Sparks fly as the worlds of street-dance and ballet collide in Streetdance - the vibrant, uplifting and ground-breaking 3D feature film from award-winning music video directors Max and Dania, Vertigo Films and BBC Films.
While training for the UK Streetdance Championships, a streetdance crew are forced to work with Royal ballet dancers in return for rehearsal space. With no common ground and with passions riding high, they realise they need to find a way to join forces to win.
The Beginning of Light is a mute choreographed film, using 2 poems. The first tells of a young woman, who, devastated by the death of her lover, finally lets him go. In the second Poem, her moods lightens, but a Young Man watches her unseen.
Kate was a dancer, a good one. The future was hers, the excitement, the competitions, the awards. At just 16 she had it all. But then the accident happened.
Not only was she scarred for life, but her injuries took away her voice. Now a reclusive mute, she lives a secluded life, hidden from the world.
But when she meets Danny in an Internet chat room he is determined to break her out of her shell. Smooth talking and not afraid to bend a few rules, Danny makes it his personal mission to get Kate back on the stage. However as their friendship grows, Kate begins to suspect that Danny is not everything he claims to be.
Short experimental video, featuring three sculptures by David Salkeld Shot at the North shields triangle, a regenerated residential triangle of old ship yard housing at Newcastle upon Tyne, intermixed with shots of the surrounding Tyne mouth area. To a sound track by the director Michael Salkeld to create an audio visual poem.
In September 2007, 16 of the world's best b-boys battle one on one in a disused power station in the heart of Soweto, South Africa, to determine who will be the next world champion. Turn it Loose is a film about this competition.
Through the eyes of six competitors we leave behind any preconceived notions of what breakdance used to represent, and as the film digs deeper into their lives, we discover an extraordinary form of non-contact combat that has evolved over 30 years to become a truly 21st century global phenomenon, stretching the limits of physical capability and pushing dance itself to astonishing new heights.
In South East London four young women reflect upon the reasons they love jazz. Their musings give insight into a life of jazz inspired journeys. The short paints an intimate portrait of the young women. Ty the music producer said the girls inspired him about music.
Oil City Confidential is a film noir feature length documentary and about Dr Feelgood; it's the story of four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early '70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll and left all that came before a burnt-out ruin, four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten's anti-Christ.
Animated music video to "Stay In My Memory" by Bim (www.bimmusic.com). A magical story where a girl ventures through a pop up book in search of her lost love/memories of her lost love.
Don Letts is an unsung hero of British music. Told in Letts' unique voice, Superstonic Sound is a documentary about his family legacy that mirrors the history of Bass in the UK and his fighting for identity being the first generation of British born Black. A journey from Dub and Reggae to the legendary very first Punk club 'The Roxy' in the mid-seventies, crossing Hip Hop towards Dubstep; a musical, cultural and personal travel between past and present.
This five piece glam-rock band go on a UK tour for one week gigging every night until they give up and cancel half way through. This is a comical 'behind the scenes' look at a journey of hopes and dreams smashed by reality. Musicians bonding and ultimately falling out all in one week of rock n roll.
1989 in the UK saw the birth of a new youth culture. Driven by a media hate campaign, the British Government acted against it by funding a special Police Unit, whose sole purpose was to crush it. They Call it Acid is the definitive document of the Acid House era.
