Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Explorings how we present ourselves as women through societies feminine ideals and analyses the consumption of beauty in the digital age. ‘Ambie Drew’ exists to achieve perfection in a synthetic reality, manipulating herself through the use of beauty tools to play on an amplified, kitsch femininity.

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One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

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Amma spends the day getting braids in her local Afro-Caribbean hair salon. It's full of fun, sheen spray, gossip and laughter - but how will she deal with the casual homophobia?

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Set in 1830, Mary Anning tells the story of one of the UK’s first fossil hunters and her quest to make ground breaking scientific discoveries against all odds.

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Bambi drives her very pregnant best-friend Al to hospital to have her baby. They've decided that she's not going to keep it. Al's mood darkens as the inevitable and irreversible reality sinks in.

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Three intertwining stories explore the effects of mnemophrenia, a new condition arising from the use of advanced Virtual Reality (VR) films, causing the involuntary blending of real and artificial memories, creating an identity crisis. The three main characters, Jeanette, Nicholas and Robyin live in different time periods, all set in the future. They are connected in three ways: by blood; by the condition itself, since they are all mnemophrenics; and by their shared interest in ways that technology affects the human condition.

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Following a pivotal week for long-time best friends Lilah and Coby (whose friendship is morphing into something far more venomous and toxic), a flower that once delicately bloomed proves to just as easily draw blood with its thorns… Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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An alternative reality scenario where a group of animals has become organised and are committed to make themselves heard by humans, guerrilla style. The film is a surrealist take on human responsibility over climate change and on our inescapable connection with nature. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition

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A surrealist re-imagining of THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES in the north of England. Filmmaker Francesca Levi combines archival and found footage to create a speculative vision of the seaside town of Blackpool, one which is both unsettling and curiously nostalgic. Commissioned as part of Live Cinema UK's The Unfilmables project, the film features a score composed by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019

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A mysterious pig disappearance brings chaos to a small town.

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A short animated documentary about what it means to be conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially intelligent; using hand drawn techniques to explore the human tendency to anthropomorphise simple drawings, and how we might do the same to machines. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition

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A bare all Avant-garde homage to silent stag films and pre-code Hollywood.