Projects in categories: Documentary

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Veteran explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, who spent weeks in a coma battling Covid-19, says the healing power of nature helped to save his life.
This film follows this extraordinary 84-year-old as he climbs the highest hill in Cornwall in a quest to raise £100,000 for Royal Cornwall Hospital's healing garden.

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Peter Bromley's new documentary is on the artist Clare French. The film highlights French's unique working art practice in her Thamesmead based studio. Interviews with French explain how her art comes together and why. Clare’s reductive, monochrome practice considers the constructed, protean nature of human systems of meaning.

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Edgar Wright (BABY DRIVER, HOT FUZZ) directs a loving, hilarious and career-spanning look at the brothers Mael, 50 years and 25 albums deep into a career that has seen them traverse more genres, audiences and career revivals than any artist could have endured alone.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - World Premiere

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A documentary capturing portraits and voices of young people living in rural communities in the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbria, where personal identity and place are found to be closely intertwined.

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AN INTERMISSION is a portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness. For over a year and a half, they worked collaboratively with artist Edwin Mingard to make a film to express their views to the wider world.
Official Selection IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) 2020

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Shot over one night in the loud, dimly lit printing press, this is the story of the men whose labour lies behind Sierra Leone's oldest daily newspaper.

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When the Covid-19 Pandemic hit Iran, amongst ongoing international sanctions, a filmmaker cut adrift from his crew began documenting his life from lockdown. An intimate portrait of life in Iran during the coronavirus outbreak.

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More than one in three Turkish women have experienced domestic violence and the number of femicides is rising. But some Turkish women are fighting back. Ipek Bozkurt, a courageous lawyer, is determined to challenge this misogynistic violence by putting abusive men behind bars.
Working with a group of activists, Ipek is fighting to get justice for two survivors of horrific violence- Arzu, married off at 14 to a farmer ten years her senior and Kubra, a successful and glamorous TV presenter. From very different backgrounds, both were lucky to survive the attacks by their partners.
In the middle of these case, Turkey is rocked by an attempted coup that shakes Ipek’s world and puts her in jeopardy. Lawyers start to be threatened by an increasingly repressive government looking to crack down on all opposition. She must fight for democracy while continuing to fight for Kubra and Arzu.
Filmed over 5 years, DYING TO DIVORCE takes viewers into the heart of Turkey's gender-based violence crisis and the recent political events that have severely eroded democratic freedoms. Through intimately shot personal stories, the film gives a unique perspective on the struggle to be an independent woman in modern Turkey.
Official Selection Hot Docs Festival 2021 - Persister - North American premiere

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After fifty years in the business, Mr. David Raven still performs as ‘Maisie Trollette’, Britain’s Oldest Drag Artiste.

David’s 85th is fast approaching and a special birthday performance has been arranged. At 87, Walter Cole is The Guinness Book Of Records Oldest Performing Drag Queen in the World and he is flying over from America to meet David for the first time. But professional rivalries soon flare, and as his birthday grows nearer, David must deal with the unique challenges that old age brings. He has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but ever the professional, 'Maisie’ gives the performance of a lifetime as she looks back on half-a-century of entertaining.

Featuring classics such as 'Lady is a Tramp’ and 'If I Never Sing Another Song', MAISIE is a heart-warming and often heart-breaking peek into the world of a character more colourful than his gowns.
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2021 - Rhyme and Rhythm

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A documentary about hyper-creative grassroots filmmaker, Neil Nevada.

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In this unfiltered portrait comprised of prose and pirouettes, Marie-Astrid Mence narrates her uncomfortable journey from adolescent to ballerina and her struggles in an industry that fails to see past her skin colour.

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A Black queer elder and a young adult meet for the first time, as they prepare to embark on a journey around their city by the sea. SPACE/ WALK is a joyfully honest exploration of surviving and thriving within an atmosphere that was never designed to support their existence.