Projects in genres: LGBTQIA+

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From Sebastiane (1976) to Blue (1992), Derek Jarman’s films constantly interrogated time and art, and epitomised his own era. He was a painter, part of that moment that made sixties London a capital of the art world. He was a film-maker, perhaps the single most crucial figure of British independent cinema through the seventies, eighties and nineties. He lived as a gay man surfing the joys of Gay Liberation and the sorrows of Aids. He lived as a participant observer, noting with pen or camera all that passed before him - from punk to Thatcher, from Hampstead Heath to film premiere.

Now those images serve to place his art in his time, to produce a fascinating history that we can put to use. As well as the feature films and Super 8 films, which span three decades, there are the extensive video clips he recorded from the early seventies, for artists from the Smiths to the Pet Shop Boys, and from television to film festivals in Japan, Berlin and Cologne.

At the centre of the film is the time capsule that Derek left. Before his death, and in the midst of that great creative period that would produce Edward II, Caravaggio and Blue, he recorded a day long interview in 1990 with Colin MacCabe. It is his message in a bottle; a survey of his life from the point of view of his death; a talisman for the future.


 

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Young people follow the legacy of the iconic 2 Tone record label in their home city of Coventry. The city's most famous musical export being the band The Specials, who had the hits 'Ghost Town' and 'Gangsters'.

The film was made by Leofric Films and GYGL, funded by First Light Movies.

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A masterclass of minimalist expressionism by a class master. Dave Heron provides 33 classic expressions as a unique guide for all budding actors, two faced gits and prospective brazen liars.

'Dave taught me everything I know about acting' - L. Olivier.

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How much would you reveal for love? Oh Happy Day is a gay romantic comedy about two guys who have a one-night stand - the weekend before they start working together.

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Yorkshire, England 1952. Ruth Ackroyd, leaves the monotony of her work in her father's textile mill on a Friday afternoon, and secretly takes the train to Manchester. There she meets a man on the platform, but all is not what it seems.

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A short thriller in which a young man’s physiognomy betrays his past, drives his destiny and influences the dynamics of his new relationship when he gets more than he’d bargained for.

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David has never felt at home where he lives in the English countryside. He's known since he was very young that he was different and now that he's fifteen he's decided to come out that he is gay. After being thrown out of his foster home and continually bullied at school, the village where he lives has turned its back on David.

But now David has the chance to show everyone in the village who he really is. For over a hundred years the annual summer carnival has been a celebration of traditional family values in the village that all its in inhabitants of all ages get involved in. Each year the prettiest young girl in the town is paraded through the main square as the carnival queen. But this year the festivities are going to be turned on their head,  because this year David is the first ever gay male carnival queen. Under huge pressure from the locals who feel he is bringing shame on their village- David, in his lilac dress, is determined to stand up be proud of himself in front of all his doubters.

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A story of pregnancy told through the eyes of Gwen, her partner and their chosen donor. Sparky, is the successful result of fertility treatment, forming bonds outside of their sexuality, and creating extended families across the world.

Choice conversations, glimpse anecdotes, and an unobtrusive camera, combine to create an intense reminder of personal modern day achievement.

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A casual encounter with a stranger brings our hero, Adam, to the attention of powerful, unseen forces. They take away his job as an IT teacher and follow his every move. Adam does not know it but the stranger he met in a bar planted evidence of an affair with a gay Royal. Forced to go on the run, Adam turns to the only two people he thinks he can trust: his disapproving father and a female reporter, Amy.

Amy was Adam's teenage girlfriend, and he broke her heart when he told her he was gay. With few resources, and an increasingly desperate and murderous adversary, Adam has to dig deep and become a hero as he searches for the truth.


 

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Terry is an average gay guy, searching for love, but hardly noticed in a looks and body orientated London gay scene.

Coming home alone from a night of clubbing - again - Terry logs on to one of the many gay pick up sites available on the Internet.

With nothing but sleazy men, timewasters and strange men on line, Terry almost gives up on meeting the man of his dreams until a magic website promises him otherwise.

Suddenly given the powers to change his body to anything he describes himself as on-line, Terry starts to conjure up an array of gorgeous looks for himself. But as he embarks on a string of sexual encounters, Terry has to discover the hard way that beauty really is only skin deep.
 

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Ann leads a conventional existence in a middle-class suburb, but one day a crossword clue makes her realise that she has lost her joy in life. This is the strange story of how she regains it and finds that life is more interesting, mysterious and sexy than she ever imagined.

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A neo-Nazi skinhead is apprehended because he has attacked two black teenage boys. As we are taken backwards through the story we realise that things may not be as 'Black and White' as they appear.
 
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