Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Gypo, the first British Dogme95-certified feature film, reveals how suburban fears and tabloid sensationalism have come to perpetuate the myths surrounding refugees. 

Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. She lives a monotonous and frozen existence and is desperate, damaged and looking for change. Paul is on the brink of a breakdown, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap. Bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, his biggest fear is change. Into their lives comes Tasha, a Romany Czech refugee awaiting her British passport and her chance for freedom - a concept taken for granted by all those around her. 

The story is told in three revelatory narratives, each from a particular character's point of view, and reveals how the disintegration of an ordinary working-class family finally comes to a head when unexpected emotions are unleashed.

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Ten minutes of intimate moments with the man behind the milk carton. Hans Rausing, the former chairman of Tetrapak bought the invention of the milk carton and is among the richest men in the world. Unusual access was given to the director, Yael Luttwak, to spend time and film Hans Rausing. This film uncovers a man who looks, thinks, behaves, and lives unlike most people on earth.

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Heavy Pockets is a six-minute animated film about a girl who loses her gravity. Initially embarrassed by this amazing gift, Awel Jones becomes isolated from the other kids at school and only her sister is aware of her hidden talent. However, after being forced to confront the school bullies her secret is revealed and her classmates must marvel at her incredible floating skills.

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Iris (Shirley Anne Field), a frail woman in her eighties, falls in love with Percy (Kenny Lynch) in their old people's home. Wishing she could have spent her life with him, she builds a time machine from an old wheelchair. Heyday is a touching modern fairytale about treasuring every moment and valuing the person that you love.

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'It's either up and down or a bit of along, but it's usually up or down.'

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The greatest love story of the millennium  ever told - ever.

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Looking at once for escape and definition in his life, a teenage boy drifts through a summer's day, aimlessly riding a stolen car with his friend.

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A stranger-than-fiction horror story, based on true events that shocked America in 1970.

Announced on the main evening news: a 13-year-old girl is discovered in an LA suburb after being held prisoner in a room, harnessed to a potty chair for 12 years.

Genie, as scientists later named her, was the perfectly hidden horror in the outwardly uneventful suburbia.

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A visual documentation of emigration, love, strength, creativity and old age. Annette Eick is philosophical about her migration from Nazi Berlin, via Hampstead to Devon. At 95 years of age she is not concerned about fitting in. After the death of a partner, she lives alone. She has written a daily journal and poetry for decades. She is sustained by her muse.

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In the Park is a punchy, painfully evocative tale of three young teenage girls who have got themselves into more trouble than they bargained for.
Julie, Amira and Lindsey cross the gulf between childhood and adulthood in one afternoon.

Set in one of the capital's parks on a hot summer day when the asphalt is melting and there is madness in the baking concrete, Lindsey, Julie and Amira are bunking off school. A trio looking for trouble. Their delight in themselves is infectious. Their 'badness' shockingly innocent. Then Lindsey's cramps become suddenly crippling, and hiding in the bushes behind the playground they realise that she is having a baby.

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Sam, a radio DJ in 2020 New York City, recieves a mysterious call during her late-night talk show from someone, or something, claiming to be the artificial intelligence inside a nuclear bomb.

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Isau Rafemoyo is a 21 year old man from Zimbabwe. He works in a Bar-Restaurant in Ware, Hertfordshire, England doing various cleaning duties.
 
This 8 minute documentary shows one of his Friday and Saturday 5 hour eveneing shifts washing and polishing glasses behind the bar.