Projects in categories: Documentary

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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.

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Liverpool, England. A Chinese Grocery. Three women sit making dumplings. Conversation turns to traditions, relationships and men and we discover that although distinctly Chinese, their subjects are universal concerns. A gentle informal picture of the women's everyday struggles framed by the distinctive Liverpool skyline and infused with a warm humour.

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In the 1960s soul singer Geno Washington was a young, black American GI based in East Anglia coping with racism amongst his fellow airmen. Returning to Suffolk after an absence of 40 years he tells the story of how blatant racial abuse didn't stop him discovering his exceptional talent.

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A light-hearted look at one of the countries fastest growing sports - ladies football. The documentary features 'Hitchin Ladies FC' and follows key players and the coaches, including ex Luton town football star, Baz Lesnick, as they prepare for their first season playing for Hitchin.

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People dance in private moments of personal abandon, in living-rooms across London during the summer of 2001. By turns comic and moving, the film is the result of the director's work with respondents to an advertisement seeking 'living-room dancers' - people who like to dance behind closed doors.

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Blinded in 1976, Martin Shail now works as a lift operator. This film intimately portrays Martin's experiences since becoming blind and captures his encounters with the various people he meets in his lift.