Combining cutting edge virtual reality filmmaking and multisensory storytelling, immerse yourself in the lives and struggle of the Munduruku Indigenous People deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
Stuck in a post high-school limbo, Tammy works long days in the family chip-shop. The only relief from the daily slog is her friendship with her colleague Jordan and her love for photography. Through the people around her, Tammy soon realises she can’t avoid her future.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Dare Strand
Sarah, an impulsive mixed race black turkish bollywood obsessed actress is persuaded to meet her ex Joel at a restaurant. She is engaged to her fiance Dev, a sensitive Indian rapper who mysteriously turns up at the venue.
An unseen location scout explores an opal mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semi-deserted region both the traces of indigenous culture and remnants of cinema history.
Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty and riches where the prospect of easy wealth tempts even good boys like Pic into bad ways. But if everyone believes the lie, what’s the problem?
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand
"Frank said 'Where would you like to live", I said "Anywhere but Bury St Edmunds'"
'Tea' follows Dolly on a day the isolation of Motherhood gets too much.
A homage to English countryside, the division of domestic labour and how so much can be solved with a cup of tea.
A dark comedy-drama, that follows the story of Arifa a British-Pakistani woman who reaches a crisis in her life when the escalation of her feelings for intriguing but evasive ‘professional gamer’ Riccardo, coincides with the reappearance of her estranged father, Hameed.
A story about an extraordinary group of people who go to incredible lengths to save the planet’s last animals. The documentary follows the conservationists, scientists and activists battling poachers and transnational trafficking syndicates to protect elephants and rhinos from extinction. From Africa's front lines to behind the scenes of Asian markets, the film takes an intense look the global response to this slaughter and the desperate measures to genetically rescue the Northern White rhinos who are on the edge of extinction.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2017 - Viewpoints - World premiere
A black and white poetic journey into the legacy of Derek Jarman's life and the eerie landscape and nature of Dungeness, Kent, England. Project shot in 2010 and elaborated in the following years, with completion in 2017.
Music Score by Cosmic Bird
A film created from the treasure trove of BFI archive. The story traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexual liberation and pride. The soundtrack weaves the lyrics and music of John Grant and Hercules & Love Affair with the images and guides us intimately into the relationships, desires, fears and expressions of gay men and women in the 20th century- a century of incredible change.
Starting with the first gay relationship on film released in 1919, 'Different From the Others', this documentary offers a wealth of unknown newsreel and amateur film from the 20s and 30s, the sub textual references in 40s cinema, the arrests and prosecutions of gay men for ‘gross indecency’ in the 50s, the early gay rights marches and decriminalisation of the 60s and 70s, the campaigns for an equal age of consent and against section 28, the Pride movement and AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s, the sexual liberation of the 00s queer and transgender scene and the chemsex, gay parenting and marriage campaign of recent years.
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017 - World premiere