Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A college student's search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - World premiere - Documentary Feature Competition - Special Jury Recognition for Innovation in Storytelling

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An experimental short about female desire, shame and betrayal. Drawing from a highly personal experience we follow a vulnerable young woman experiencing a breakdown via a collision of conflicting relationships and gender power struggles. Using physicality, haunting sound design and immersive camera work as vessels for intimate, multi-layered and unerringly contemporary story telling. Our lead finds herself on a repeating loop, the end is the start as she oscillates between what was and what is. Is she unable to escape her trauma and her psychological suffocation or patterning? The movement echoes the work of Pina Bausch, and in doing so draws links to the expression of the feminist landscape of emotion and conflict that we continue to work through.

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On her first day at a high school in rural Scotland, a London teenager is targeted for her afro hair by cocksure class bully and must harness her inner power. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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A powerful exploration into the implications of today's AI technology. An immersive film experience set in a future world where people are resisting weaponised technology and bias algorithms in favour of AI Democratisation which has now become a human rights issue. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - Winner XR Experience Competition Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2023 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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A reclusive man prepares for a date with a woman who lives in the same block. They meet and go to a cocktail bar nearby, but this is a first date that soon turns ugly.

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This dance mocap performance explores fantastical interaction and embodiment beyond the humanoid avatar form, challenging and reimagining the normative and ableist ways the body is understood and represented through immersive technology. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - XR Experience Spotlight - World premiere

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Renee loses herself in a controlling relationship and the abuse she suffers gets worse until she is utterly trapped. Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2023 - Student Films Competition

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Troubled young boy befriends a voice-controlled phone assistant who accidentally prepares him for the real challenges in life.

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"Only when I was singing did I feel loved...to sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming." In this experimental film, Maria Callas is transfigured in recordings of different performances - Norma, Tosca and Medea. The film is composed as an audio-visual ICONOSTASIS (a wall of icons) of different archive formats and newly shot footage. MARIA is a transcendent experimental vision of an icon, artist and woman.

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Christina, a British singer, arrives in Malta in 1937 to entertain the troops. She meets and falls deeply in love with daredevil RAF pilot, Warby, as the shadow of the Second World War draws ever closer to their island paradise. Based on a true story.

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Mona, a young woman in London, finds archived photographs of Arab women cross-dressing in the 1920s. Somewhere between her fantasies and reality, she starts a feverish journey of uncovering lost histories and her own identity. Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Exploring the relationship between people and birds through a combination of hand drawn animation and photographic collage, centring around the community of pigeon keepers in Glasgow.