Projects in genres: Human Rights

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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.

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The Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history’s most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike. No experts. No politicians. Thirty years on, this is the raw first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. Follow the highs and lows of that life-changing year.

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As editor of The Sunday Times for fourteen years, Sir Harold Evans proved to be the right man in the right place at the right time. In an investigative climate all too rare by today's standards, Evans had the freedom and resources to allow teams of journalists to work on long-term projects, including the exposure of Kim Philby as a Soviet spy. Evans' longest and most hard fought campaign was for the victims of Thalidomide. Originally developed by the Germans in World War II to counter effect sarin gas, post-war the drug was blithely prescribed by British doctors as an antidote to morning sickness, unwittingly leading to tens of thousands of children being born with serious defects. The Sunday Times' fight to win compensation for their struggling families would take more than a decade, as Evans tenaciously pursued the drug companies through the English courts and beyond.
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 - World premiere

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One night in December 1995, four tons of weapons fall from the sky over India. A few days later a Danish man returns to Denmark with a grave secret. Only when an English arms dealer is arrested in India and faces death does the Dane appear in the large scale international investigation of the case.
Göteborg Film Festival 2015 - World premiere