Projects in genres: Music

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Ronnie Wood is a genuine, 24-carat rock star guitarist. He has paid his dues, played hard, lived fast (in every sense) and somehow survived to tell the tale. And tell it he does, in this revealing, biographical documentary, which charts Wood’s stellar and storied career. From his childhood and entry into the 1960s music scene, through to his time with the Jeff Beck Group, achieving fame with The Faces alongside bandmate Rod Stewart and finally becoming an indispensable and permanent member of The Rolling Stones, Figgis captures it all. Featuring terrific archive footage, along with candid interviews with a very charismatic Wood and his many legendary friends, this is the perfect rock and roll treat. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Create Strand - World premiere Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2020 - Spotlight Documentary

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Exploring how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, when a group of artists united to take on the National Front, armed only with a fanzine and a love of music. Developed from Rubika Shah's short film WHITE RIOT: LONDON (Sundance 2017, Berlin 2017). Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Competition - World premiere Winner Grierson Award for Best Documentary, BFI London Film Festival 2019 Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Generation 14plus - International premiere

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Chuck Berry was the absolute instigator of Rock and Roll. Despite his iconic status, and reverence for his talent by rock’s heroes including: John Lennon; Bruce Springsteen; Keith Richards; Steve Van Zandt; Joe Perry; Alice Cooper; Berry was a family man. He was a prolific craftsman of word and chords, an undisputed and stunning combination of talent and charisma. Award-winning Director and Producer Jon Brewer ('BB KING: THE LIFE OF RILEY, 'NAT KING COLE: AFRAID OF THE DARK), was personally selected by the Berry Estate to produce and direct this exclusive insight to the man known as the bedrock of Rock and Roll. Official Selection Nashville Film Festival 2019

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A six-story complex interwoven drama filmed around the world based on their individual dependencies.

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A meditation on landscape, and a celebration of the words of Scots poet and writer Nan Shepherd (1893–1981). The film brings together elements of choreography (by Simone Kenyon), fragments of Shepherd's text and a polyvocal score by Hanna Tuulikki.

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A gritty British drama set in modern-day London. Nearing her final year of school, Hilda’s aspirations hit rock bottom when she is forced to contend with the abandonment of her parents and the dependency of younger siblings. Determined to avoid the breakup of her family, she depends on dance to keep the enclosing chaos at bay. As people begin to vanish from Hilda's life, her only constant is music, but when it stops the silence is deafening.

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Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in THE WIZARD OF OZ, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of romance seem undimmed as she embarks on a courtship with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. And yet Judy is fragile. After working for 45 of her 47 years, she is exhausted; haunted by memories of a childhood lost to Hollywood; gripped by a desire to be back home with her kids. Will she have the strength to go on? Featuring some of her best-known songs, including the timeless classic ‘Over the Rainbow’, and celebrating the voice, the capacity for love and the sheer pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer”. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Executive Producer Fernando Meirelles (Academy Award-nominated director of "City of God") and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall - an ambitious vision to grow an 8000km ‘wall of trees’ stretching across the entire continent to fight back against desertification, climate change and migration. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - World premiere

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Billie Holiday one ofthe greatest voices of all time, a woman of breath-taking talent and globalpopularity, was throughout her short life a figure of controversy - a blackwoman in a white man’s world, a victim and a rebel whose performances and recordings of the protest song "Strange Fruit" earned her powerful enemies. She was also an enigma, her telling of her own life story a mix of half truths and free-form improvisations. In the late1960s journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biographyof Billie. Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer’s short, tumultuous life. Raw, emotional and brutally honest, these incredible testimonies ranged from musical greats like Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie to her cousin, schoolfriends, lovers, lawyers, pimps and even the FBI agents who arrested her. But Linda’s book was never finished and the tapes unplayed – until now. With unprecedented and exclusive access to Linda's astonishing 200 hours of never-before-heard interviews, BILLIE showcases an American legend, capturing her depths andcomplexity through the voices of those who knew her best. Painstakingly restored with footage and stills colourized by one of the leading colour artists, it is an arresting and powerful tale of one of the greatest singers who ever lived, and of Linda Lipnack Kuehl, the woman who would sacrifice her life intrying to tell it. Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2019 - World premiere

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The documentary follows choreographer and drag queen Jay Jackson/ Laganja Estranja ('RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 6) around London. Jay teaches a dance class and shares stories about his life. The film ends with a live performance at the West 5.

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1972, Blossom, Texas. After running away from home Simon decides to leave town, by chance he finds a way out and quickly goes to pick up his friends for the journey of a lifetime.

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Based on the memoir written in 2017 by Sid Luft, the third of Judy Garland's five husbands, about their years together, during which he was involved with her film A STAR IS BORN and her career as a concert performer. Official Selection Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2019 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Create Strand