Projects in categories: Documentary

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A poetic study of the life and work of artist Margaret Benyon, pioneer in the artistic use of holography. Giving voice to the unsung legacy of a pioneering woman artist, 'A Blemished Code' is an impassioned meditation on the representation of female artists, the balancing of creative and domestic life, and the inherent tensions of being a woman working with new technology. The inner life of the subject is represented throughout by a brilliant musical score featuring sung script and compositions by Stevie Jones, Mai Mai, and Leigh Ferguson. (LFF brochure)
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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11 July 2013, 3AM. After months of training, under the cover of darkness six women begin their illegal ascent of the tallest building in Europe...
What spurred them on and what kept them going? Were they prepared to fail, or worse, to fall? Behind the climbers was a team of tacticians, climbing experts, supporters (and lawyers) who planned and rehearsed with them - but ultimately had to let them climb alone.
A story of courage, endurance and the power of teamwork.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Debate Strand - World premiere

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The Slits who formed in London in 1976 were the world's first all girl punk band. Contemporaries of bands such as The Clash and The Sex Pistols, they were the pioneering godmothers of the musical movement know as "Punky Reggae".
This documentary tells the story of the band and the lives of the women involved, from the band's inception in 1976 to the bands end in 2010 at the death of lead vocalist Ari Up.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - World premiere
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018

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A man seeks happiness and belonging in the company of the largest crowds he can find.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 - International premiere

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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