Projects in categories: Documentary

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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

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An inspirational and occasionally heart-stopping true story of a group of friends from a working men's club in Wales who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Against all the odds, their young foal, raised on nearby waste-land, goes on to become a champion. Until one day disaster strikes… Official Selection Toronto 2015 - TIFF Docs

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In the North of England, two adolescent brothers set out to attend an EDL street protest against radical Islam - but will the boys be convinced by the cause’s far-right beliefs? Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Dare Strand

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True Appaloosa is an adventure story set in the wilds of Central Asia. An Appaloosa Horse breeder, Scott Engstrom, from California, goes in search of the original horses that might have started the breed and aims to rewrite the history of the American horse in the process.

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"What is Black Guilt? I’ve often asked myself, why can't artist Kudzanai Chiurai be free to just paint flowers or some shit…?" In this film we question the responsibility of African artists in an ever more globalised universe, where we maybe find ourselves "playing catch up" to the West as opposed to following our own paths. Are we victims of our past, forever beholden to our so called arrested development, or is our superpower our burden? Berlin International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Andrea Dworkin was one of the most influential feminists of the last quarter of the twentieth century, characterizing pornography as an industry of damaging objectification and abuse, prostitution as a system of exploitation, and intercourse as coercive and degrading to women. Despite her challenging and uncompromising views, which made her a figure of intense controversy, she was nevertheless greatly respected for the quality of her writing and thought, the power of her oratory, and her great commitment to the feminist cause. 'Intercourse' offers a multi-layered visual, narrative approach to her life and thought, with multiple actors taking her role and expressive and non-naturalistic re-enactments of pivotal moments.

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Dreams Rewired traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination – promising total communication, the annihilation of distance, an end to war. But then, too, there were fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality.   Using rare (and often unseen) archival material from nearly 200 films to articulate the present, Dreams Rewired reveals a history of hopes to share, and betrayals to avoid.

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A spirited celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity. Filmed over seven years, ESTATE, A REVERIE reveals and celebrates the resilience of residents who are profoundly overlooked and stereotyped by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents’ own historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, the documentary poses the question as to how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography…

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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.