Projects in genres: Woman Director

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'For the forty children who call it home, Mulberry Bush is their last chance. Excluded from school for extreme behaviour, and often having suffered severe emotional trauma, they are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to try to turn their lives around. Acclaimed documentary maker Kim Longinotto has once again turned her compassionate lens on to people living in extraordinary circumstances. The fragile young boys at the heart of her film lash out in shockingly extreme ways - hitting, swearing and spitting their way through the misery of their blighted childhoods. Endlessly patient and determined staff members verbally reason with the boys, whilst often having to restrain them physically. Hold Me Tight is ultimately a heartbreaking, engrossing study of dysfunction - of what happens when families break down. It also pays witness to the tremendous influence that adults hold - for bad and for good - upon growing children,' (Carol Nahra).

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A newly wed couple arrive at a service station in the middle of the night. Zoran disappears to make a phone call but when he fails to return Dawn begins to wonder just how well she knows her new husband.

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Matt can’t escape the internal torment of his mental illness and Cathryn feels guilty after giving permission to section him, now he'’s missing.
At her wits end Cathryn starts searching for her son.

As her guilt deepens Cathryn experience’s sightings of Matt, is her mind playing tricks or is she being guided by Matt?

Cathryn’s emotional journey ends as she reaches an empty bridge which stops her in her tracks.

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Like young lovers, a couple dance in the snow. When death strikes, Madeleine freezes over. Eventually her heart melts; at Bernard’s side she says goodbye.

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Lands End tells the story of Clare, a new mother with post-natal depression who spends much of her time sobbing under the kitchen table. On Christmas Eve in a desperate bid to escape her cheating husband Sebastian and get to the safety of her wealthy father’s house for Christmas, she enlists the help of two homeless men, Reza and Rory, to drive her from London to Lands End in Cornwall.

Despite Reza’s lack of recent driving experience and Rory’s constant thirst for alcohol the two men eventually prove worthy escorts. The adventures on the journey including the pitstop at Clare’s Granny's house where Granny comforts Clare and treats the men as heroes, all contribute to her increasing recovery and the precious bond with her baby is formed. But when the journey is almost over a chance meeting with her scheming husband and his lover who steal the baby away, means Clare has to look to her own resources to rescue the baby and escape Sebastian forever.

Christmas Day sees her well and happy and dancing on top of the table.

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This short film is a profile of four ancient London markets threatened with redevelopment: Spitalfield; Smithfield; Borough; Covent Garden.

Two have already suffered the fallout of redevelopment; the other two await their fate and the outcome of planning applications for redevelopment.

The film compares and contrasts and analyzes to what extent the marriage of market forces and local neighbourhood history has given us what we consider to be the 'bone marrow' of London life.

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Reggie lives in the near future, where modern medicine has evolved to prolong life indefinitely, courtesy of the Immortality (IMMO) Corporation. He is now a very old man, and has lost the memory of his past completely. When one day a shoe falls down from the shoeboxes stored high above him, he is given the chance to take back his most precious memory, a moment that he’d previously lost forever.

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Mustard is the story of a woman who can't change.

Joan ritualistically deposits her idiosyncratic childish objects around the city as if laying them to rest, in an attempt to change her life and grow up.

But the objects all return to her in another shape or form.

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A daughter struggles with her conscience between moral obligations verses duty when she has to deliver her elderly senile mother to an old age home.

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New Love is a story set in the future. In a brave new world built on rationality, it plunges us into the irrational logics of love and desire.

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With a spirit full of music and heart aching to love, a young woman finds enchantment amongst the tarnished glitter of a seaside town. Charlie can't help dreaming. In her head, she has a life filled with sunshine and song. The truth - a seaside summer job at a crazy golf course - is dreary and grey in comparison.

Then there's a boy, Jake, a sculptor, crafting Charlie's castles in the air from the sand on the beach.

But will she take a chance, take one little step, and open herself up to love?

Filmed in Great Yarmouth, home of sun, sea and sand sculpting, One Little Step is a magical musical to melt your heart.

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Two wigs, a pair of rollerskates, a TV repairman and a fridge full of milk. How do you remember the summer when you were eight? A touching and funny interpretation of the adult world through the eyes of a child.