Projects in categories: Documentary

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A physically disabled man treks to Everest Base Camp on horseback, yet when the mountain puts his life on the line, he's forced to question how far he's willing to go, just to fit in.

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At the Dawn of Heavy Metal, the sun rose to the beat of Lee Kerslake's drums. Through his halcyon days with Uriah Heep, his controversial times with Ozzy Osbourne and his potentially career ending illnesses, this film follows Lee as he attempts to overcome his greatest obstacles. It celebrates his immortal music, but also his courageous confrontation with his own mortality.
The film features rock icons from bands like Uriah Heep, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, KISS, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. This is Lee's tribe, and they come together for him in his final triumphant years. Lee was a founding member, songwriter, singer and drummer for Uriah Heep. It tells the magnificent story of Lee through his time as the drummer who propelled the first two classic Ozzy Osbourne albums and was inducted in the Hall of Heavy Metal History!
Lee Kerslake has sold 60 million albums worldwide with multiple silver, gold and platinum albums. He was inducted into the ‘Metal Hall of Fame’ in 2019.
Special appearances in the film by: Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Gene Simmons (Kiss), Mick Box (Uriah Heep), Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep), Bob Daisley (Uriah Heep, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne)

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A new mother discovers dark feelings stirring up inside her at night. This docu-fictional essay film takes us on a surrealist journey into a mother’s subconscious.
Official selection Bolton International Film Festival 2023 - UK premiere

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A moving scrapbook of opinions and advice about love in Sierra Leone.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024 - International premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Following five queer Nigerians living in the UK as they document their lives through audio diaries. From childhood to the present, participants share stories that explore how universal ideas of family, love, and finding oneself are obfuscated within the intersection of Blackness, African-ness, and Queerness.
Official Selection Encounters International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Winner Short Film Competition

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A heavenly inquiry lands in a village to inspect the sleep of a peasant and his renegade goose. Led by the hums of a spectral apparatus, the visitation detects esoteric frequencies from a spiritual reality cloaked in the peasant's home and land.
Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition

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A boy takes his 2 year-old sister on a tour of the solar system.
Official Selection Hamburg International KurzFilmfFestival 2023 - World premiere

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At the dawn of the American West, two men - one a little-known Creole, the other a closeted historical icon - entered into a volatile relationship that spanned a continent.
Official Selection DOK Leipzig 2023

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If British police ask for the password to your phone or computer, you must hand it over to them in accordance with an anti-terror law that came into force before 9/11. When human rights activist Muhammad Rabbani refuses and is prosecuted, a journalist is able to uncover documents proving the existence of a top-secret surveillance programme, codenamed Phantom Parrot, designed to copy the personal data of individuals at airports and border crossings – and people from minority backgrounds are often the first to be pulled aside.
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2023

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Colourblind artist Neil Harbisson is the world’s first formally recognised cyborg. He has an antenna implanted in his head that allows him to hear colour. Now Neil is on a mission to convince the world to follow him and adopt his credo: Design Yourself.
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Warsaw International Film Festival 2023

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Stephen Fry’s personal journey and essay tells the amazing story of how a group of Amsterdam’s artists, musicians and members of the LGBTQ+ community, pulled off one of the most daring and far-reaching acts of sabotage in the history of the Dutch resistance.
Willem, a gay artist, and Frieda, a Lesbian cellist, forged identity papers for Jews without a “J” on them but when the Nazis began to check the false paperwork against real files they came up with a daring plan to blow up the Central Records Office but without harming anyone.
Official Selection BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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A mother’s dream and a daughter’s beckoning - a love letter flowing through time, tenderly untangling knots in a family's unspoken past. Searching for answers that her mother and grandmother often brush aside, Chloe traces the reaches and limits of familial love. 
Official Selection True/False Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Documentary Competition
Winner BFI London Film Festival 2023 Audience Award for Best Documentary