Projects in categories: Documentary

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Special Delivery is a 30 minute documentary about the work of Ray Greaves; one man, who, in his big white van delivers hope to the Children of Chernobyl. This forty eight year old former miner, from Doncaster, has spent the past nine years raising money and collecting aid for the Zelenei Gai Children's radiation rehabilitation centre in Chernigov, near Chernobyl. To the doctors and nurses there, Ray is the reason they can continue with their treatment of young victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster. To the kids he's the English Santa Claus.

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Artist George Wylie's personal exploration of the many complications - engineering, political and corporate that accompany the building of a Crystal Ship, high above a bridge crossing the River Kelvin.

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One man's attempt to realise his dreams in the midst of the English countryside. Richard White is determined not to allow parking restrictions, his jealous crippled wife or reclusive neighbours to stand in his way of mounting a fully fledged production of a Mozart opera in his living room.

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Then and Now tells the story of a family from Iraq who left their home and came to live in Scotland five years ago. Mohammed, the father, was an officer in the Iraqi army. The programme tells how he was smuggled into Kurdistan as his wife and daughter escaped by another route. After a year waiting in a refugee camp in Turkey they were finally accepted as refugees in the U.K.

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The Toymaker works at a lump of wood. Gradually a shape begins to emerge.

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Why are so many Scots throwing off their clothes in wild abandon to embrace the mad midges and chilly climates of Scotland? Because it's liberating! These bodies wrinkled or smooth, plump or slender just want to be free to breathe in the open air. The last taboo has been broken and old fashioned 'textiles' will have to like it or lump it.

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The discovery of a shipwreck off Salcombe in Devon, uncovers much more than a glittering haul of Islamic coins and jewellery - it also reveals a forgotten time, when coastal Europe lived in terror of the 'Barbary Pirates', buccaneers from North Africa. Was the wreck an infamous Barbary 'xebec', on its way to another slave raid?

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As much documentary as it is religious art, as much religious art as it is rock and roll, as much rock and roll as it is rhetoric and as much rhetoric as it is cinema.
This unique, kaleidoscopic film is "a richly cinematic experience" inside the lives of worshippers from the congregation of The Greater Bethany Community Church, (now The City of Refuge), in South Central Los Angeles. Bishop Noel Jones, (brother of Grace Jones), is both shepherd and rock as the film weaves between community life, gospel song and his electric church sermons.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002 - World premiere
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2002
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2002

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Immaterial Terrain is made along a stretch of the UK coast around Sizewell nuclear power station. Camera in hand, Richardson walked this coastline. These walks – pilgrimages and acts of protest – structure a film that documents a singular and fragile landscape at an uncertain moment.
Official selection Slow Film Festival, London - World premiere

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A short hard-hitting film which explores the stark and disturbing complex racist mind of a Neo-Nazi. Based on the stabbing to death of a black boy by two Neo-Nazis in Norway and the hanging of another teenager in Britain in a racially motivated killing.

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Luton carnival is the biggest one-day carnival in Britain. By following three very different groups as they prepare for the big day, this documentary explores the importance of Luton carnival and how the event unites the community.

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A documentary profile exploring the work of the artist John Bellany. A life of spritiual turmoil and physical extremes has provided Scotland's most celebrated painter with a richness of material from which he ably expresses himself on canvas.