Projects in categories: Documentary

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A mix of documentary and narrative fiction, which follows the love story of a single character as he waits to be reunited with the love of his life while going about his daily routine as a casting agent. This leads to a multi faceted storyline as we enter the lives of the various figures in his everyday working environment. The film deals with themes of love, identity and time - past, present, and future.

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An autobiographical documentary, a fiction that's also an essay and an extended poetic meditation on the ability of the image to represent experience.

Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, shot first in 1988 and then again in 2008, and culminating at the haunting expanse of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world.
 

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Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.

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Planeat is a provocative challenge to our love of meat and dairy. Tracking a group of scientists, the film forces us to confront the evidence that a heavily animal-based diet is bad for our health, environment and future of the planet. However, with the help of some innovative chefs, these problems can be solved.

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What do the contents of your pockets say about you?

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Commissioned as part of the 'Bridging the Gap' production scheme, short documentary Pollphail is a startling portrait of imagined futures and a village in limbo.

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An intimate and revealing documentary featuring Whitstable artist John Butterworth. John was predominantly an abstract artist until the untimely death of his brother Charles left him devastated and disconnected from his early work. No longer able to relate to the intangible nature of his art he began a series of figurative paintings that featured people falling from the sky. Portrait is about coming to terms with grief, and a reflection on art, life and mortality.

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Shot in the run up to the 2008 Olympics, this documentary follows Aifeng, a young sex worker in a Beijing massage parlour. Like many migrant workers in modern China she is struggling to support her family back home. When she suddenly loses her job, Aifeng faces her biggest challenge yet.

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The search for the meaning behind the unwrapped and unusual objects that Paul Smith, the fashion designer, has been receiving in the post for the last 20 years, from a mystery person.

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Bullfighting endures the stigma of animal cruelty yet also holds the grace and elegance of tradition. This paradox evokes an inner conflict rarely addressed. Red Sands is an objective and Eisenstein-esque documentary, raising questions about age old tradition and its future.

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10 years ago there was a Rock and Roll band called The Fury.

Feted by Music Industry insiders, lauded by their fiercely loyal fans, they were tipped by many to be the breakout band of 1997.

10 years later, their debut album remained unreleased. The band split up.

Rock and Roll Stole my Soul is a retrospective documentary that looks at the rise and fall of The Fury. Archive footage of the band ten years ago is combined with interviews of the band in 2008 to tell the story of how the band that could have had it all ended up with nothing.

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In the jungles of Borneo, an Iban father on the cusp of old age begins a river journey to seek medical help for his sick child. Along the way, the boy is troubled by recurring visions of a strange figure who appears on the river bank. As the journey progresses, father and son are drawn inexorably to a final encounter with the mythical 'transformed' shaman who dwells deep inside the jungle.

Semangat was made by working closely with one Iban longhouse community from Sarawak, Malaysia with whom the story was devised and filmed. Set in the jungles of Borneo, the basis of the film explores the conflict that exists between ancient animist beliefs and modern approaches to illness. The main protagonists of the film are a real father and son, and a retired shaman from this community.

Semangat is a micro-budget hybrid docu-fiction film funded by The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, The UK Film Council/CTBF John Brabourne Award and Screen South. It has been produced under the creative guidance of award winning filmmaker, Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love). It has been co-produced with The National Film and Television School.