Projects in categories: Documentary

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Cangleska Wakan discusses the 'sacred hoop' of the Sioux Lakota with discussions from powerful and respected contributors on Indian reservations in South Dakota.

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Commissioned as part of the 'Bridging the Gap' production scheme, short documentary Christmas with Dad follows 23-year-old AJ as he and his family prepare for the festive season and the arrival of an eighth child.

With remarkable access and insight the film reveals a young man struggling to define his role as a father, haunted by his own childhood and facing an uncertain future.

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Can one man with a dream win the heart of the world's most powerful woman? This is a documentary like none you have seen before - the first musical docu-tragi-comedy in the history of cinema. Part Borat, part Fahrenheit 9/11, part Mamma Mia!, it follows a love-struck soul's hilarious, emotionally engaging, and ultimately shocking quest to woo former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
 
A spin on the Rapunzel fairy-tale, this unique romantic/political/biographic feature follows Devin Ratray, a portly website designer, musician, former child actor (famed as Buzz in Home Alone), and besotted admirer of Condi, as he prepares to meet her.
 
As Devin travels the country, learning more about the great lady from those who know her, Courting Condi tells the life story of one of our era's most inspiring, enigmatic, and controversial figures. This film is both timely and a classic love story, punctuated by timeless songs.
 
It's the first retrospective of the Bush Adminstration and will inspire audiences to laugh, sing and protest about the past eight years.

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An Indian gypsy woman torn between two worlds fighting by her wits and beauty for survival. Shot over four years the film follow the life of charismatic Sandra. From the bottom rungs of Indian society, she was the first of her caste to marry a Westerner. With the advent of tourism her family was one of the first to move to Pushkar in search of a better way of life. As a teenager she met Michael, a wealthy middle aged Australian. Utterly seduced by each others differences Michael spent five years with her family before marrying her. After four years he deserted her taking their daughter with him.

The film starts weeks after Sandra was abandoned trying to understand what happened. As time progresses becoming more estranged from her family Sandra follows a route that leads her into dubious relationships with tourist men. This complex film offers an insight into a microcosm reflecting the emotional impact when two cultures clash. A free spirit the decisions Sandra makes often feel like her choice, yet the invisible walls that imprison her in limbo are also cultural. A tragic cautionary tale that also celebrates the spirit of survival in a rapidly changing India.

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A mobility scooter, a travel ban and one man's fight for independence. Michael Clark takes on Newcastle's Metro system in a single handed protest to restore access for mobility scooter users to the Newcastle Metro train.

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Emma Bishop and Ben Marshall are a 28-year-old Down's Syndrome couple who dream of getting married to each other. The film traces their journey towards making a decision about whether or not to get engaged. It explores the inner lives of young people with Down's Syndrome and the nature of love.

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A journalist whose family was killed by the Khmer Rouge spends a decade making friends with the men and women who directed and perpetrated the Killing Fields. He obtains ground-breaking accounts from the notorious Brother Number Two and the grassroots killers and gains a new and terrifying perspective on the genocide. But the truth he discovers comes at a price.

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David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear – a decision that changes his life forever.

Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy - and the loss of it.

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Creative Todd Lynn makes clothes for rock stars with the help of his grandmother in Smiths Falls Canada, before heading off to London to follow his dream of becoming an international fashion designer.

After studying at the World famous St Martins college of fashion, watched by Alexander McQueen he presents his skills to receive the acclaim of his peers. He is a hit!

Following this, his honed talent and magnetic personality attracts a team of devotees who help him shine in the catwalk spotlights for the likes of Giorgio Armani and associates.

However, from here on the journey is not smooth for Todd but with his team and dark sense of humor to protect him he encounters and conquers many adverse moments, including the recession, to deliver collection after collection of amazing clothes for which he receives unparalleled reviews.

This story is bigger than a fashion, it is about communities and friendship, about overcoming obstacles with comrades to deliver a feel good sense of empowerment to go and get your dream.

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An experimental short that follows the narrator's reflections on modern-day parallels with history.

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In Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, a display of nationalism is taken to its logical conclusion. Moving between macro and micro perspectives, Flag Mountain sets dramatic spectacle against everyday life as the inhabitants of both sides of the city go about their daily business.

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A contemplative, static study of an unlikely landmark in an unlikely place. Normally only glimpsed in passing, Stott Hall Farm, a cottage built in 1737, floats islandlike in the middle if the M62 in West Yorkshire, whilst cars and lorries thunder past on both sides. Despite the farm seemingly being a monument to stubbornness, the urban myth being that the farmer refused to leave when the motorway was built in the 1970s, the truth of the story is that the east- and westbound carriageways could not meet due to the lie of the land, and the motorway had to be parted around the cottage to avoid landslips.