Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A portrait of Peggy Smith and her husband Leslie - a retired cruise ship drummer - as they bicker their way through their old age in a London retirement home.

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Marjorie is an 89 year old retired vaudevillian actress. Fortunes have faded, but the memories of her magnificent past are vibrant. Marjorie's stark, subdued current existence is illustrated through the use of animated documentary. The film inter-cuts with fantastical, dreamlike, animated imagery which depict her memories of a happier time.

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A day in the life of a couple fulfilling the tradition of Nidah.

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This artists' film explores a painting depicting the attack on the Golden Temple, Amritsar, by Indian Troops in 1984 and parallels Sikh sentiment surrounding this event with the Christian tradition of the 'Via Dolorosa' (Passion of Christ), thereby highlighting the universality of political corruption and human rights abuses.

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Office Tigers is a feature-length documentary about an office full of young Indian workers and the American and Indian executives teaching them what it means to be professionals. Set in an American-owned company in India, which does highly confidential support work for the world’s top law firms, consultancies, and investment banks, the documentary offers a rare and comic look at the strange new world of cross-cultural corporate training and at the lifestyles of young urban professionals in a conservative South Indian city. This is a company on a mission, spreading American corporate culture one manager at a time. 

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Peppermint is a present day drama about Beth, a young teenager whose life is a difficult mix of emerging sexuality, turbulent relationships and personal insecurity. The story circles around Beth's attempt to validate herself in the eyes of her competitive mother Ann, resulting in a series of shocking revelations which unfold in the space of one difficult day. Caught in the emotional crossfire are Mike and Nan, the people closest to the pair. Through their interactions emerges a past of parental neglect and irresponsible adulthood, which looks inevitably set to repeat itself.  

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Set in 1973. single Dad, Jimmy focuses all his energies on the welfare of his eight-year-old daughter, Laura. When he sees her being bullied on the way to school he intervenes, but in doing so misses a court appearance. As Jimmy and Laura escape to the countryside they have no way of knowing how their perfect day will end.

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A surreal adventure into the minds of five phobiacs in a waiting room.

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Filters and lines, salty mouths, a family on the edge of the sea.

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A twisted adaptation of the original folk legends of Little Red Riding Hood, from before it was mutilated by the Brothers Grim. Little Red meets the wolf. But he'll live to regret the encounter.

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A recently arrived American notices a woman living in a partially demolished house on a massive development site in Shanghai, a row of welcoming red lanterns strung proudly over her doorway. This film captures the final days of the Red Lantern House and the beginning of an unlikely friendship.

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River Crossing is based on true story. A childhood memory of two sisters on a family excursion. Instructed by a dominant father to cross a dangerous river and return a stranger's belongings to the opposite bank, two young girls almost drown. A girl's voice narrates the main event but at the start of the river crossing, it is replaced by a woman's voice. This memorable day becomes the turning point of the girl's life, with no possibility of return. Running water, the wide river and the crossing serve as metaphors for her rites of passage to adulthood: the moment she grew years in a single day.