Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A moving portrait of the UK housing crisis, told through the experience of one family. Filmed over a year, Daisy-May is both director and daughter as her and her family fight to retain their dignity whilst they wait to be rehoused by the council. This is an extraordinary story of courage and determination, a story of family bonds which is both heart-breaking and life affirming, combining moments of tremendous tenderness and grit with some unexpected humour. HALF WAY offers an alternative narrative from the current exhausted media coverage of the housing crisis; it does not, and cannot, shy away from the harsh actualities of homelessness.

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A child's take on adoption. Mercy tries to make sense of her adoption while looking after a fallen Baby-Bird. Both facing an uncertain future.

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A conversational journey through the ongoing gentrification in a major borough of London’s East End. Previously a home for the poor and hub for a huge number of artists, Hackney has recently seen an extortionate rise in property prices, forcing a large part of the population to move further out.

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Based on Skype conversations with Gaza-based photographers, fixers and drivers who were behind specific images that were transmitted from screen to screen in the summer of 2014. The film probes the face of mourning and grief- its digital embodiment, transmission, and representation. It asks how the gaze gets channeled within the digital realm, and how empathy travels. Equally, how the documentary signifier - and its abstraction - operate when viewing suffering from behind one's LCD screen. What exactly is viewing suffering ‘at a distance’- and how many meters or kilometers is that? What is the behavior and political economy of the image of war? And who is the ‘local’ in the representation of war? (Oraib Toukan)
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Forum Expanded

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A foreign graduate struggles to find work and falls into London's sex industry and criminal underbelly. We followi the lives of the employees and clients of an illegal massage parlour in London, as seen through the eyes of the receptionist, a Taiwanese graduate.
A film inspired by true events.

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The friend zone... We have all been there! Wondering if that glance from your crush meant something and if you will ever muster the courage to do something about it?
Meet Adam and Emma with their cute, but unavoidable, problem. Brought to life through the illustrations of Meng-Chia Lai.

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A family of arctic foxes learns to cope with the fact that one of them is fading away. A story about losing and remembering.

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When your memory fades, your grip on reality becomes fragile and the sense of self slowly slips away. In a synagogue hall in North West London, a group of elderly people gather to find release. Using music and song they try to reconnect with themselves. Through the poetic use of poignant personal photographs and carefully assembled voiced-over memories, this film takes us into the emotional heart of these people, coping with the onset of Dementia.

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In 1943 a convoy of 120 left Treblinka and moved to the Northeastern part of Italy. They had completed Aktion Reinhardt and were ready to engage in anti-partisan combat in Trieste and Istria. Buried in silence, this is the story of an unknown concentration camp of the Axis.

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Taking as its starting point the photographic archives of the Thistle Foundation and Craigmillar Festival Society, rather than examining the known facts and details of the photographs held in the archives, the narrator uses them to recall her own memories of making photographs as a teenager.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

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Set in the late 1990s. After a prank goes wrong on the estate tensions run high. Sarah-Lee learns that it's not always fun and games when it comes to growing up.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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How much of our mother can we really know? This animated documentary explores three men’s recollections.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand - World premiere