Projects in categories: Documentary

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Two brothers grew up with a violent father and return home on his death to clear out his possessions and his remains left on the living room carpet.

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Out of Idaho is a 22 minute documentary profiling the New York based rock n roll singer/songwriter Jake Stigers. The film profiles Jake’s past, present and future through a highly paced montage of interviews, UK gigs and recordings from the USA.

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Pig Business documents Marchioness, Tracy Worcester's four year investigation into the intensive pig farming industry. The film reveals the devastating effects intensive pig farming is having on the environment, the health and welfare of agricultural communities, the quality of our food and animal welfare.  

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Possessed enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions. The film questions whether hoarding is a symptom of mental illness or a revolt against the material recklessness of consumerism. When does collecting become hoarding and why do possessions exert such an influence on our lives?

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A story of the life, struggle and survival of London's East End landlady, Sandra Esqulant, who's been running the Golden Heart pub in Spitalfields for nearly 30 years. Adored by everyone around her, the film captures a slice of her life in one of the most fascinating areas in London.

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A compelling portrait of a community living on the fenceline of big industry in Texas. Civil rights, environmental pollution and a battle against corporate power.

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That some people are constantly on roads is explained with some land, airway and seaway images. These people's journeys will certainly come to an end but this time other people's journeys will start in other words this cycle will always continue.

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Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary is an affectionate, comic and unique feature documentary that delves behind the scenes of the world's premiere youth music spectacle; The Junior Eurovision Song Contest. While The Eurovision Song Contest has matured into the highest rating non-sporting event in the world, enjoyed by over six hundred million people annually, Junior Eurovision is somewhat more of a home-grown affair. Now in its seventh year, the Junior competition differs in one major aspect from the adult competition: all of the ten to fifteen year old amateur contestants must compose and write their own entries and sing them in their national language. Not knowing who would make it through all seventeen participating countries' national selections, the film crew travelled from Belarus to the Ukraine, Cyprus to Belgium and Malta to Sweden to see whom each nation selected to represent them in Rotterdam at the Final.

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A visually striking and meditative study of a team of athletes, including British Olympic finalists Jeanette Kwakye and Sarah Claxton, filmed over the two months leading to the start of the 2007 outdoor season. Sprinters is an intimate and arresting portrayal of the frequently brutal world of top level athletics, revealing the mental and physical barriers confronted by the runners as they pursue their dreams, and a world in which agony, ecstasy, winning and losing are separated by a hundredth of a second.

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A poetic exploration of memory and loss, 'Steel Homes' is a portrait of life at a self-storage warehouse. Self-storage units are windows into human histories: the silent cells with their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes and lives we cannot let go off.

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From people with tattoo's on every body part, to tattoo's for the blind, Pillay-Evans Productions will take you on a visually stunning, and sometimes disturbing journey into the world of tattoo’s. The film takes a sociological look at tattoos and tries to answer the question of why tattoos have become such a large part of today's society.

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Feeling guilty? The film is based around the creation of a real-life 'apology line' where members of the public can anonymously confess to absolutely anything, over the telephone.