Projects in genres: Human Rights

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A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights for African Americans – a dangerous and terrifying three-month campaign that culminated in the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
Berlin International Film Festival 2015 - International premiere

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A seemingly normal car journey crosses from present reality into a recurring nightmare as Hamoudi, a young victim of war, relives his traumatic experiences of the Baghdad Blackwater shootings.

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In a pre-hearing interview, a policeman trying to uphold his moral duties clashes against a manipulative, image-driven superior officer, hell-bent on fictionalising the events of a high-profile crime.

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In a pre-hearing interview, a policeman trying to uphold his moral duties clashes against a manipulative, image-driven superior officer, hell-bent on fictionalising the events of a high-profile crime.

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Looking back at his visits to Poland and East Germany many years later, the filmmaker questions idealised imaginings of life in other places, times and political systems.

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A cold and isolated transgender sex worker takes in a young girl who has been abandoned by her mother, and her life is thrown into question.

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The film, an investigative thriller, based on actual real events occurring globally today, tells the story of two British journalists that by chance, discover aviation's biggest cover-up. A serious in flight incident not disclosed by JASP Airlines reveals a hidden truth. Their investigation soon seeks to prove passengers have been knowingly put at risk since the 1950s. When new airline CEO discovers the darker side of the airline industry and its secret campaign of denial being withheld by airline owner, he is faced with the moral dilemma. Corporate profit or the public's safety? The film reveals facts that every airline passenger should watch before they next fly.

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Set in London, S is a raw and uncompromising docudrama about an Eastern-European sex worker and her pimp. A politically conscious account of one of the most worrying phenomena in 21st-century Europe, it concentrates on two individuals and their soul-killing love-hate relationship against the backdrop of sex-trafficking, prostitution and poverty.

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A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Set in coalition Britain amidst the crisis of capitalism, the UK government launches their flagship deception of ‘The Big Society’ from Liverpool. Connor, a disillusioned 15-year old sits alone in his cell.  He understands the lie: We’re not 'all in this together' like the man on the TV says.  Bullied and taunted by the other young offenders, Connor’s only hope is Linda, his Social Worker, who he has come to trust.  But what happens when Linda’s job is threatened, will she be able to find a way to care for him? When no one hears you shout…Sing.
A surreal and gritty musical set against the backdrop of the UK economic cuts.

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Gloucestershire, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world’s first smallpox vaccine.

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A forensic examination of memory and place.
The hidden history of the Roma Holocaust told through the testimony of five witnesses and survivors. Seventy years after the event they are still living next-door to the mass graves…some marked, but others long forgotten amongst the forests and wheat fields of Poland.