Projects in categories: Documentary

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A documentary feature film on the contemporary custom motorcycle culture. It's not a film about motorcycles, it's a film about motorcycle people. The philosophy of individualism is embedded in motorcycling. Modifying, customising, changing bikes is at the very heart of the biker. The scene is a paradox where analogue values are promoted through the digital world. A movement that harks back to old school values only made possible through the online portal of social media. Young people are engaging with motorcycling once again. There has been a massive influx of women into motorcycling. Standards of design and engineering continue to surge forward, with better and bolder bikes being created as builders continue to hone their skills and push forward their imaginative boundaries. The manufacturers have engaged with builders, facilitated and collaborated on projects, and helped individual builders direct and fine-tune their small businesses. We've witnessed a revitalisation of the motorbike. The motorcycling industry has finally started listening to bikers, and the wider motorcycle culture is benefiting. Motorbikes have become cool again.

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A couple visit a holiday home, where they re-enact scenes of powerplay and desire from classic films. Conversations and tensions explore their dynamic and how they relate to cinematic representations.

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Following a 21-year-old artist suffering from a various mental disorders, including severe perfectionism, she will do up to 10 copies of her work, often throwing it away. After a week of practice with a tattoo gun, will she be able to tattoo someone for the first time?

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Sex education. Awkward memories, right? Boys and girls separated, a flustered teacher, the bare biological facts and a dose of shame. In the Netherlands, they do things differently. Children from the age of four learn to talk about their bodies and sexuality in an open and frank manner. This documentary observes a diverse group of pre-teens from Amsterdam, having a candid conversation about their changing bodies with an inspiring teacher. This isn’t just a sex ed class, this is an anti-shame class. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand

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Based on Pilvi Takala’s experiences during an intervention at Second Home, East London (a co-working space for entrepreneurs and startups). During the two week-long intervention Takala posed as a wellness consultant, the founder of cutting-edge company 'Personnel Touch' who were allegedly employed by Second Home to provide touching services in the workplace. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand

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An intimate portrait of those dealing with their dead, supported during the ritual of care after death by a team of women who are ‘giving death back to the people’. For nearly twenty years, a small team of women in Brighton have been changing the way people look after their dead. Supporting them to participate during the ritual of care after death and empowering all regardless of limited finances. Cara is passionate and believes in power to the people, challenging many of the accepted, traditional and often secretive ways of corporate funeral directors. This relatively unknown work is part of an emerging movement confronting the way death is approached in modern Britain. With extraordinary access, we follow three groups of people from the point of death of their loved one through to the ceremony.

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Following a new women's movement emerging in the USA, through the story of a Chicago divorcée. ‘Fascinating Womanhood’ encourages women to reject feminism and revert to the values of 1950s housewives. Jenny is the movement’s most dedicated follower but her devotion is causing rifts with her friends and LGBT daughter.

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Documentary filmmaker Michael Lebor follows congenial, entertainer, Buddy Munro, as he leaves Britain to try his luck in “Nollywood” Nigeria, the second biggest producer of movies in the world. Within moments of arriving, Buddy is welcomed by a vibrant film community with open arms and warm smiles, and through a series of serendipitous events becomes a celebrity within ten days. Buddy’s extraordinary outgoing personality conceals a childhood tragedy yet, as he embraces Nigerian culture, leaving laughter and bemusement in his wake, he achieves more in one week than he had done in his entire career.

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The story of a nervous collapse and descent into madness. Lost in a nightmare of visions, voices and words, a con-artist is forced to search for an elusive figure manhunted by a vicious criminal gang. "You know what life is? It's your last chance. A day never goes by again." An eclectically scored experimental docu-mystery.

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The Demailly family have lived in the same area of Eastern Paris for over a century. Filmmaker Peter Bromley captures the lives of this working class family at a time of political, social and cultural changes in French society. His film asks what does it mean to be French today?

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The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, the man poised to be the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his life forever at the age of only 31.

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An animated documentary about a woman who turns into a castle based on Oliver Sacks Case study.