Projects in categories: Documentary

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Tina reflects on the life of her mother Norma, in a dream-like exploration of Norma's extraordinary collection of belongings. International Competition IFF Message to Man 2015 Nominated for Best Documentary at London Short Film Festival 2016

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Nollywood, as the business is known, churns out about 50 full-length features a week, making it the world's second most prolific film industry after India's Bollywood. PRN FILM highlights/ takes fresh approaches to familiar challenges facing the industry and presents them in a unique way.

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In the documentary Streetkids United II - The Girls From Rio a Brazilian girls football team is followed as they prepare themselves for the tournament that will change their lives forever, the Street Child World Cup. In the midst of police and drug gangs confrontations the Favela Street Girls strive to keep their dreams alive.

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A modern community on the cusp of change; a people intrinsically linked to nature and tradition, though their whale hunting practice is about to be challenged by the outside world.

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The Collector's Case was produced during Yelena Popova’s residency at Upton House, a National Trust property in Warwickshire. The video records the time Popova spent working with the collection of paintings at Upton House and reflects on the temporality of a painting collection.

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The Lawes of the Marches documents the ancient border tradition of the Common Ridings all along the border of England and Scotland. These ridings are about marking and commemorating the past with as much relevance today as when they began in 1500.

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Ten years after fleeing the regime in Serbia, Marko finds himself defending some of the very people that he fought against while he lived there, including the notorious Radovan Karadzic.

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Part of the ongoing work, 'Fucking Finland', exploring unintended cultural chinks and links in the old Iron Curtain, 'Your Silent Face' follows the dockers of Rostock at rest, as a Baltic ferry leaves port for Hanko in Finland.

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After his blind aunt dies, the London-born fillmmaker realises that his cantankerous emigrant father is also approaching death. In a bid to get closer to him before it's too late, and in order to try and work out what to do with the family's ancestral twelve acres of prime Punjabi farmland, the filmmaker returns to live in Punjab and learns to be a farm landlord. Along the way he discovers that when it comes to inheritances, all families have some serious issues to resolve...

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A three part series film: VIETNAM AND THE WAR; THE TV WAR; FALLOUT & RECOVERY This is the story of America's War with Vietnam and how it began. The film takes us on a journey from the fight for freedom from the French, the escalation of American involvement and contemporary US politics. Well known journalists contribute. Music of the era informs the film.

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A hilarious, heartfelt and heart-breaking documentary portrait of the longest running and lowest budget pantomime in Nottingham.

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Montreal is an island where the indie scene is blossoming like nowhere else in the world. And in the true spirit of the music, Timothy George Kelly's DIY film takes us to pop-up shows on rooftops, in subways, at playgrounds and in parking lots.