Projects in genres: Woman Director

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An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom.
Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadors, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

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Thank You Skinhead Girl is a documentary which explores the filmmakers experience of being in care and becoming a skinhead girl during the late 70’s early 80’s.

It gives insight into a sub-youth culture that has been one of the most misunderstood, of all the youth groups. The film shows the historical rise of the skinhead movement, the fashion, music and the gang structure in Oxfordshire UK at the time.

Through the voice of the filmmaker we are taken into the personal reflections of that time, which shows a working class girl finding refuge within the skinhead movement. A place where she grew, survived, thrived and eventually learnt a very hard, uncomfortable lesson through violence.

The film features music from Reggae legends the ‘Symarip’, Oxford Ska band The Inflatables and Welsh Oi! band The Oppressed.

This film has been enabled by Screen South Community Projects Fund and OFVM – Film Oxford Production Equipment Award.
 
'Best Documentary' 8th International Short Film Festival Balchik, Bulgaria 2010, nominated 'Best Film' Portobello Film Festival 2009.

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Ted Matthews keeps finding objects that were lost on the street.
It is actually the objects that find him. Ted stopped looking for things long before he started to sleep with his violin.
Ted's music tells the story of every object found.
All imaginary tales like his own imaginary life.

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A feisty elderly woman’s sole purpose in life appears to be setting up an isolated roadside stand along the historic Camino de Santiago pilgrim route. A seemingly mundane daily task soon evolves into a humorous and charming observation on the importance of purpose, commitment and tradition.

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Our story is set in dusty downtown Cape Town, at a time when poisoned pigeons fall out of the sky and magic is hard to come by. This is the story of an outsider, a loner who doesn't know what she's looking for until she finds it.

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15 year-old Hulud has a dream; she is cracking the barrier set on the highway between the 1947 traditional Bedouin desert-life of a small Bedouin community and the 2007 modern city life of Beer-Sheba in the south of Israel. With her young brother and sister she goes on a journey that will enable her to let go of the life she once wished for.

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Roll up roll up! It's A Model Artist sideshow! See them paint! See them model! See them change colour!

An artist paints her model, without much success. The model takes matters into her own hands, but the artist has other ideas. Will they they paint their picture before the ringmaster closes the show? A silent sideshow styled by the silent era, modelled on the future.

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Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.

A'Mare is a story of childhood friendship shot in Sicily in original Sicilian dialect. Amati (director) worked with and directed two local children from Lipari Island to act as the lead characters in the film.

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When Alice and Dan meet their connection is undeniable; it's clear they are meant to be. But are they ready for each other? Confined in their small London flat, they magnify their differences, create conflict out of nothing, and slowly tear each other down.

A+D is a raw, edgy, and intensely intimate documentary-like examination of all the aspects of their romantic and sexual involvement. Unflinchingly exploring themes that challenge the idea of public versus private.

As Alice and Dan simply try to ‘get along’ we are reminded of our own failed loves, our own weaknesses, our own destructive patterns, all the while feeling like the lucky voyeur.

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Inspired by the BUPA Great North Run, Best's unqiue style of hand drawn animation captures the atmosphere of the event and the participating runners. Using a process called ‘occlusion’, silhouetted figures are made visible only as they pass each other. This emphasises the individual’s singular effort in amongst the crowd.

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Angela is a braid stylist to the stars. Wayne and Cyndia are the leading junior stylists at the UK's biggest chain of Afro hair salons. George and Apple are a Thai husband and wife team obsessed with Afro hair.

Michael is Birmingham's leading Afro stylist who is out to beat the all-powerful London salons. Afro-Saxons follows all of these stylists as they enter the Black Beauty and Hair awards - the most competitive Afro hair competition in the UK.

'An engaging and entertaining documentary - it's impossible to watch it without a smile on your face' (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian).

'A MUST-SEE FLICK - if you don't find it compulsive viewing, you're dead from the neck up' (Elsa O' Toole, NEW NATION).

'Big hair and bigger egos make for an entertaining and frequently amusing documentary - even those with no interest in hair will find something to amuse them in this admirably unusual film' (FILM FOUR).

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Aisha has only ever thought of herself as 'English', but her world collapses around her when the authorities decide otherwise.