Projects in categories: Documentary

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Looking back at his visits to Poland and East Germany many years later, the filmmaker questions idealised imaginings of life in other places, times and political systems.

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Prior to being diagnosed with bowel cancer Richard Wright, an artist/animator, had a social media persona that was characterised by annoying and anarchic humour. After initially feeling unable to communicate at all, his general healing process became entwined with the resurrection of his social media presence.

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A portrait of one of Britain’s most beloved artists, David Hockney, with revealing contributions from Hockney himself and his friends and colleagues. “It’s been said that there was something of the holiday about David Hockney, that, despite personal loss, he sees the world with holiday eyes, as if for the first time. I wanted to capture this attitude without taking away the mystery and magic of a great artist.” Randall Wright
London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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It was only in the 20th century that we needed identity papers to cross national borders. In a century when we invented aviation, when we invented cinema, when we could move more and see more than at any other point in history why did we become so watchful and performative?

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The remarkable true story of a rag tag group of football fans who saved their club from oblivion. The film tells the story of Swansea City FC’s journey from the lower rungs of league football, with the club being sold for £1 in 2001, to achieving a £90m promotion to the Premier League just 10 years later.

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A film which gives an informal, inside look at what it takes to be successful in the contemporary art world, through the eyes of one of its leading exponents, the British YBA artist Marc Quinn. The film follows him over a full year in his life as he creates, exhibits and sells new work across the world from New York to Venice to Hong Kong and Istanbul where he comes into contact with celebrities including Elton John, the Queen and Ai Wei Wei.
London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Set against the backdrop of the 80s music scene, this documentary charts the meteoric rise, fall and ultimate reunion of pop sensation, Spandau Ballet.
Rome Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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A documentary that chronicles the hunt for the notorious Mexican drug lord El Chapo.

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'Future Shock!' is the anarchic history of 2000AD, the British science-fiction comic launched in 1977 that would come to change the face of the industry and pop culture at large.
The documentary features fascinating interviews with legendary creators, plus dynamic visual sequences that pay tribute to the groundbreaking artwork.

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A documentary to explain economics to everyone and why economic crashes will keep happening, presented by Terry Jones, covering the history of financial crashes and featuring a combination of live action, animation, puppetry and song.
Contributors include high profile advocates such as John Cusack, journalists such as Paul Mason and John Cassidy plus leading experts including Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England and Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J Shiller and Paul Krugman.

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Animated accounts from six World War Two Holocaust Survivors. Documenting their extraordinary stories of escape as children from Nazi-occupied Europe, and the start of their new lives in Britain.
Additional live-action camera interviews see survivors discussing the impact of these events on their lives, highlighting why it is important to still talk about the Holocaust today.

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Corner Kings is a documentary about a renowned boxing corner man and his gym, based in Swindon, England. The film explores his positive impact on a diverse group of fighters and shows the important, sometimes forgotten, role of the corner man in the modern working-class community.