Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A grandmother and child go for a walk in the woods with a bag full of kittens.

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1942. The world is at war.

Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, is parachuted behind enemy lines into Southern France. Only she knows she has a dual mission. Officially, she has been recruited by the British Government on a special operation to liaise with the local resistance group, who are using guerrilla tactics against the occupying German Army. Unofficially, she is searching for her lover, Peter, an English airman missing in action after his plane is shot down.

As Charlotte becomes more deeply involved with the resistance fighters, led by Julien Levade, she realises that her love of France and its people will change her life forever.

Charlotte Gray is a thrilling romance set against the harrowing events of the dark years of the War in France.

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During the peacefulness and sunshine at the start of the pandemic in the UK, a young girl hears creatures talking in the countryside near her home. She uses this discovery to entice her older sister out of a depression. The film uniquely integrates audio description into the main soundtrack.
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Cherish, an adolescent on the brink of adulthood is still full of dreams and inhibitions. She meets her father for the first time. Reluctant to accept him and after a cold start, a genuine affection builds up. Then she finds her father has remade his life with another woman.

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Lorna lives with her depressed mother, whom she looks after. She has buried her emotions and is only helped out of her isolated world when Earl, a builder, comes to fix a wall.

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The story of a woman's fight to retain her dignity. When she's tried all she can by gentle means, and things are only getting worse, she starts to fight back with a vengeance.

A macabre story of a victimised woman who kills the men that torment her and buries them one by one, on top of each other, in a shallow grave.

To her surprise however, the dead do not rest easy. The abusive husband she kills returns to torment her as a very real ghost. At the same time, she is being investigated for another murder by a sadistic detective, who is not what he appears to be.

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Dead Drunk is an educational short drama that looks at the culture of drinking from the perspective of a group of teenagers on the cusp of adulthood.

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Dog takes place on what starts out as an ordinary day for 15-year-old Leah from Thamesmead but turns out to have a shocking and violent conclusion when her boyfriend John is pushed over the edge by an innocuous incident.

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Based on the filmmaker's collection of British newspaper cuttings, Everyday Something features interlocking private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life. The characters demonstrate their longings as we witness their thwarted lives and strategies for survival eg a woman who can't stop jogging, a man obsessed with Claudia Schiffer.

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A sleepy seaside town, Rachel and Mike are camping on the outskirts of town. Nearby in her campervan is young Israeli Maya and her sister Dannie. As Rachel pursues the sixteen year old son she abandoned years ago, Mike pursues Dannie. Relationships are tested to breaking point.

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A romantic essay on a modern Icarus and his metal flying angel. Some call it freedom, some call it flying saucers, some call it insane, some call it living, some are seen dying, some call it flying, some call it heaven, some call it hell.

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A short film exploring the subtle battle fought by a shy fourteen year old trying to escape the control of her flamboyant mother, when she gets her first boyfriend.