Projects in categories: Documentary

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Jerry is a driver for a Chinese takeaway in Edinburgh, whose solitary shift begins as we go home. Through Jerry we glimpse a mysterious world, where nameless kitchen staff silently cook food that Jerry delivers to faceless customers, alone in the car, just his dreams for company..

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Three mythical stories from the island nation of Vanuatu, South Pacific, concerning the origin of humans, why pigs walk on all fours, and why a volcano sits where it does.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most dangerous place on earth to be a woman. This intimate film captures testimonies from both women and children living in this mineral rich part of the region and also discovers a shameful truth, with images showing women slaving away in gold mines.

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A documentary on a multi-national collection of young offenders in Malta Prison, putting on a Shakespeare inspired production. The film follows the inmates on their emotional journey as they discover hidden talents, connect with each other and find new meaning in their lives.

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A short film that explores the characters at a under used Household Waste and Recycling facility in Cardiff. Bessemer Boys gives us an insight into of the type of people it takes to run the facilty on a daily basis.

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In Search of Silent Landscapes follows Britain’s top female ultra-distance runner, Sharon Gayter. We learn of her troubled childhood, desire for escape and the hours of pain and solitude that redeemed her.


The film is a portrait of a complex and remarkable woman and a meditation on time, devotion and silence.

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One Mile Away tells the human side of gang violence and knife crime, of people who are both perpetrators and victims. These are issues that are hard to understand and seem impossible to resolve. This film is a rare opportunity to do both.

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Filmed over four years, Personal Best follows up-and-coming British sprinters on their journey from the grassroots of athletics to the international stage. The film is both a gripping portrait of the athletes in training and competition, and a deeply personal account of their lives unfolding – revealing victory, defeat, agony, ecstasy and the simple trials of growing up. On the eve of the 2012 Olympics, this film tells the stories of Britain’s young sprinters as they strive towards their dreams. This is an inspiring but genuine portrait of Britain’s youth and a penetrating study of the art of sprinting, peeling back the layers so we can finally understand everything it means to them as they are on the start-line waiting for the gun to fire.

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Swandown is a travelogue and odyssey of Olympian ambition. A poetic film-diary about encounter and culture. It is also an endurance test and pedal-marathon. Andrew Kötting (the filmmaker) and Iain Sinclair (the writer) pedal a plastic swan-shaped pedalo from the seaside in Hastings to Hackney in East London, via the English inland waterways. This action may, in part be seen as an act of ‘dada performance’ or as a response to the spirit of Olympic diversity and ambition. The journey and all that it entails is documented on both film and video and presented as a 90-minute feature length experimental documentary.

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In the middle of an industrial wasteland in South East London lies a piece of untold comedy history, the Tunnel Club. A long-gone hive for Britain's wildest acts: a comedian and a notorious heckler tell its story and that of its infamous compere, unsung 'godfather of alternative comedy,' Malcolm Hardee.

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In Trashed, Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This meticulous, brave investigative journey takes him (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.

The beauty of our planet from space forms a violent contrast to the scenes of human detritus across the globe. Vast landscaped in China are covered in tons of rubbish. The wide waters of the Ciliwung River in Indonesia are now barely visible under a never-ending tide of plastic. Children swim among leaking bags; mothers wash in the sewage-filled supply. Each year, we now throw away fifty-eight billion disposable cups, billions of plastic bags, 200 billion liters of water bottles, billions of tons of household waste, toxic waste and e-waste.

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AFTER is a film about contemporary life in Auschwitz. In an observation from dusk till dawn, it portrays the theatre of everyday life around the grim confines and captures the energies and activities of a world fascinated by this former concentration camp.