Projects in genres: Dance

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1 Day is a high octane caper through a day in the life of an inner city hustler. The film follows Flash whose day gets steadily worse when he finds out he suddenly has to repay a debt to his big head, Angel, and he has to find the money fast. As more and more people get on his case and the clock starts ticking, Flash is pursued by everyone from a rival gang, the police, three irate babymothers and his granny. Entirely street cast film, the film was shot on location in Birmingham. It features original hip hop and grime tracks - as well as gospel, reggae and spirituals -making it the first ever British hip hop film. While Flash gets robbed, harassed and shot at, the film explores life for many young men in the Afro-Caribbean community which originated the urban music at its heart.

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Every man has a song in his heart, so what do you do when someone else is singing yours? Set in Manchester, London and Barcelona, A Drop Of The Pure tells the story of a Manchester lad who returns home from London to set up an Acoustic Night above a pub, to get a his soul back and play from his heart again. Then he must fight to save the night from closing. Mixing drama and documentary and including performances from some of the best of Manchester's acoustic scene.

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The ever-shifting shape of Analogue Futurism.  

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Music documentary about cult 'punk poet' Patrik Fitzgerald (born as Patrick Joseph Fitzgerald in Stratford, London, March 19, 1956) - son of working-class Irish immigrant parents, he began recording and performing during the punk rock movement in 1977. Composer of punk anthem 'Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart', Fitzgerald kicked against the punk orthodoxy by performing waif-like and vulnerably alone with an acoustic guitar and a tattered book of poems at the height of the punk revolution

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Three students drift through the genres of their favourite Asian flicks. Their arguments take them into an array of comic fantasy scenarios, from Bollywood song-and-dance spectaculars through to blood-soaked bulletfests and creepy nighttime terrors in this entertaining comment on modern British filmmaking.

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Jean notices a chip on a treasured vase. She accuses Maurice, her husband since whenever. He denies it. Employing a variety of tactics, Jean gets to the bottom of the situation. This unique musical-of-sorts matches every syllable of dialogue to every note from cornetist Rex Stewart's 1966 recording 'Conversation Piece'.

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Can one man with a dream win the heart of the world's most powerful woman? This is a documentary like none you have seen before - the first musical docu-tragi-comedy in the history of cinema. Part Borat, part Fahrenheit 9/11, part Mamma Mia!, it follows a love-struck soul's hilarious, emotionally engaging, and ultimately shocking quest to woo former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.   A spin on the Rapunzel fairy-tale, this unique romantic/political/biographic feature follows Devin Ratray, a portly website designer, musician, former child actor (famed as Buzz in Home Alone), and besotted admirer of Condi, as he prepares to meet her.   As Devin travels the country, learning more about the great lady from those who know her, Courting Condi tells the life story of one of our era's most inspiring, enigmatic, and controversial figures. This film is both timely and a classic love story, punctuated by timeless songs.   It's the first retrospective of the Bush Adminstration and will inspire audiences to laugh, sing and protest about the past eight years.

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Music promo for Richard Anthony Jay's Gone... but not forgotten (featuring Davy Spillane). The video was produced entirely using public domain archive footage and internet sourced materials supplemented with scanned items and photographs. Composited and animated digitally, the film captures the essence of shared memories through four different family histories.

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Keith, an ordinary gaming geek who works the graveyard shift at the only all-night convenience shop in the city, has grown used to the occasional disruption to the monotony when he exterminates zombies that wander nightly into the shop. One night Keith is distracted by Suzi, and must convince her that the walking undead really do inhabit the city after she witnesses a zombie killing. They are thrown together in an adventure riddled with strange denizens of the night as they cross the infested city. But they are followed by an ancient priest-magician, mistakenly raised as a zombie by a bumbling necromancer. Suzi becomes enchanted with the Dark Lord's Gothic looks and is drawn into a sinister enchantment as he seeks to unravel the interwoven spells that have enslaved him to undead existence. Despite his jealousy, Keith vows to protect Suzi with his life. Suzi is torn between Keith's devotion and her unnatural attraction to the Dark Lord. A final showdown between the Dark Lord and Keith will determine the fate of Suzi, the city, and perhaps even the world.

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Frank, a mental patient, receives his daily medication which causes him to run through the hospital causing havoc, but when he reaches the main gates he decides to make a break for freedom.

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Following the success on In Search of Mozart director Phil Grabsky goes in search of Beethoven. No other composer has been so often quoted, written about, adopted for political and revolutionary causes (ranging from Marxism to fascism) and painted, but who was the real Beethoven? Who was the man behind the romantic image of the tortured artist with the unruly hair, unhinged personality and furrowed brow? This new film will explore the truth behind the many layers of myth and legend surrounding a man hailed not only as the world's first truly independent composer, but also the most important.

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Coming off the Robbie Williams tour, musical director eighties brit pop star Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy is fed up and completely disillusioned with the corporate music machine and decides to check out permanently and pursue his folk-political roots in the countryside. Along the journey he reunites his critically acclaimed band The Lilac Time to play the Green Man Festival in Wales, and rediscovers what it was originally about. 'We used to do it for the love, didn't we. People have forgotten that.' Duffy wanders as far as Cornwall before rediscovering meaningful poetic life. Sculptor Jon Edgar makes an appearance as he forms a terra cotta head of Duffy, who he believes will remain one of the key figures in arts and culture for future generations. It's a classic story of art versus commerce, disillusionment and rebirth told through one of the UK's most prolific recording artists, with archival super 8, stills, and historical footage from the 1960s through to the present. Much of the film is narrated by Duffy himself, the director Douglas Arrowsmith has poured over the archives and Duffy's own memoir to assemble an inspiring piece for any fan of music, poetry, and life's greater meaning.