Projects in genres: Woman Director

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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.

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A sequential collage of bizarre and revealing images found by putting the term Human into an internet search engine is combined with the quirky, fantastical and often hilarious desriptions of the human race by children, to give the audience a disconcerting sense of alienation from their own species.

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That was the year we were going to the seaside for our summer holiday. But something always happened whenever we tried to do anything together.

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On a transatlantic quest to discover the identity of The Muse, filmmaker and artist Kathy Hill asks other creatives "What Inspires You? Is It Divine?" Features interviws with movie star Rutger Hauer, Oxford Classic don Jasper Griffin, Hollywood Script Consultant Linda Seger and Bafta Award winning film director Ben Hopkins.

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Audrey is troubled. Everything should be great - she and Henry love each other, they live in a nice flat, they're a happy young couple - except now she can hardly stand the sight of him let alone allow him to touch her. What went wrong? It wasn't meant to be like this.   Audrey knows she's changed. Deep inside she knows she should make a clean break but that would mean turning her life upside down - being alone. So she carries on as ever hoping her feelings will change. Her mind is plagued by dark dreams - weird sex with her best friend's new boyfriend, taunted by a lunatic farmhand called Crevice. As Audrey struggles to keep her nighttime horrors at bay they start to creep into her reality and invade her waking hours. A small, orange, plastic ring grows at her navel, attached to a piece of string which disappears into her stomach.  What involuntary words will she utter when the cord is pulled? Will her own body betray her?  Audrey must take control of her life before she is consumed by the nightmarish world that runs parallel to her reality and she is forced to do something unspeakable.   Or maybe she's just having a breakdown.   It's a story for anyone who has ever ended a relationship or gone a little crazy.

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Wire mesh, fibrefill, salt and paper, steel wool, cherry blossoms, grease and spit, bubble wrap, tea leaves, washer rings, and a drain stopper chain. An exaltation of the everyday set to music by Martin Tétreault and Otomo Yoshihide. Jetsam employs an early photographic technique directly exposing objects onto film.

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Set in a public swimming pool, this comical animated film features a timid young woman and her struggle to swim just - one - length.

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Imagine what it must feel like to be forced to leave everything you know and love in order to stay alive. This was the situation for Jean Baptiste, a journalist in Rwanda. Letters Home is a poignant and very personal portrayal of his experiences since arriving in England as a refugee, through his letters home to his family.

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Hull 1955; Philip Larkin arrives at Hull University to take up the post of Head Librarian. His love affair with Monica Jones is already five years old and, with the publication of The Less Deceived, he is about to be catapulted into the public eye. But while Monica enjoys the reflected glory of their relationship, Larkin is terrified of the extra commitment she wants. In response, he begins a secret affair with one of his library staff, Maeve Brennan. While this relationship draws form Larkin some of his most romantic insights, it flounders on Maeve's Catholic faith; she doesn't believe in sex before marriage. And marriage is something Larkin cannot face.   Over the next fifteen years Larkin juggles Maeve and Monica, all the time playing faithful son to his mother Eva, while writing some of his greatest poems. But with Eva's death and the ending of his relationship with Maeve, the poems dry up. Not even a brief affair with his loyal secretary Betty provides any inspiration. Having sacrificed his life for his writing, Larkin is left with nothing. Until, haunted by impending death and his failed talent, Larkin in old age returns to his soul mate Monica.