Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Diagrams of chemistry apparatus and educational film footage react and combine in this quirky interpretation of a poem by Nobel Laureate chemist Roald Hoffmann. The film is an experiment to illustrate how technology changes the way we represent the world with results that prove ironic and inconclusive.

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The Slits travelled and toured widely as a group. Accompanying them during 1980 and 1981, Christine Robertson filmed intermittently on Super-8, collected whilst managing The Slits. Typical Girls was completed after the group split up in 1982. Filmed on stage in Berlin and Italy and off stage in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, the film gives an experimental flavour of the unconventional lifestyle the group lived and the unique music that came out of it.

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Girl and mother remember father who has gone.
 
The girl invents a fantasy that against the odds he comes back to them.
 
So she sits and waits for him.
 

 

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Zoe, a single mum, is broke and her kids are hungry. She bumps into Dave, a bloke she used to fancy, who doesn't know she's a mum.
When he asks her out, she lies about having kids and leaves them outside the pub. Nearby, a bin attracts wasps looking for food.

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A dreamy young woman's attempts to instill life with symbolism and deeper meaning are rudely awakened by life's determination to reveal the bare facts.

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A guy walks into a bar and takes on a challenge to win a pot of money. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen properly to the rules of the challenge, with shocking results. The story is told in funky rap-style dialogue.

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Yes is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband and Shirley Henderson a philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of dirt and heartbreak the lovers leave behind them, as they embark on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana.
 

 

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After having an abortion against her boyfriend's wishes, Lucia is surprised to find a soul-mate in parent Jimmy.

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Sometimes you wake up with the wrong person. Black Coffee, a brilliantly improvised Scottish black comedy, deals with the hangover from the night before. John Dick wakes up, content with being unemployed. Lynn, an insecure rich bitch, finds herself falling in love with John, the 'journalist for the local paper'. Meanwhile, after years of marriage, Pat has had enough of Eve's too many late nights, leaving their teenage son, Ben, with the biggest hangover of all.

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One day top stylist Pim comes face to face with her past when Debbie walks into her salon and back into her memory. Pim's in turmoil as she remembers the summer day when they were ten and her then best friend rejected her. Pim's crime: her Asian hair was black, not blonde. Now Pim has Debbie's head in her hands. Pim has her chance for revenge.

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Liverpool, England. A Chinese Grocery. Three women sit making dumplings. Conversation turns to traditions, relationships and men and we discover that although distinctly Chinese, their subjects are universal concerns. A gentle informal picture of the women's everyday struggles framed by the distinctive Liverpool skyline and infused with a warm humour.

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This is a love story, not Helen and Joe, but the whole family. Helen (late 30s) is wife, mother and daughter and, on the morning we meet her, is killed in a road accident. But Helen doesn't know she is dead, and neither does her husband, Joe, who is a truck driver travelling home to London from war-torn Eastern Europe. The film charts the four-day odyssey of the family until Joe's return: the children and Grandpa at home struggling with what has happened, Joe over scary and unpredictable terrain and Helen through limbo to the moment when she and Joe finally reconcile their love and she is free to leave in peace. In the tragedy comes the seed of hope for the future.