her fame, talent, and success, she died tragically at the age of 48. Featuring largely never-before-seen footage and recordings and interviews with some of her closest collaborators and friends, this moving documentary tells the story of the girl behind the voice, her extraordinary life and her tragic death. According to band members, “Can I Be Me” was her most used expression, so much so they sampled it and would play it at the start of rehearsals. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2017 - Spotlight Documentrary - World premiere