Projects in genres: Woman Director

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In the documentary Streetkids United II - The Girls From Rio a Brazilian girls football team is followed as they prepare themselves for the tournament that will change their lives forever, the Street Child World Cup. In the midst of police and drug gangs confrontations the Favela Street Girls strive to keep their dreams alive.

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The Collector's Case was produced during Yelena Popova’s residency at Upton House, a National Trust property in Warwickshire. The video records the time Popova spent working with the collection of paintings at Upton House and reflects on the temporality of a painting collection.

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The Lawes of the Marches documents the ancient border tradition of the Common Ridings all along the border of England and Scotland. These ridings are about marking and commemorating the past with as much relevance today as when they began in 1500.

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A three part series film: VIETNAM AND THE WAR; THE TV WAR; FALLOUT & RECOVERY This is the story of America's War with Vietnam and how it began. The film takes us on a journey from the fight for freedom from the French, the escalation of American involvement and contemporary US politics. Well known journalists contribute. Music of the era informs the film.

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Everyone in the world has the same identity. Over a period of time, one person starts to discover he's different and can move on his own accord. He realises he has his own identity and decides to separate from everyone else.

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Belgium - France border, May 1940 During the British retreat to Dunkirk, two soldiers take cover in a church cellar. Trapped behind enemy lines, they must try to survive without any resources.

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Weaving around a theory of immortality based on the premise that our lives are a summation of all the information we consume and process, the film draws on my personal history's brush with a global nuclear disaster, to precipitate a meditation on the potential role of an individual in the imaginary film/event of our individual or collective death: as a protagonist or an extra appearing in a handful of frames at the very moment of their death.

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Inspired by the words of Nelson Mandela, OF THE UNKNOWN explores the living conditions of Hong Kong’s so-called ‘cage dogs’.

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In a dull, organised world a curious girl longs for some joy — against the wishes of her rule-obeying mother. When the girl follows a strange cat that doesn’t fit into society’s standards, she discovers a boisterous underground filled with life. She decides to introduce it to the surface.

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In a small house in the clouds, two small characters are making tea amongst the rubble and trying to put the pieces together. This skin we're in is a drawn animation about domesticity, mental illness, and daily life in the aftermath.

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A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love. Based on Ivan Turgenev's play ' A Month in the Country'

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A profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain. After Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien world, bereft of language and logic. From unpredictable first-time neurological experiments, through to the extraordinary revelations of her altered mind Lotje takes us on a genre-twisting tale that is by turns excruciating and exquisite.