Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Filler brings together children's fairy tales, TV, soap dramas and news reports to tell the story of a missing child. The video explores the cultural shifts that occur from the way these stories are reported - how notions of celebrity, voyeurism and reality are blurring private emotion with public spectacle.

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Glenda, an unemployed misfit, falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish. As her search for work flounders, her love for Freddie deepens and she feels her place is at his side.
 

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Floating Over Kolkata is a docu-fiction on the street kids of Kolkata, India. It is a journey into the mind of a girl as she becomes one of the street kids. Performances by real street children and an unusual peek into their world on the streets of the city.
 

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Polly is a teenager, discovering and experimenting with sex. Her father is becoming increasingly withdrawn and Polly mourns the intimacy that existed between them. They are both haunted by the absence of Polly's mother who is revealed to have abandoned the family. Polly deliberately creates a confrontation by dressing up in her mother's clothes.

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Short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets because of impairment. The film draws on Kahlo's own words and bold painting style. It refutes the picture of Kahlo's life as one of tragedy and suffering.

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It’s two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick’s older sister Annie. But Kath (Shirley Henderson) remains haunted by the need to know what happened.

When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day.

Visiting the spot where she was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a gateway to another reality in which Annie is still alive. Those close to Kath are sceptical. They question her sanity, beg her to stop searching.

Has Kath really found a way to access the afterlife? Or is she losing her grip on reality?

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A British student in Japan, Kate struggles to make new friends. Determined to fit in, she programmes her English robot to play Japanese music but the robot has other ideas.

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Banglabandu Primary School brought in the filmmaker Joanna Woodward to make a film on the subject of the legend of George and the Dragon with seven and eight year old children. The combination of the naivety in the children's art and Joanna's skills at telling a tale, has produced a very original film that will make even the most sceptical of viewers aware of the miraculous powers of characterisation that children possess.

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It's the mid 1980's and Rosa is having a bad summer. She's 12, her feminist mum is picketing a local sex shop and the girls at school are making her life hell and - she doesn't know what 'coming' means.
 
'What's 'coming' mum?' Sex education in the 1980's is a nightmare for 12 year old Rosa.

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Dave is a hapless electrician who stumbles into Aisha, a seemingly suicidal deaf woman whilst on a routine call out. Filled with pity he decides that he must save her. Is she the damsel in distress that he believes her to be or is he the one in need of tender loving care?

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This is the story of a remarkable 93 year old man. Leon Greenman survived five Nazi concentration camps, was the subject of Nazi medical experiments, endured a death march, a gruelling five day journey in open carts upon Germany's retreat and lost his wife and baby in Auschwitz. Where others choose to try and leave this horrific era in history behind, Leon has dedicated his life to educating against extremism. He has talked to over a milion youths since 1946 and for his effort was awarded with an OBE by the Queen.

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The portrait of a woman, Ellie, a dreamy fragile character - balancing on the portrait of reality and fantasy,  trying to answer questions concerning love, commitment, marriage and family.