Projects in categories: Documentary

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On a transatlantic quest to discover the identity of The Muse, filmmaker and artist Kathy Hill asks other creatives "What Inspires You? Is It Divine?" Features interviws with movie star Rutger Hauer, Oxford Classic don Jasper Griffin, Hollywood Script Consultant Linda Seger and Bafta Award winning film director Ben Hopkins.

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Kawah Ijen is an active volcano. It is also the site of labour intensive sulpher mining. There is no machinery, only a stream of hardy local labourers.
 
A contemporary twist on the myth of Sisyphus, the film follows these miners on their gruelling journey - from crater to wage clerk - ultimately questioning the ritual of labour.

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Imagine what it must feel like to be forced to leave everything you know and love in order to stay alive. This was the situation for Jean Baptiste, a journalist in Rwanda. Letters Home is a poignant and very personal portrayal of his experiences since arriving in England as a refugee, through his letters home to his family.

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Marc Isaacs sets himself up in an East End of London tower block lift with his camera and waits for new residents to reveal their lives. The result is both funny and moving. Sometimes the residents ignore him. One of them offers him food and a lady sticks holy pictures above his head.

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The men of the London Irish are made up of people from all walks of life: Accountants, Solicitors, Builders, Chefs - Disparate, different individuals who come together regularly to become a cohesive fighting force constantly honing their skills. Here they go on a shooting weekend at the Ranges completing the Annual Personnal weapons test and also practicing on the ardous Individual battle kills range. London Irish at the Ranges is a short documentary produced and directed by Tipu Sultan.

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Ed Dowie is blessed with an egalitarian spirit, though his attempts at optimism and his enjoyment of life are marred by kidney failure. For Ed this creates a constant cycle of treatment and recovery very much like the tidal movements of the sea. This portrait focuses on Ed's character and reflections whilst also showing Ed in his element, creating music.

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Finding Mr. Right is apparently as difficult at eight as it is at eighty. Love Takes is a portrait of love in the 21st century, detailing the places that love takes us and leaves us as we fall in and out of love over a lifetime. Combining documentary DV footage with digital design the film explores what we talk about when we talk about love.

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'Summer wouldn't be summer without matsuri. Unless you see it, you don't believe what it is like.'

This documentary is a unique comparison of traditional Japanese and English fairs. It observes why both fairs have survived for generations and why they still attract people despite oppressive heat or pouring rain.

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Like an alien spacecraft landed on a poisoned wasteland, the Millenium Dome makes a fitting tribute to the works of New Labour. Taking the dome as a potent architectural symbol of the new millennium, MM is a meditation upon time reflecting the changing landscape in London's East End.

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Mother/Country is a stunningly filmed, intimate experimental documentary. The film charts the director's return journey back to her Mother's house 20 years after the Iranian Revolution. Through the development of fiction with actors, the filmmaker attempts to unravel the events of the past and to find resolution.

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Only two men still use their Mudhorses to fish on the mudflats at Stolford. Brendan and Adrian Sellick are the last of the Mudhorse Fishermen, sliding across the mud to their nets.

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A personal journey to the Caribbean island of Trinidad exploring carnival, catholicism and homosexuality.