Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Edinburgh 1926, the great Harry Houdini arrives for the grand finale of his international tour. There, he offers a prize to anyone who can contact the dead and reveal the last words uttered by his dying mother. Mary, a struggling Scottish psychic, and her nine year-old daughter Benji hear of the offer and decide to out-con Houdini. Instantly bewitched, Houdini is convinced that Mary is who he's looking for. Mary soon finds herself seduced by Houdini's charms and drawn into his world of illusion and dark secrets. As the stakes increase, it soon becomes a question of who is out-conning who?

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A Small Dinosaur chews grass when a rumble heralds the arrival of a fierce Gigantasaurus. When the Gigantasaurus roars it becomes apparent that the dinosaurs are not what they at first appear!

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A journey around the block of an animated landscape.
A composition made of audiovisual life extracts and mixed realities that will walk your imagination all the way. Diverse as daily life, this short explores several animation and editing techniques, bringing together experiences from all visual arts.
Seat and enjoy the view.

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Ecology is a feature film in three parts, three characters and three stories to be screened in any order: the stories of a mother, a daughter and a son, on holiday in Majorca. This is not the Majorca of package holidays but a writer's retreat, in a location solar powered and environmentally responsible. Delivered as three internal monologues narrated as voice-over, we are caught in the rhythms of an urgent repetition of events past and scraps of imagined dialogue directed at but never spoken to an other. Appearing to reference a debate on the ethics of the environment, Ecology innovatively turns the idea towards the ethics of psychic recycling, the debris passed on and re-circulated among people.

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Ellie (Sasha Jackson) struggles to become a dancer, despite the misgivings of her mother (Sally Reeve). She fantasises about Dance God (Brendan Cole) before meeting the down to earth Mark (Travis Oliver). With success as a belly dancer in her grasp, she must choose between her dreams and the people she loves.

A truly beautiful movie for dancers and dreamers alike.

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Exodus re-imagines the second book of the Old Testament set in the near future.

Shot in the English seaside town of Margate, Exodus involved the participation of local people in key roles both on and off screen and as the many hundreds of extras. The film tells a compelling story of identity and migration and great movements of peoples in search of a Promised Land.

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A tea break-sized glimpse into the many and varied ways that Britain’s favourite brew is enjoyed today– and it’s not always a simple case of tea bag and milk.

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Foreigners is an animated documentary about foreigners who live in London. The film, which is based on interviews with ten young people from all over the world who live in the city, pieces together vignettes from multiple points of view that reveal London as an international metropolis which is both exciting and alienating. The interviews suggest a fresh look on contemporary English culture, and raise more fundamental questions about cultural differences and human nature.

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An elderly woman recalls bygone memories. As a child she had three imaginary pets that she held with strings. She carried them with her all day and night, until one day she lost them. She looked for them everywhere to then find them unexpectedly.

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Humi is seven, and things in her house have changed. Her grandmother, a force of nature, has died, leaving the once spirited house in mourning. Humi watches with curiousity as mourners, dressed in white, gather in their house to observe the forty day period of mourning. Meanwhile, her mother, Nazia, devastated by the loss, starts to fall apart. As Nazia turns her back on the world and Humi, she stands to lose all that she has left. And it's up to Humi to bring her mother back from the brink.

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Serial girlfriend-dumper Ben gets more than he bargains for when he tries to wave goodbye to Girl 23.

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Stacey doesn't fit in at school and gets bullied about her clothes. She meets Carlie, a traveller girl who introduces her to magic and self-belief. Set on the Somerset levels with the lead roles played by local, non-professional actors.