Projects in categories: Documentary

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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.

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Commissioned by Carlton TV as part of the First Cut 2003 series.   A day in the life of an historic English city park. In sunlight the green and pleasant place is a leafy haven for all sorts of harmless pastimes.   But as darkness descends a more threatening character emerges.

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One day you might have the misfortune to find yourself both dead and in the Midlands. But rest easy, knowing there are people, good people you can call upon. There are People To Contact When You're Dead In The Midlands. A short story that's largely about mediums.

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Perfectly Frank is the moving tale of architect Frank Gehry's desire to design a very special building in memory of a dear friend - the eponymous Maggie's Centre, a Cancer support centre in Dundee, Scotland.

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After nine years of insomnia, a man decides enough is enough. He goes to meet the very things which help him get to sleep at night - three flying pigs - but will this lead to a permanent cure?

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A character study of the relationship between a professional poker playing mother and her film making daughter, set against the backdrop of the World Series of Poker.