Projects in categories: Documentary

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Victoria Sin unapologetically takes up space when they are in drag, giving spotlight and agency to the daily labours of femininity that are invisible and policed.
Commissioned by NOWNESS, this film demonstrates the transformative power of Victoria's drag, positioning Victoria where they belong - in cinematic grandeur, with a gaze that they own.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand - Short Film Competition - World premiere

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Tracing the movements of the New Silk Road, this essay-documentary follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe.
Mapped through footage, interviews, field recordings and found WeChat videos; government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods. 'Paralogisticians' hack infrastructural space through transnational guanxi and long distance friendships. Desert sands made restless by Westerly winds disrupt roads, railways and sometimes engulf whole cities. Through a disorientation of the senses – bodies and landscapes become mobile.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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An enduring love story of one man's time in London during the early 1960s. Coming of age as a young homosexual in a society where male gay sex was illegal and prejudice ran deep, Bryan Robert Bale discovered the illicit ways gay men still sought to love freely.
BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British Short Film

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Mediation through image and sound exploring the means and the end.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Exploring the remarkable life and career of Bill Shankly, the legendary Liverpool Football Club manager.
A search for the soul of British football: a soul made human in the remarkable life of one man. Perhaps no-one before or since has personified the spirit of the working class culture that gave birth to the modern game. Bill Shankly’s passion for football was boundless to the point of obsession.

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Shogun is an unsigned grime MC, with a determination to put Scottish rap on the map.
When you think of Grime music, Scotland probably isn’t the first place that springs to mind, but one Paisley-based 19 year old, Joe Heron AKA Shogun, is working hard to expand the scope of the UK’s most exciting genre. He's already racked up over 2 million views on YouTube.
Official Selection BFI London FIlm Festival 2017 - Create Strand

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As Ellice gets low, her room gets messy - she never sees it coming, but it always happens. There seems to be no way to break out of the endless highs or lows that make up bipolar, or even to pick up her clothes up off the floor.

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Alex Gibney reopens the mysterious unsolved case revolving the 1994 Loughinisland massacre. On 18 June, in the small village of Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, six men were brutally murdered and a few others were wounded in a pub while watching the World Cup soccer match. Despite a long investigation by the police and many confusing leads, no perpetrators of the attack were ever found.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - International premiere

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Rudolf Nureyev was in every sense 'Made In Russia'. It would be hard to imagine a character of such conflicting passion, ego, obsession, talent, triumph and tragedy emerging from anywhere other than Russia.

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“CLAPTON IS GOD”. With these words graffitied across London, Eric Clapton became the ultimate guitar hero. He is the only ever three-time-inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an 18-time Grammy Award-winner, and widely renowned as one of the greatest performers of all time. But behind the scenes lay restlessness and tragedy. The insatiable search to grow his artistic voice left fans surprised as he constantly quit successful bands, from the groundbreaking Yardbirds to 1960s super-group Cream. His isolated pursuit of his craft, and fear of selling out, served as a catalyst for his evolution as an artist.
Stretching from his traumatic childhood living in a “house of secrets”, to his long and difficult struggle with drugs and alcohol, and the tragic loss of his son in a heart-breaking accident, Eric Clapton always found an inner strength and healing in music. Told through his own words and songs, as well as those of his family, friends, musical collaborators, contemporaries and many heroes – including BB King, Jimi Hendrix and George Harrison.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - TIFF Docs - World premiere

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A feature length documentary on the life and work of Sir Ian McKellen. Fully authorised, including access to private photo albums and a wealth of never-before-seen archive material, including diaries written when he was 12 and unseen behind the scenes of theatre shows and films.
The documentary is built around a 14 hour interview covering everything from his upbringing to becoming a theatre star, to coming out and being a leader in the gay rights movement, to his film stardom from Magneto to Gandalf, and personal thoughts on everything from acting to old age and death.

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A vivid portrait of Tom Sietas, a world record in Static Apnea, the ability to hold one’s breath underwater. Combining underwater imagery with a contemporary dance sequence the film reveals what drives Tom to push his body to such physical extremes; for Tom to deny breath is to find life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere