Projects in genres: Music

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WELCOME TO THE WORLDS is the remarkable story of the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships, held in March 2010 in Glasgow. Three thousand dancers, their families and teachers from around the globe descend upon Glasgow for one drama filled week. Clad in wigs, make up, fake tan, diamantes and dresses costing thousands of pounds to compete for the coveted world titles.

A year of incredibly hard work for just a few tense minutes on stage. This feature length documentary was given access for the very first time to the little known world of competitive Irish Dancing.

With financial backing from BBC Scotland, BBC and Scottish Screen award-winning filmmaker Sue Bourne went behind the normally closed doors of Irish Dancing and found a remarkable world. Wonderful characters of all ages from Ireland, Holland, Britain, America and Russia. Discover a world of dedication, hard work, obsession, passion. Success and failure. And astonishing talents pushed to their limits in the quest for perfection.

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The film follows an extraordinary group of young and inspiring musicians, AnDa Union, on a journey through the distant Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. In the vibrant capital of Hohhot the group have made a life around performing and creating traditional music for a contemporary audience. The rituals of their daily lives have adapted to the modern city and indeed modern living has shaped their music in new and exciting ways. From the city, AnDa Union embark on an adventure to the wild and varied landscapes of the Inner Mongolian grasslands and mountains, where we discover the secrets of their haunting and beautiful music, and a rapidly changing environment.

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Black Swan Story follows Joel Pott, singer with Athlete, retracing his grandfathers footsteps in Arnhem. Joel’s Grandfather, Major John Pott was a British Paratrooper who fought in the Battle Of Arnhem in 1944.

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A story of heartbreak, denial and a life changing phone call.

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The Surgery Productions bring you the world's first 'Dubumentary' film. A feature length music documentary following UK band Subsource. Their music styles encapsulate dance, rock, breakbeat, and drum & bass.

In April 2010 they released their highly anticipated first album Tales from the Doombox. The documentary follows the band on tour around the UK & Europe sharing their experiences and capturing their unique stage presence.

The film can be watched and enjoyed by anyone who appreciates live music and has respect for a group of musicians attempting to follow their dreams.

Subsource have played shows across the UK, Berlin, Paris and legendary festivals such as V Festival, The Isle of Wight and Glastonbury.

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Existing within the possibilities of the theatrical and cinematic frame, a figure enters the spotlight feet first - a 'starlet' born by breech. She moves as a figure in flux of femme fatale and demoiselle, meshing the physical architecture of cinematic suggestions of these two archetypes.

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The mysterious love poem by Wilhelm Müller from Schubert's 'Winterreise' provides the audio amplitude samples used to draw the waveform.

Awarded Best Experimental Film Prize at 2010 Ismailia International Documentary & Short Film Festival in Egypt.

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'Hey! Come on Out!' is one of 4 critically acclaimed short films collectively known as, 'Fables - A Film Opera'. Produced by Streetwise Opera, this production includes over 150 performers, all of whom have experienced homelessness. (Original fable by Shinichi Hoshi, music by Orlando Gough).

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The simple movements of everyday reality on the New York subway are transformed into a choreography of fractured and fleeting impressions.

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Originally conceived as a short film with a simple premise:
“What happens to all the old vinyl people used to play? Out of attics, rubbish bins & forgotten shelving, the records are summoned to an old warehouse by a mysterious ‘collector’.”

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A warm-hearted documentary about how Britian caught the flamenco bug. Elders of the British flamenco scene recount how they fell into the world of Spanish dancing which shaped their lives and influenced future generations. Personal stories are told against a vivid background of archive footage and photos.

For this documentary, Spanish Steps Film organised a flamenco reunion party in a Soho restaurant, where the flamenco culture had been incubated in post-war Britain. Here flamencos gathered to play, dance, sing and remember the old days.

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Millions of sales on both sides of the Atlantic, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills, spats, prats, success, excess, pick-me-ups, breakdowns and of course some of THE dening music of the late twentieth century.

This is the definitive and fully authorised story of the UK's most inspired and dissolute label. Twenty-five years after its first proper release and ten years after it closed its doors we tell the Creation Records story, from the Jesus and Mary Chain at the Living Room to Oasis at Knebworth.