Projects in genres: Woman Director

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11 year old Beanie’s bland life changes forever when Evil Stella and her flaming side-kick Fireboy show up in his back garden one day after school. Evil Stella is after The Golden Nit and kidnaps Beanie’s Mum and Dad thinking they have it. But this is no ordinary nit. The Golden Nit is the battery that powers the sun and if Beanie doesn’t get it home by sunset the sun will die and the universe is doomed. Aided by his shouty older sister Beryl, who has been shrunk to the size of a doll by one of Stella’s electric bubbles, Beanie sets out on a crazy adventure to rescue his parents and save the universe. Armed only with a tube of lazer lip gloss and some blend-in pants, their quest takes them across galaxies via a superhero supermarket, through wormholes, and up the Hairy Scary River escaping from moody mermaids and gold-thirsty pirates along the way. Beanie is helped, and hindered, by Ten Heart Hero who isn’t quite the hero Beanie first thinks he is. When it comes down to it – there really is only one hero who can save the day!

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This film was made collaboratively with three former child soldiers in Nepal. They tell their stories of why they joined the Maoist rebel war and take us back to their homes in the stunning mountains in remote districts of Nepal to meet their families and explain why they feel they had to join.

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There are many things we cannot choose in life, no one can choose their parents. You have to learn to love them before knowing them. My graduation film is about my personal feelings towards Hong Kong and its complicated relationship with China.

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On a deserted country road, a student happily accepts a ride back to town. However, the day takes a turn for the worst when the driver gives voice to disturbing thoughts.

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When two thirteen year old gymnasts are selected for the National training camp they learn something new about bodies, boys and friendship.

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A short experimental film where the surroundings of a woman are slowly revealed.

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Claude Cahun’s iconic photograph ‘Don’t Kiss Me/In Training’ was inspiration for a two line poem, a fractured couplet revealed and hidden throughout this piece about intimacy, tactility and the projected theatre of how it feels to be together. A game involving dressing up, repeated, with love. Training for feeling.

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Set in Stunning 1960's Cornwall and 70's Essex, David a boy of mixed race spends his days beach combing for treasure and fantasizing about a mythical mermaid. One day he is forced to run away from home following an attack from his abusive father. His quest to return home triumphant to his beloved county and the girl he loves, takes him on a roller coaster journey to sea through the wild gang life of 70's Southend and finally back to Cornwall to search for legendary ships treasure and to avert the tragic demise of his family.

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Set over the course of one day, ‘random’ is a touching and profound story which follows an ordinary family on an ordinary day whose lives are devastated by the impact of a random event.

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Ellie has a confirmed place in the RAF training cadets. All she needs is her Mum's permission to let her go.

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“Ballet dancers get dodgy feet from dancing and I get dodgy hands from making their shoes!” Ballet shoes may be worn by delicate girls, but they’re crafted by burly men whose hands tell another story... We delve into the world of professional ballet dancing seen through the eyes of a shoemaker who desperately strives to save the dancer as much pain as possible by making the shoes as well as he can. Meanwhile, a seasoned dancer talks of the pain she went through dancing at the highest level. An undiscovered world behind the pomp and perfection.

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A man is desperately knocking on the front door, in the hallway lies broken crockery and bottles. Steam from a whistling kettle begins to full the kitchen. The bathroom door is ajar and Niall is lying on the floor mumbling incoherently; we enter the world of a tormented soul.