Projects in categories: Documentary

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"Dreams of a Life" is an imaginative and multilayered quest to go beyond the newspaper reports and solve the mystery of who thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent was and why she lay undiscovered for three years after her death in one of the busiest parts of London.

Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above Shopping City in Wood Green. Nobody noticed. Nearly three years later, her flat was forced into by authorities due to lack of rent payment. Her skeleton was found surrounded by Christmas presents that she was in the process of wrapping. Her television was still on.

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How To Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is a feature documentary charting the journey of the film director Dan Edelstyn as he tracks down his long lost Jewish Ukrainian heritage and then attempts to relaunch his great grandfather's once glorious vodka empire. The film consists of a whirlwind journey through European time, space and the great events of the 20th century. The story has it all: revolution and romance, exile and entrepreneurship, and at its heart lies a life changing discovery of a vodka distillery in the Ukraine.

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As lead singer with Felt, Lawrence was responsible for some of the most precious music of the 1980s. On touchstone indie labels such as Cherry Red and Creation, the band released ten albums and ten singles - one for each year of the decade. Paul Kelly's intimate, smart doc portrait, a labour of love filmed over the last eight years, follows Lawrence between Go Kart Mozart albums, weighed down by the chips on his shoulders while still dreaming of being a pop star who rides in limousines and dates supermodels.

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The film follows Alice and Jerusha, two young, beautiful, spirited Kenyan girls preparing to leave the children’s centre they have grown up in. An exploration of femininity, adolescence and a portrait of young women 'coming of age' in Africa.

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A portrait of a tumbledown Pyrenean farmhouse as seen through the eyes and ears of the family that have lived there on and off for the last 22 years. With music by Scanner and a range of voices from the filmmaker’s sound archive, the work explores notions of nostalgia, memory and place.

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A real story about the emotional and psychological impact of sex trafficking from the point of view of the victim.

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SCARS YOU CAN'T SEE is a cinematic portrait of Berta, an inspirational Chilean woman, who was born with a unilateral complete cleft palate and lip. In this film, Berta reflects on both her life with the condition, and as a mother of a child with the same illness.

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SOUTHBANK UNSEEN will blow our minds and get us thinking through four, visually dynamic and aurally arresting, documentary dramas that delve into the unseen.

These short documentary dramas give us an alternative view of London’s South Bank from the eyes and ears of four extraordinarily gifted individuals.

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Fencing is one of the oldest Olympic sports. Within this sport there is a whole communality of fencers & fencing clubs, which covers all backgrounds and ages. This short documentary shows how beautiful Foil fencing is to watch & play.

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Earlier this year the Kansas duo that make up Truckstop Honeymoon, Katie Euliss and Mike West visited Folkestone, as part of their European Tour.

The pair who travel with their Four children stayed with us on their brief visit and we managed to make this short documentary film of their stay.

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Stories from the North Sea. From the fjords to the lochs. From brown to blue. Surfing's sepia dipped North Sea tales foretold. Uncommon Ideals is part of a project to document the experience and culture of surfing in and around the North Sea.

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The UK is known as ‘Billet’ in Bangladesh, a desired place where millions of people want to go. This film reflects my personal journey to Billet, or Blighty, and explores what it is like to make a home to a foreign country.