Projects in categories: Documentary

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Jonty is a young man, he's passionate about politics, and he's got lots of charisma. In this affectionate and amusing portrait, he and his gang of East London teenagers prepare for the coming revolution.

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Kimmie is a weird kind of road movie that follows the journey of Liberian childs rights activist, Kimmie Weeks as he returns home from exile for the first time in 6 years. It is a very personal journey set against the backdrop of two countries pulling themselves out of war, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Kimmie was just 10 when war broke out in Liberia. He and his mother spent 6 months in a camp without food or medicines where hundreds died and Kimmie was almost one of them. It was this experience that led him to commit his life to fighting for children and, only a child himself, he spent the next 7 years campaigning. When he was 17 he wrote a paper exposing the government's use of children as soldiers; his life was threatened and he fled the country. He was given asylum in the USA where he had been for 6 years when Charles Taylor was forced into exile and Kimmie could return home. This was to be a trip looking at the issues surrounding war affected children but it was much more than that. A very likeable 23 year old takes on chaos, hope, old friends, presidents and his own demons to find peace- always with humour.

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Documentary based around the feature film Knocking on Heaven's Door, about the making of the film and goes deeper with in-depth interviews about the movie business. Shot entirely inside a TV studio with footage of the main feature film projected on two different screens.

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An Oxfordshire gardener dreams of being composted when he dies.

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A group of British Hindus and Sikhs demonstrate their desire to burn a loved one on an open funeral pyre.

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Carol Sullivan goes to the jewellers to pick up a diamond made from the ashes of her late daughter.

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Kevin and Gwen Upex reveal their narrowboat themed funeral plans.

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Artist and barber Faisal Abdu'Allah sets up his very own drop-in barbershop. Snipping and shaving while spinning yarns, Faisal discusses art, life and haircutting with customers.

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The film shows Chalford a village in the Cotswolds through one year. The only shop is under threat and becomes a focal point. Whole food hippies, pedal powered eco warriors. Life long residents and a multitude of children live life and help run the shop on ideology rather than commerce.

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A film about people who own (and love) the robot dogs called Aibo. The first consumer focus artficially intelligent product designed to create love bonds with owners. As the Aibo is an imitation of life, so our film mixes real owners with a fictional character playing improvised scenes based on research.

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A portrait of Peggy Smith and her husband Leslie - a retired cruise ship drummer - as they bicker their way through their old age in a London retirement home.

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Marjorie is an 89 year old retired vaudevillian actress. Fortunes have faded, but the memories of her magnificent past are vibrant. Marjorie's stark, subdued current existence is illustrated through the use of animated documentary. The film inter-cuts with fantastical, dreamlike, animated imagery which depict her memories of a happier time.