Adeline For Leaves explores nature, science and mythology through the eyes of an eleven-year-old botanical prodigy and her recently deceased, elderly mentor.
From multi-award-winning director Gillies Mackinnon this is the fascinating story of visionary Scottish engineer and developer of radar, Robert Watson-Watt (Eddie Izzard).
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere
The Rising is a short film which depicts an invasive alien species, Giant Hogweed, as it rapidly colonizes the British landscape. Filmed throughout its annual growth cycle, The Rising captures the plant's dramatic infestation along a lowland riverbank in northern England. Part natural history part sci-fi, The Rising features an atmospheric soundtrack score by Lord Mongo, and presents the alien interloper as both a dangerous toxic menace and impressive natural wonder.
Since 2007, in the forested depths of eastern Congo, a Belgian conservationist has led a team of Congolese rangers, charged with protecting the world's last remaining mountain gorilla population living in one of the most bio-diverse places on earth, the Virunga National Park.
‘Images of all past actions incessantly passing through the brain…’
An aging scientist, troubled and confused by remembrances from his past, toils night and day to (re-) discover secrets to the creation of life. The creature, struggling for existence in the natural world, journeys unceasingly to find its creator.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014 - World premiere
As part of the 150th anniversary of the London Underground the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Transport for London commissioned Wind & Foster to produce Engineering the London Underground. A film celebrating the illustrious 150 year history of London's Tube network and the vital role that civil engineers played in delivering one of the world's first and busiest transport networks.
The film takes viewers on an animated journey through the Tube's history including its period of reconstruction following the Second World War, the introduction of the world's first computer controlled underground railway on the Victoria Line, the construction of the Jubilee line and looks to the Tube's future.
The film, produced in collaboration with the London Transport Museum and Transport for London, is narrated by Eddie Butler and features animated photographs and footage from the Institution of Civil Engineers, British Film Institute, Crossrail, National Media Museum and TfL collections.
A ravaged London is in the midst of a civil war in which the battle-line isn’t race or religion: it’s gender. And the resource at stake isn’t land or wealth: it’s reproduction.
When Neil Platt is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 33, he makes the unusual decision to document his final months, not just in a blog (which he painstakingly dictates via frustratingly inaccurate speech recognition software) but by inviting a film crew into the home he shares with his tireless wife Louise and toddler son Oscar. The result is a heartbreaking, funny and tender portrayal of incredible fortitude and love (EIFF).
Ten years ago, a few enthusiasts decided to revive the historic salt production of Bourgneuf Bay in the west of France. They dug out and cleared the ancient salt pans to harvest Bay Salt once again. Over the course of a year, we come to appreciate Bernard, Daniel and Mano, three different personalities, united by a genuine attachment to their work and a deep respect for nature.
