Projects in categories: Documentary

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A father talks to camera about his two sons - one who becomes a successful academic, and the blacksheep in his father's eyes, the other son, a thief.

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When he was 14, one of Charlie Wilson’s mates picked up a guitar. His rendition of That’ll Be the Day made Charlie’s hair stand on end, making him vow to learn the guitar. Now the lead singer of the Brick Lane Boogie Boys, he plans to continue playing until he drops…

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A real life RomCom starring Mills & Boon devotees from across the world. Demure Japanese housewife Hiroko yearns to be swept off her feet by a dashing David Beckham look-alike. When she takes up ballroom dancing lessons with dishy Mr Iijima, will fantasy become reality? Feisty Indian princess Shumita has grown tired of playing the victim since her debonair husband left her for a younger woman. Deep down she knows she's the true love of his life and she's out to get him back. Single Mum Shirley has finally found true love with her very own hero. But her knight in shining armour has his dark side: together they must find a way to hold onto their happy ending. Sexy romance cover model Stephen can get any woman he wants. But he won't settle for anything less than his 'eternal flame' and he's having trouble finding her. Glamorous author Gill Sanderson delivers five Mills and Boon titles a year to her devoted readers across the world. However, Gill is in fact Roger, a pensioner writing from a small caravan in the Lake District. Five heroes, four continents, one dream of true love. Because real life begins where Mills and Boon ends.

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The simple movements of everyday reality on the New York subway are transformed into a choreography of fractured and fleeting impressions.

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Filmed over four years, Vanessa And Maurice - an African American couple with five kids - leave Alaska for Las Vegas to find their fortunes as the economic downturn looms.

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Investigating the aggressive cancer, Burkitt's Lymphoma, through an intimate portrayal of a UK mother who lost her son to the disease. The film follows her to Malawi to learn more about the disease, observe children being treated and discover what can be done to speed up their diagnosis.

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This short film reflects on the swiftly shifting nature of the urban landscape, set in a working class area of South London that is currently being redeveloped and gentrified. This notebook film has no narration and depicts the architecture poetically in flux.

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A warm-hearted documentary about how Britian caught the flamenco bug. Elders of the British flamenco scene recount how they fell into the world of Spanish dancing which shaped their lives and influenced future generations. Personal stories are told against a vivid background of archive footage and photos. For this documentary, Spanish Steps Film organised a flamenco reunion party in a Soho restaurant, where the flamenco culture had been incubated in post-war Britain. Here flamencos gathered to play, dance, sing and remember the old days.

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Millions of sales on both sides of the Atlantic, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills, spats, prats, success, excess, pick-me-ups, breakdowns and of course some of THE dening music of the late twentieth century. This is the definitive and fully authorised story of the UK's most inspired and dissolute label. Twenty-five years after its first proper release and ten years after it closed its doors we tell the Creation Records story, from the Jesus and Mary Chain at the Living Room to Oasis at Knebworth.  

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Filmed from a tower block, the film takes in the city of London below. Filmed mostly in time-lapse with the camera tracking across this aerial field of view through the winter months, the intention is to create a cinematic map that exposes the neural networks of the post-modern metropolis.

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Donor Unknown follows the story of Jo Ellen Marsh, 20, as she goes in search of the sperm donor father she only knows as Donor 150. Jo Ellen has always known her family 'wasn't like other families'. She grew up in Pennsylvania with two mothers, and a burning curiosity to know more about her anonymous donor father. When Jo Ellen discovers a unique online registry that connects donor-conceived children, she manages to track down a half-sister in New York. The New York Times picks up the story, and, over time, 12 more half-siblings emerge across the USA.   The New York Times article also falls into the hands of Jeffrey Harrison, living alone with four dogs and a pigeon in a broken-down RV in a Venice Beach car park. In the 1980s, Jeffrey supplemented his meagre income by becoming a sperm donor at California Cryobank. His number was Donor 150. Donor Unknown follows Jo Ellen from her discovery of her siblings, to the moment Jeffrey steps forward to identify himself as Donor 150, to her decision to travel to California to meet him.

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The world's first street art disaster movie. Exit Through the Gift Shop, the first film by renowned graffiti artist Banksy, became the hottest ticket at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it made its world debut. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, 'It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed'.