Projects in categories: Documentary

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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.

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We think of the arctic as a pristine wilderness, and when scientists went to collect breastmilk from Inuit mothers, they were expecting to find the purest milk anywhere on earth. But the levels went off the scale. The milk of the Inuit mothers was loaded with chemicals migrating from the south. Set in the wilderness of the Canadian Arctic, Invisible tells the story of how man-made chemicals are building up in our bodies and being passed from mother to child in the womb and through breastfeeding. It is thought that these hormone disrupting chemicals are causing havoc with the reproductive systems, neurological health and immune systems of animals and humans across the planet. Today scientists cannot find a single woman anywhere in the world who does not have chemicals such as flame retardants in her breast milk. In this beautiful and thought-provoking film, artist and film maker Roz Mortimer takes us on a hypnotic journey to the high arctic. Featuring throatsinging performances from Tagaq, medieval texts and epic scenes of contemporary Inuit life, this film resists conventions of science documentary and questions how we live in the world today. Filmed entirely on Baffin Island, Nunavut, in the communities of Iqaluit and Qikiqtarjuaq.   Website: www.wonder-dog.co.uk/invisible

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Designed as a hospital for well-off patients, the Israel American Medical Center has been going up in Tel Aviv since 1968, but it has never been finished. The architect who designed this building is invited to re-visit his unfinished work and venture into what were to have been huge emergency wards, splendid private rooms for patients and well-equipped physicians' surgeries. The abrasive contrast between desire and reality and between expectations and frustrations is present in this film.

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Raja Khan is a man on a mission. He's persuaded his childhood friend Big John who owns chip shop chain Big Johns to invest millions into his dream - his won TV station. Raj wants to create his own station for British Asians, but he has a David Brent style of management and has gathered young Asian graduates who are desperate to get in to TV to make his programmes. Raj is facing a deadline, he has only 3 months to get his channel on air or he'll lose his channel. The pressure is on.