Projects in categories: Documentary

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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.

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A procession of the Italian Confraternity - an order of the Catholic church that perhaps, to the eyes of traditionally non-Catholic countries, triggers other very different movements. This confusion is dispelled by references, filmed in the same town, same day, to more recognizable aspects of Catholicism. Innocent, but still the power to shock?

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A recently arrived American notices a woman living in a partially demolished house on a massive development site in Shanghai, a row of welcoming red lanterns strung proudly over her doorway. This film captures the final days of the Red Lantern House and the beginning of an unlikely friendship.