Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Existing within the possibilities of the theatrical and cinematic frame, a figure enters the spotlight feet first - a 'starlet' born by breech. She moves as a figure in flux of femme fatale and demoiselle, meshing the physical architecture of cinematic suggestions of these two archetypes.

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Gerald Wells stole his first radio, a Belmont, in 1943 at the age of thirteen. He was immediately sent to an approved school, whose psychiatrist diagnosed an obsession with wireless and electricity, an obsession that continues today.

The house Wells was born in and still inhabits is now home to over 1,500 wireless objects and 45,000 valves. Analogue Kingdom is a poetic portrait of Wells, founder and curator of the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum. It reveals the charm of Wells' world, where radio relics and their attendant stories fill every nook and cranny.

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A real life RomCom starring Mills & Boon devotees from across the world.

Demure Japanese housewife Hiroko yearns to be swept off her feet by a dashing David Beckham look-alike. When she takes up ballroom dancing lessons with dishy Mr Iijima, will fantasy become reality?

Feisty Indian princess Shumita has grown tired of playing the victim since her debonair husband left her for a younger woman. Deep down she knows she's the true love of his life and she's out to get him back.

Single Mum Shirley has finally found true love with her very own hero. But her knight in shining armour has his dark side: together they must find a way to hold onto their happy ending.

Sexy romance cover model Stephen can get any woman he wants. But he won't settle for anything less than his 'eternal flame' and he's having trouble finding her.

Glamorous author Gill Sanderson delivers five Mills and Boon titles a year to her devoted readers across the world. However, Gill is in fact Roger, a pensioner writing from a small caravan in the Lake District.

Five heroes, four continents, one dream of true love. Because real life begins where Mills and Boon ends.

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An 18 year-old girl arrives at St Andrews University in 2001 to find an alien world of glossy, upper-class girls intent on seducing their fellow student Prince William. Isolated, she finds hope in a mysterious boy who wears a silver jacket.

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In the land of Frumania, Appleby Cox's-Pippin is forced to begin a journey in search of 'being the same' as his shallow,fellow Frumans; but a harsh lesson awaits him as to what really lies close to the Fruman heart - greed.

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Lonely ten year old Stella's world changes when a strange young man enters her life with heart-breaking consequences.

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In the darkness of a stalled underground, something swaps the feet of two strangers. As one is a rugby player and the other ballet dancer, it's not going to come out well for either of them.

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Jody has insomnia. Almost every night she leaves her sleeping husband and child and fills the lonely twighlight hours walking the streets of suburbia. But tonight is different; at the local 24- hour garage a passionate young couple have caught Jody's eye.

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A warm-hearted documentary about how Britian caught the flamenco bug. Elders of the British flamenco scene recount how they fell into the world of Spanish dancing which shaped their lives and influenced future generations. Personal stories are told against a vivid background of archive footage and photos.

For this documentary, Spanish Steps Film organised a flamenco reunion party in a Soho restaurant, where the flamenco culture had been incubated in post-war Britain. Here flamencos gathered to play, dance, sing and remember the old days.

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This short animated comedy comments on the underground British music scene and the men it encompasses.

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Laika is a re-imaging of the true story about the first dog in space and what may have happened to her on her momentous journey.

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Lucia has been living in England since the 1990s Balkans War. This is the story of her journey home to Croatia, to introduce her English-speaking son to her elderly mother. She finds her eccentric mother living in a rural farmhouse and comedy ensues as Lucia tries to modernise her traditional way of living.

But Lucia cannot escape the traumatic remnants of the war, particularly when tragedy beckons as she discovers they are surrounded by minefields.