Projects in categories: Documentary

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A unique look inside an iconic british establishment - British Celanese. Told by former employees this is the story of a company that throughout its 100 year tenure touched tens of thousands of lives. This is not a sorry take of disillusionment but affection and great fondness for a past long gone!

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Short documentary exploring the lack of young people entering the agricultural industry and modern problems facing family run smallholdings.

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"Go straight off the wall" said his dad and Dominic does just that. The film follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist / inventor / designer, on his quest for new ideas....Transforming the mundane and ordinary into something surprising, wondrous and strangely thought provoking.

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A behind-the-scenes look at the popular boy band, Backstreet Boys. Directed by Stephen Kijak (Stones in Exile, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Cinemania).

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'Love Is All' is a creative collaboration between director Kim Longinotto and musician Richard Hawley, taking us on a romantic journey from the first screen kiss to the present day using spell-binding archive to explore how we made love in a century of unprecedented social upheaval.
aka 'Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship'
Göteborg Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

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The Dreamcatchers, Brenda Myers-Powell and Stephanie Daniels-Wilson, are two former prostitutes who use their inside knowledge to help women who are selling sex on the streets of Chicago, and to prevent very young girls from doing the same. Longinotto's film reveals the true devastation of sexual exploitation; how it affects the women, their families and the communities where they live. Through the intervention of the Dreamcatchers, we see how Brenda and Stephanie turn hopeless lives around.
Sundance Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world's imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, 'How To Change The World' is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement.
Sundance Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive, including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is a definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. With Brando himself as your guide, the film charts his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen. Exploring the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice... just Brando on Brando and life.

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A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life by revealing it, amid growing clouds of revolution and war.
Sundance Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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An impressionist journey through the archive of the Leeds Pavilion, which in the 1980s started out as a feminist photo studio. Former members, male and female, give their vision of the studio’s artistic and activist past, the reasons for which are as current as ever.
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 - World premiere

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In 1980s Romania, thousands of Western films smashed through the Iron Curtain opening a window into the free world for those who dared to look. A black market VHS racketeer and a courageous female translator brought the magic of film to the masses and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
Sundance Film Festival 2015 - World premiere