Projects in categories: Documentary

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The cobbler is that rare combination: both individual and architype, both a face and a body. To his customers whose shoes are coming to pieces, he's the man who can fix anything. His shop, located in the middle of Gatesheads Jewish Community, is a mirror that reþects back to the viewer a picture of some of the salient social and psychological processes that underlie our culture.

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Mervyn is deaf and recently has become blind. Mervyn perseveres through this. The lifecycle of a butterfly, memory and the simple act of making a cup of tea are entwined in this film. What is the sound of the sea to a man who has never heard?

Awards
RTS Student Award

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Two buskers, Simon Jackson and Rocco D'Aranno, play in the network of pedestrian tunnels, that lie under London's busy roads. Shot in a verite style, the film takes us on an intimate journey that not only explores their music, but also the faultlines that define their lives and their relationship with one another.

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A fly-on-the-wall documentary comedy following the Likely Lads, a young British barbershop quartet from Leeds, on their journey to compete at the International Barbershop Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. A character study of the four lads as they prepare to sing for Britain, and a behind-the-scenes look at this bizarre subculture.

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A powerful short film about a young black man who believes he is Muhammed Ali. Based on a ten month study carried out by the film's director Rodreguez King-Dorset for the Department of Health, to explore the issues relating to schizophrenia within black African Caribbean populations living in rural England.

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Anti-Racist Neo-Nazi campaign film for Norwegian State TV.

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a man, no horse, no gun

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The story of a legendary battle between cavalrymen. June 1940, the unbeatable German advance was forcing the French army to surrender. The cadets of the school of cavalry in Saumur were about to become the first members of the 'Resistance' as they put up a heroic defence against overwhelming odds.

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AIPS is an observational piece, exploring the very private world of re-enactment. It focuses on a Kent-based group who play the roles of both a US and a Vietcong unit, six weekends a year. They aim to recreate 'living history' by dressing, camping and eating as authentically as possible.

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Conceptual artist Ryan Exidore attempts the greatest performance of his life. Having been caught with a truck load of drugs he must use the art of spin to convince a high court jury that they were all for personal consumption.

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"We were sexy, stylish, we had short sharp songs. We had a kind of manifesto, which was that we were against everything else that was around at the time - which probably accounts for our almost complete lack of success." Singer Pat Reid looks back on his band, the heroically ill-fated Evangelista.

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Linda St Clair, the notorious dominatrix better known as 'Miss Whiplash', has left her kinky dungeon in London and retired to a farm in Herefordshire. She is seen in her new role as a 'duckherd', giving handy hints on recycling old instruments of torture and demonstrating the correct use of a bollock crusher.