Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Peppermint is a present day drama about Beth, a young teenager whose life is a difficult mix of emerging sexuality, turbulent relationships and personal insecurity. The story circles around Beth's attempt to validate herself in the eyes of her competitive mother Ann, resulting in a series of shocking revelations which unfold in the space of one difficult day.

Caught in the emotional crossfire are Mike and Nan, the people closest to the pair. Through their interactions emerges a past of parental neglect and irresponsible adulthood, which looks inevitably set to repeat itself.
 

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Set in 1973. single Dad, Jimmy focuses all his energies on the welfare of his eight-year-old daughter, Laura. When he sees her being bullied on the way to school he intervenes, but in doing so misses a court appearance. As Jimmy and Laura escape to the countryside they have no way of knowing how their perfect day will end.

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A surreal adventure into the minds of five phobiacs in a waiting room.

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Filters and lines, salty mouths, a family on the edge of the sea.

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A twisted adaptation of the original folk legends of Little Red Riding Hood, from before it was mutilated by the Brothers Grim.

Little Red meets the wolf. But he'll live to regret the encounter.

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A recently arrived American notices a woman living in a partially demolished house on a massive development site in Shanghai, a row of welcoming red lanterns strung proudly over her doorway. This film captures the final days of the Red Lantern House and the beginning of an unlikely friendship.

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River Crossing is based on true story. A childhood memory of two sisters on a family excursion.

Instructed by a dominant father to cross a dangerous river and return a stranger's belongings to the opposite bank, two young girls almost drown.

A girl's voice narrates the main event but at the start of the river crossing, it is replaced by a woman's voice. This memorable day becomes the turning point of the girl's life, with no possibility of return.
Running water, the wide river and the crossing serve as metaphors for her rites of passage to adulthood: the moment she grew years in a single day.

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Widower, Jack (Bob Hoskins) who finds love with his mysterious French neighbour (Josiane Balasko), is accused of being a paedophile when the locals begin unfounded gossip after an eight year old girl goes missing.
 

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Actor Gary gets his big break in a feature film but things just couldn't seem to get any worse. Gary is playing the part of Nathan, an gangster with a conscience determined to cut his ties with the underworld fraternity but he just can't seem to find the right emotion to nail the scene.

The director's method of working is too unconventional and the cold hearted crew are wilting rapidly as the takes roll on.

Will poor Gary finally hit his mark or will he slide into obscurity and remain in television for the remainder of his career?

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Flow 24-7 a fledging commercial radio station organises a blind date competition for a wedding to rescue crashing ratings. A cheque for a £100,000 awaits the daring couple who agree to court over the airwaves, get married blindfolded and agree to stay married once the blindfolds come off. The applications are flooding in but for all the wrong reasons.

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Every boy has a secret,
Every man has a dream,
Every nightmare has a meaning.

When Robert falls for Alice they are the perfect couple, for both of them this is a 'once in a lifetime' love. But when Alice falls pregnant, it triggers in Robert a horrific nightmare. Misunderstood by the people closest to him, a wall of silence grows around him and with the birth of his son he is catapulted into the abyss of losing everything he loves. Terrified by what is happening, Robert spirals downwards, where he discovers the truth about himself. This psychological drama encapsulates the intensity of films like Mystic River. A moving love story, that will resonate with anyone who has struggled with the difficult things they inherit from childhood.
 

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She Should Have Gone To The Moon tells the astonishing story of the pilot and pioneer, Jerri Truhill, who was trained in 1961, as part of NASA's top secret Mercury 13 programme, to become one of the First Lady Astronauts.

The documentary is about Jerri Truhill's ambition to conquer the unknown and the filmmaker's fascination with a woman who dared to break down all barriers in aviation. Set against a momentous era in American history, the film constructs both an intimate portrait of Truhill and explores a unique chapter in American culture and society.

In the film, the sharp-witted Jerri Truhill looks back on her compelling life via a phone call with the filmmaker. This conversation becomes the catalyst for the director's imagining of key events in Truhill's potent narrative and inspires a journey to meet the heroine in Texas.
Along the way, the filmmaker places herself in Truhill's story, first wandering across the surreal landscape of White Sands and then suspended in zero gravity inside a water tank.

Included are stylized and dreamlike scenes, which are counter pointed by shots from both Truhill's and NASA's film archive.

The various strands produce the film's heady timeline, as they circle through real and imagined spaces and merge into a bittersweet interview with Truhill at her home.