Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A tale of a girl who accidentally swallows a hypercube and starts to experience a series of unusual events which make her begin to struggle between sense common to everybody and sense in common things.

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An old man is torn between the memory of his wife, a fish in a jar, and the reality of his lonely existence.

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A documentary on a multi-national collection of young offenders in Malta Prison, putting on a Shakespeare inspired production. The film follows the inmates on their emotional journey as they discover hidden talents, connect with each other and find new meaning in their lives.

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Concerning the concept of skin and race, and what they imply; the ideas and theories sown into our flesh that change with the arc of time. The film focuses on African women’s self-image, through memories and interviews; using mixed media to describe our almost schizophrenic pursuit of globalised beauty.

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Once upon a time in a strange fairytale world there lived a strange girl called Annabelle. One day Annabelle decides to throw a tea party and invites over her best friends Olivia, the Colonel, Dr Hotspoth and the mysterious Mr Magizmo. In her little house they drink tea, eat cakes, and play party games. However all is not as it seems. As Annabelle's sugar coated world grows darker, the games they play turn nasty. Her guests soon realise they are going to have to make a run for it, because tea and cake are not the only thing on the menu.

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A short film that explores the characters at a under used Household Waste and Recycling facility in Cardiff. Bessemer Boys gives us an insight into of the type of people it takes to run the facilty on a daily basis.

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Tia answers two online classifieds, one for a date, the other for a job; but in her London film and music scene, the line between work and play can become blurred. A story about the lives and loves of two sisters.

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For George is a poignant, funny look at three generations of a family as they come together for a funeral. As grief and betrayal threaten to dissolve the glue that holds them together, Bobbie and the older generation set about doing exactly what George would have wanted - dancing.

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In Search of Silent Landscapes follows Britain’s top female ultra-distance runner, Sharon Gayter. We learn of her troubled childhood, desire for escape and the hours of pain and solitude that redeemed her. The film is a portrait of a complex and remarkable woman and a meditation on time, devotion and silence.

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One Mile Away tells the human side of gang violence and knife crime, of people who are both perpetrators and victims. These are issues that are hard to understand and seem impossible to resolve. This film is a rare opportunity to do both.

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Water, sunlight, breathing and skin – this is a submersion into the joy of sea swimming by night and by day. A series of moving portraits and interviews held exclusively in the sea off the coast of Hastings in the South East.

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Schiller said there is a watcher at the gate of the mind, and it is the watcher that prevents creativity, because creativity and insanity are almost the same thing. The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of the mind allowing access to spontaneity and imagination. Acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven', the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her traveling partners along the way, and through them deconstructs both herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem.