Projects in genres: Climate / Environment

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A feature film portrait of two powerful figures: Lord Stevenson and Professor Malcolm Carruthers. Powerful for what they represent and their life story and powerful for some of the most controversial and contemporary issues: mental health, cosmetic surgery and the use of testosterone.

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A VR animated adventure with a dark heart. Be transported to Hawaii in 1984 and into a hand-painted enchanting rainforest, in search of the last õ'õ songbird. A fabled black bird with yellow legs and a unique voice, whose last living specimen disappeared from the island 30 years ago.

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Dr Lynda Boothroyd of the University of Durham is asked to take a deeper look at the cultural and scientific reason for growing a beard. Her interview is accompanied by a series of intimate portraits of those with beards and their stories.

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It is 1830 and the scientific world is closed to women. Mary, a prolific but destitute fossil hunter has recently made another big discovery. But she hasn’t been credited, again.
Based on true events, the story of one woman’s quest to make groundbreaking discoveries against all odds.

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A short film about an eighty-year-old tidal pool in Margate, and the swimmers who find solace and community in her waters during these turbulent times. Filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson and writer Anna Hart explore the magical healing nature of the sea, and the value of a true community pool.
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 - World premiere
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - International Competition

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Confronted with the alarming possibility of his niece’s rebellion, a fanatical believer sets into motion a chain of dark events that he believes will spare her from the impending apocalyptic doom.

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Three intertwining stories explore the effects of mnemophrenia, a new condition arising from the use of advanced Virtual Reality (VR) films, causing the involuntary blending of real and artificial memories, creating an identity crisis.
The three main characters, Jeanette, Nicholas and Robyin live in different time periods, all set in the future. They are connected in three ways: by blood; by the condition itself, since they are all mnemophrenics; and by their shared interest in ways that technology affects the human condition.

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An alternative reality scenario where a group of animals has become organised and are committed to make themselves heard by humans, guerrilla style. The film is a surrealist take on human responsibility over climate change and on our inescapable connection with nature.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition

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A short animated documentary about what it means to be conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially intelligent; using hand drawn techniques to explore the human tendency to anthropomorphise simple drawings, and how we might do the same to machines.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition

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Inspired by solar science and spectacular images of the Sun, 'Celestial Motion' explores humans’ relationship to the universe through a cosmic meld of contemporary dance and motion-capture technology.
Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere

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Beginning in the 1960s, a small band of young scientists headed out into the wilderness, driven by an insatiable curiosity about how nature works. Immersed in some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth—from the majestic Serengeti to the Amazon jungle; from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools - they discovered a single set of rules that govern all life.
Now in the twilight of their eminent careers, these five unsung heroes of modern ecology share the stories of their adventures, reveal how their pioneering work flipped our view of nature on its head, and give us a chance to reimagine the world as it could and should be.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Spotlight Documentary - World premiere

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The pioneers enrolled in NASA's first female astronaut training program finally open up about their top-secret testing, which pitted them against the established boys' club of American astronauts of the 1950s.
Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - International premeire