Projects in categories: Documentary

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Between Two Rivers is a feature documentary about Cairo, Illinois, a historic river-town with a dark and turbulent past; isolated at the confluence of the Ohio & Mississippi rivers, where North meets South in the heartland of America.

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A documentary that follows LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy over a 48-hour period, from the day of their final gig at Madison Square Garden to the morning after the show.

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Following several tragic events, Jo and Amy attempt to come to terms with their new life as another Christmas in the care system approaches. Using audio interviews with brother and sister, Jo and Amy we listen to their memories as they deal with loss, separation and acceptance.

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Partially blinded by an unknown illness aged 4 and sent out to work on the tough streets of Kano in Nigeria aged 9, Aisha Sani Abdullahi's life chances were not great. However, a chance meeting sent Aisha's life in a completely different direction. Aisha's Song is an energetic and beautifully shot 16mm documentary that uses the sounds of street life in Kano in order to create a vibrant and organic soundscape. Musically lush and uplifting, the film is a positive story of female empowerment from a part of the world where women are all too often overlooked.

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Exploring the Balkan music scene in Berlin, London and Paris.

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Most people have a memory of a first time catching a fish, and 'FLY a Legacy' reflects my memories, and the vivid moments that I experience as a young man with my grandfather. An evolution, from the float, to the fly.

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Every year, around 3000 lone children come to the UK from war-zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, with few documents or evidence but full of expectation.

Hamedullah was protected by the UK Children's Act... but when he turned 18, he's jailed pending deportation. Hamedullah is the story of what happened next.

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Hula Girl is a documentary come road movie that follows two friends from Sheffield as they travel across America in search of a woman who posts hula hooping videos online

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In 2004, a wallaby was found dead on the isle of
Islay; how it got there and how it died remains a mystery. A crack
documentary team went with one goal - to unearth the truth - only to
discover there's more to island life than they first expected.

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On a cold snowy winter day, Musa's parents arrive to persuade him to take him back to his home country. However Musa does not want to go, as he does not want to do military service, which is compulsory.

After Dingil Huseyin's asylum application was rejected, he stayed on as an illegal immigrant. Once he was deported to France, but found his way back to the UK. On his friend's advice he attempts a fake marriage but is cheated and loses the little money he has.

Musa and Huseyin decide to go to Canada for a fresh start. Musa, Huseyin and their friend, Haco - a compulsive storyteller - meet in an old building in a London suburb on a hot summer day. Mehmet, who arranged fake passports for them, rehearses them in answering the basic questions they will be asked at control points.

Early in the morning, Musa, Huseyin and Haco leave the UK for their journey towards a new future.

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Julien Temple's epic time-travelling voyage to the heart of his hometown. From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous thinkers, political radicals and above all ordinary people, this is the story of London's immigrants, its bohemians and how together they changed the city forever. Reaching back to the dawn of film in London at the start of the 20th century, the story unfolds in film archive, voices of Londoners past and present and the flow of popular music across the century; a stream of urban consciousness, like the river which flows through its heart. It ends as London prepares to welcome the world to the 2012 Olympics.

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An intimate portrait about the iconic filmmaker John Boorman directed by his daughter Katrine. The story is told through the relationship of father and daughter, it is a journey about film making, family conflict, love and reconciliation.