Projects in genres: Woman Director

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When successful artist, Woods, suddenly loses his beloved wife Marie in horrific circumstances, his heart breaks. Winter tells the story of a father’s emotional break-down and the effect it has on his two young sons, 19 year old Tom and 14 year old Max, their struggle against the system and their love for each other.

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This film sets out to solve one of the greatest mysteries of our age: why despite rising material wealth, many Western countries are experiencing profound social breakdown.
This real life detective story unravels the big story of the unprecedented shifts in income and wealth that have occurred over the last 35 years – the how, why and who. At the heart of the story is the shift to the freedom of the market, freeing businesses to create wealth for all, and make everyone better off.
As markets were freed and the financial sector deregulated, the wealth flowed to the top. Between 1979 – 2007 the top 1% of US households gained 275%, compared to 18% for the bottom fifth. A series of human narratives piece together the realities of life for those at varying ends of the income spectrum in the developed world today - a harsher society where stress, crime and fear are rising, and we increasingly see those around us as "other". Could economic differences be driving these social differences?
Inspired by he award-winning book 'The Spirit Level' by Professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the film features Michael Marmot, Noam Chomsky, Alan Budd, Ha-Joon Chang and Alexis Goldstein.

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A vague narrative is created to follow the structure of original Tarot card, Major Arcana, such as The Fool’s Journey, throughout the following 21 scenes.
This piece was made after the creation of a series of tactile 22 collage works that were heavily inspired by Derbyshire’s history, myths and legend. This collage itself also forms a new Tarot, loaded with symbolism, intrigue and mystical imagery.

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An extraordinary journey with two hunters - a deerstalker and a trickster – who patrol a semi-fictional landscape until the trickster creates a weapon that causes his own demise.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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Taking as its starting point American modernist William Gaddis’ epic experimental novel, JR, 'Crippled Symmetries' meditates on questions of indeterminate value and what it means to grow up in a society beset by abstraction.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Narratives mined from online drug user support forums, where codified anonymising practices create an uncanny duality of simultaneous intimacy and disavowal.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A meditation on the nature of moving image making.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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When a vintage Nokia mobile phone is recharged, a compelling real life story is revealed, in this mixed media documentary short.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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Out of prison, 19-year-old Niamh returns to her baby girl, only to face bad blood with her own mum.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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Following the death of their friend, two women in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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In this comedy about cold feet, Emily, ready for the wedding of her dreams, meets Rob, a Henry VIII street entertainer, and takes it as a bad sign. Beheadings, divorces and annulments race through her mind, but marriage will make everything better...right?
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP), the filmmaker comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran in the 1930s who was later to embark on a search for the origins of civilisation. 'The Host' sets out on its own exploration, to decipher signs from the fragmented images buried in the BP (British Petroleum) Archive. This journey through the past interweaves a number of stories drawn from both personal memory and the records of an imperial history, which builds a picture of a 20th-century colonial encounter. 'The Host' is a personal essay film about the stories we tell about ourselves and others, the facts and fictions we live by, and their consequences. (LFF brochure)
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere