Projects in categories: Documentary

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Dramatic, moving and insightful, ARMSTRONG offers the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in rural Ohio to his first steps on the Moon - and the unsought-after celebrity status that ensued. It is the story of a man who was an aviator, astronaut, husband, father and reluctant hero.

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Al Pitcher may be a star in Sweden, but will he ever be as big as the Mjölby potato or the Edsbyn Bandy stick? A stand up comedy road movie where UK comedian Al Pitcher finds out what it really means to be Big in Sweden. Over the last decade, Al Pitcher has become one of Sweden’s best loved stand up comedians. Sold out shows, television appearances and an army of fans. Al Pitcher is BIG IN SWEDEN. Travel through the beauty of Sweden and be amazed by Giant Potatoes, Enormous Coathangers and Gigantic Cheese Slicers! This is a journey of discovery, an insight into how a comedian finds the funny, and an affectionate tribute to the less well known side of Sweden, Al Pitcher’s adoptive country.

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Exploring Oscar and BAFTA-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young's early works - Outlining Young’s location within a lineage of visual artists who he always claims as inspirations as well as echo chambers, and who are actively formulating a new black aesthetics. (liquid blackness)

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A homage to the 20-year journey of renowned professor and activist Rok Ajulu. Filmed across six countries, in multiple formats, it follows Rok’s account of his struggles as an exiled freedom fighter of the post-colonial era. In conversation with his daughter, he tells of his numerous deportations, prison sentences, and academic career. As Rok recounts the collapse of the apartheid regime, BREAKFAST IN KISUMU shows us a homecoming: his journey back to Africa for the transition of the African National Congress (ANC) from liberation movement to governing party, his marriage into the Sisulu Family, and the continental significance of 1994. Official Selection IDFA 2019 - IDFA Competition for Short Documentary - International premiere

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Working with artist Neil Ferguson, filmmaker Peter Bromley visits the homes of Marcel Duchamp and Gustave Flaubert. They explore their art and literary works partly through the performance of art actions. Filmed in London, Varengeville sur Mer and the City of Rouen.

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In 1984 music producer Gary Davis left early recording success in New Jersey and New York City for a fresh start in Florida. From his new home he got working - making over 40 feature length kung fu, zombie and blaxploitation movies, while also helping birth a new sound in hip hop; Miami booty bass. Gary pushes against deep rooted racism and all the hurdles of life to make his art, with an eccentric cast of locals helping along the way. This film mixes archival footage, the films and music of Gary Davis, interviews and a few non sequiturs to paint a fever dream portrait of this determined artist.

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Connor and Lewis are twins who are part of a family who have a point of differentness which has a profound impact on the lives of all five family members. After months of fighting and no communication, the two of them come together to spend a day in Canvey Island. Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Journey Strand

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Three characters search for meaning in an urban weed. The Narrator pursues perdikaki to find the woman first seen picking it, yet as observations accumulate a shadow researcher emerges. Is Kyria’s knowledge being sought, or the Collector’s? And, other than the symbolic plant, do the other figures exist at all?

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The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by his country upon his return after the Iranian revolution. Over images of a young boy playing the accordion in a home movie from 1940’s America, a radio host comments on the trial that was to ruin Lloyd Miller´s life decades later in the Eighties – for charges he was innocent of. The images of the young boy are quickly replaced with images of an Iranian TV show from the 1970’s, where a sharply dressed man named Kurosh Ali Khan is being interviewed in Farsi about his musical creation, Oriental Jazz. Music kicks in, and now we see the man presented in a video, much younger, playing the santur, a Persian instrument, accompanied by jazz. A voice begins to narrate, in the third person, the story of Kurosh, an American man who is forced by political circumstances to leave the country he’s considered his only real home for seven years. He is on his way back to America, leaving his life as a famous TV host behind him.

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An intimate portrait of Hobbit and Jake, who have decided to raise their one-year-old child Anoush gender open. The family lives on a houseboat in the UK and in order to prevent people from making gender-related assumptions, they are keeping the biological sex of their baby a secret. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Debate Strand

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You might think America is a democracy, where freedom of speech and basic rights are guaranteed. But at its heart, there is a great injustice. Against all the odds several extraordinary citizens are banding together and fighting back for their basic right to clean water. Armed only with facts and their illnesses, they risk arrest to take on the might of industry and government. From Flint to the Navajo Nation, via Standing Rock, this is their story.

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Anthony Godby Johnson was an early 1990s New York City miracle: a boy who escaped years of horrific abuse only to discover that he was dying of AIDS. A boy who authored his own autobiography. A boy who earned friends and fans worldwide—and who did not exist. DOK Leipzig • International Competition • World Premiere London Short Film Festival • Official Selection Flatpack Film Festival • Official Selection Manchester Film Festival • Official Selection