Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Deep mystery still surrounds the apparent ritual suicide of a group of students at a London theology college six years ago. Today, five friends, scouting the ultimate party venue, break into an abandoned halls of residence to discover they are in the same place where the students took their lives. Each of the friends has heard conflicting accounts of what happened that fateful night, so they attempt to communicate with their souls to find out the truth. But the answer comes not from the ghosts, but from whatever it was that drove them to their deaths. And now it knows they're here, it's not going to let them leave.
 

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Destricted is the first compliation of its kind, a series of short films created by seven of the world's most provocative artists and filmmakers - Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Wood, Marina Abramovic, Marco Brambilla and Gaspar Noé.
 
Revealing the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves sexually, Destricted explores the intersection of art and pornography. By highlighting controversial issues about the representation of sexuality in art, the seven filmmakers question whether art can be disguised as pornography, and pornography as art or as something else altogether.
 
The result is a collection of explicit, stimulating, challenging, provocative, strange and sometimes humorous scenarios that leave it up to the viewer to decide. As compelling and contentious within the art world, as in the film industry, Destricted was among Artforum magazine's 'Best of 2005', an official selection for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and the 45th International Critics' Week at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.  Destricted's first public screening will be at Tate Modern, London in September 2006 to mark its release on DVD and digital platform viewing.

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Edie, an abused, off-centre transsexual, uses her video camera like a personal CCTV, recording the crimes and abuse perpetrated against her but it soon becomes a drug that only helps her avoid reality - so when someone tries to take it from her, there are tragic consequences. Can Edie ever stop pretending her life is all a movie?

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What happens when you use a cursed credit card? You buy, you die!
A teenage loser uses an unlimited credit card to gain popularity. But the card is cursed and the interest will have to be paid back, in blood!
 

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Stacey is a young mother trapped in a violent marriage who wants to see her daughter as Cinderella in the school play but must first escape the nightmare of her own Prince Charming.

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Based on an original story written by Alfred Hitchcock in 1919 and never brought to the screen before, Gas is the tale of the surreal anxieties and imagined horror of a woman's trip to.
 

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A surreal short film set in the ruins of London, driven by a contemporary music-hall libretto. The film contrasts the beautiful and grotesque in a narrative focusing on the universal question - are our lives driven by destiny or chance?

This powerful short narrative embodies key aspects of the classic Gothic tale, with echoes of Du Maurier's Trilby and Le Fanu's dark stories.
The mystery of the 'true' nightmare of the narrative is left to the viewer to decide.

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After unprecedented rainfall the desert of Death Valley burst into flower. Unseen in living memory, the flowers drew tourists from around the world.

Greetings from Death Valley tells three stories from this forgotten landscape. From the last two residents in a gold rush town. From a village at the edge of a lake dried up to feed water to the distant city of Los Angeles. From the proposed site of the dump for all of the USA's nuclear waste.

Told through the voices of residents living with the consequences of these events, the film is three postcards from places America would rather ignore.

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in 1905, Women in Queensland got the vote. Banned from male only pubs and bars, certain Women met in secret every full moon to talk politics and drink. One hundred years later, the civilised centenary of this infamous club takes place. However, events take a turn back to the old days, when a notorious guest finally arrives.

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The story of a young boy who is sent to Jersey to live with his grandparents after his mother had left him home alone. The film follows Jimmy's struggle to find love, happiness and security.

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London, 1944. The war hangs in the balance. Nazi spy Eva has an ingenious method of transmitting a crucial Morse code message to a waiting German U-Boat. What could possibly go wrong?

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Three women: Ona, a pop star, Jude, a celebrated stripper and Hon, a judo player pursue, to the exclusion of everything else, their respective goals and ambitions.

Ona starts judo training as a new fad in order to maintain the interest of her fans in her. Hon in addition to her obsessive judo training, also works as a bouncer in the lap dance club where Jude appears. Jude lands an offer she cannot refuse.

A company producing the most expensive diamonds in the world is experiencing a decline in sales and is looking for a strategy to turn it around. It has hired one of the most experienced PR experts in the field.
Suddenly opportunities present themselves, which could change the lives of the three women beyond all recognition putting their true motivations and passions to the test.

A thought provoking film that challenges everybody’s perception of success.