Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Charting a year in the life of a tenant hill farmer and his family as they try to breed the perfect sheep. Through the rain, shine, sleet and snow we see them toil away against the stunning landscapes of North East England, and witness the hard work and good humour that binds this remote community together. Beautifully observed and laugh-out-loud funny, this heart warming film provides an insight into the past, present and future of a way of life far removed from the high-tech hustle and bustle of modern life. Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016 - World premiere

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Set in 1960s London, Blotter is psychedelic exchange between a doctor and his patient as they trip on LSD. What seemingly feels like a normal conversation between a housewife and her therapist melts into a trippy projection of ire and lust.

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Shot on Super 8 film, Dueto features two of English National Ballet's outstanding dancers, both of whom were born in Brazil. The film looks at what it means for a dancer to leave their homeland behind as they pursue a career in classical ballet.

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Gloucestershire, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world’s first smallpox vaccine.

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The fragile balance of a society ruled by individualism is about to collapse with the promise of the crash of an asteroid on the giant distraction machine that the world is.

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Peter (Dir. Jane Topping, 2014) seeks to re-frame what is considered a classic of dystopian cinema (Blade Runner, 1982, dir. Ridley Scott) with the intention of positioning the artist within the text. Peter manipulates found footage and narrative voice in order to reveal difficulties of viewer identification when watching Blade Runner.

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Set entirely inside a shopping centre, SYSTEM follows the interactions between two sisters; one anxious about her personal safety, the other concerned with the invisible threat of infection. The sterile atmosphere of the environment quickly becomes menacing as the women’s personal safety systems begin to fail.

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An unlikely candidate finds that things are not quite as they seem when he arrives to try out for a traditional Chora band. Pressed into playing a possessed tambourine, the world around him quickly spirals out of control.

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A forensic examination of memory and place. The hidden history of the Roma Holocaust told through the testimony of five witnesses and survivors. Seventy years after the event they are still living next-door to the mass graves…some marked, but others long forgotten amongst the forests and wheat fields of Poland.

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Space, forms, colours and sounds symbolise a recognisable world. Do we shape as much as we are shaped?

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As editor of The Sunday Times for fourteen years, Sir Harold Evans proved to be the right man in the right place at the right time. In an investigative climate all too rare by today's standards, Evans had the freedom and resources to allow teams of journalists to work on long-term projects, including the exposure of Kim Philby as a Soviet spy. Evans' longest and most hard fought campaign was for the victims of Thalidomide. Originally developed by the Germans in World War II to counter effect sarin gas, post-war the drug was blithely prescribed by British doctors as an antidote to morning sickness, unwittingly leading to tens of thousands of children being born with serious defects. The Sunday Times' fight to win compensation for their struggling families would take more than a decade, as Evans tenaciously pursued the drug companies through the English courts and beyond. Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 - World premiere

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A short film with complimentary mobile app (‘The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Affairs’) - set in the early 19th Century when a fictional colony of humans lived underwater. The mobile app is an animated compendium of aquatic inventions developed alongside the film to give audiences a multi-platform experience of the film-world.