Projects in genres: Woman Director

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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.

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Jim is a witty writer and brilliant comic book artist. He is the creator of Captain Penumbra, the superhero from the lunar realm where light and darkness merge. After a thousand letters Gwynne is finally going to meet him in person. But leaving her home in Ireland Gwynne approaches Jim slowly, visually savouring the America that he has written about and asking complete strangers what image of Jim they form by reading the letters he has sent her. Gradually she circles closer to Jim's personal realm, meeting his family and visiting his childhood haunts. When Gwynne reaches Arizona Jim's current whereabouts are finally revealed. Passing the gates of the State Penitentiary she is about to witness the disturbing reality of Jim's present existence. She finally encounters the convicted killer she has befriended awaiting his fate on Death Row, in the half light between life and death.

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Three years ago Peter found a new born lamb abandoned in a ditch. 'Ben' is now a full-grown sheep with ambitions to move into Peter’s house with him. Peter however has other ideas. 'Peter and Ben' tells the touching and quirky story of how two - drop outs find friendship in a hostile world.

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A visual portrait of the disabled avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, as represented by his environment. The film is a very personal movement through Steve's past and present, as seen through the house he has lived in for the last 30 years and the objects within it that both surround and represent him - as an individual living with a disability, and as an artist-filmmaker who has enjoyed a long and successful career.

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Yorkshire, England 1952. Ruth Ackroyd, leaves the monotony of her work in her father's textile mill on a Friday afternoon, and secretly takes the train to Manchester. There she meets a man on the platform, but all is not what it seems.

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Chupoo, who lives in a tree on a lonely floating elephant, is habitually woken each morning by a cheeky sausage. After this startling start to the day Chupoo spends the rest of it causing havoc and destruction wherever he goes. Through the chaos the resident creatures pull together using a specially designed mechanism to bring Chupoo his morning shower. As soon as his shower is over trained bats fly the sleeping Chupoo back up his tree to bed, only to see the rigmarole start all over again the very next morning.