Projects in categories: Documentary

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An astute and affectionate portrait of the unseen community of HAM radio enthusiasts. The space age hobby where the world is your friend.

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A walking/musical journey into the heart of the environmental crisis. This documentary traces the footsteps of folk band Nimomashtic as they walk 900 miles around the UK , quite literally from gig to gig in their bid to inspire others to make a difference in their everyday lifes to help the environment.

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A no-budget, non-dialogue documentary about a man living and working on an organic farm in Cornwall, England. Filmed towards the end of the two months he spent there, when the isolation and the sometimes harsh weather were making life harder. A portrait of one man and his environment.

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A surreal look at the remnants of Socialist East Germany. Told through a double of the ex-president Erich Honecker, two ex-border guards (one east, one west) who photographed each other over the fence for 18 years and a man with a dream to rebuild his own version of the GDR in a bleak East German town with 70% unemployment. A complex insight into the confused aftermath of a vanished country.

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The remarkable story of a woman who owes her life to unseen angels and an eminent psychologist who was prepared to believe.

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A Map With Gaps is an account of a journey made by the director's father through Soviet Russia in the early 'seventies, in a van he built and named Supervan. Utilising a combination of archive audio recordings and still photographs, drama reconstruction and animation, a surreal and comic tale unfolds of 12,000 miles, 14 countries and 26 very peculiar days. Essentially this is a catalogue of minor disasters, a story that demonstrates that fact can indeed be stranger than fiction and sometimes the grey area between the two is the most interesting place to explore, particularly if you forgot to bring a map.

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Catch-a-Fishie takes to the waves with the trawling skippers of Britain's North East coast. Behind the drama of the hunt for fish there is the story of a community in steep decline and songs that will soon be heard no more.

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The film is a factual film about a cycleride across the County of Cheshire.

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Flowers Don't Grow Here, told through the eyes of a gang of Ukrainian street children, offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of the young individuals paying the ultimate price for political reform. A life so at odds with 'New Europe': a childhood haunted by prostitution, addiction, crime, violence and murder.

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Shot over three years in the USA, India and Mexico, Garbage Warrior is a feature length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico, and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living. A snapshot of contemporary geo-politics and an inspirational tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world.  

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Observational documentary series following members of a British Super Bike Team through their 2005 racing season. VIP access to things you would never usually see.  

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'The living mythology of gold in Ghana'. Heart of Gold is a poetic documentary exploring the changing relationship people in the Akim Abuakwa region of Ghana have with gold.