Projects in genres: Woman Director

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An exiled Venezuelan director returns to his collapsing country to make a fiction film based on his own self-destructive father, who he casts to play himself. Father and son venture to the Amazon jungle, revisiting past traumas in a country that offers them no future. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF explores the ways a son who left and a father who stayed face the pains of their past and the uncertainty of their future, all through the catharsis of making a film.

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FACTORY TALK is an intergenerational conversation about identity, sexuality and masculinity in a rural factory. Through the clanging of metal they make small talk, but as the gripes and grumbles testify to better times, the questions rising on the factory floor are of more than just nostalgia.

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A young woman struggling to process her recent Aspergers diagnosis finds an empowering, magical talent for animation.

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When tree surgeon Laura discovers her twin sister’s commemorative oak is dying, she returns to their childhood home seeking the threads of connection. Here she must repair broken bonds with her estranged brother Joe before she can say goodbye to Eloise.

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A man is found drowned in a few inches of water. His only ID is his tattoo.

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TOYHOOD matches stop-motion animated toys with non-scripted interviews with immigrants living in the UK, making it appear that the toys are being interviewed about their children and pets, and how much they'd miss them if they were gone. Made in response to Brexit, TOYHOOD is a celebration of our neighbours.

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All things buried will resurface.
Focused on the last weeks of the life of an archaeology professor, whose academic world is thrown into turmoil when forced to exhibit the 2000-year-old bog body he excavated with his former student and lover.
As places, events and his relationships appear to conspire in the analysis of the bog body, he concocts an ‘archaeology of the living’. Forced to confront painful home truths created by the love affair that tore his family apart, he enlists the help of a young security guard at the university who has his own peculiar reasons for an intense devotion to the body. Increasingly affected by his illness, his final address at the opening of the exhibition becomes the haunting soundtrack to a brutal murder, an event for which he, as an act of atonement, is prepared to pay the ultimate price.

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A British-Nigerian woman tormented by her inability to have children experiences a transformative baptism leading her on an unexpected journey that offers her a chance to rebirth herself.

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Brian, Sara, Justin and Celine, four very different colleagues, find their days in the office unwittingly messed with when their new photocopier "Trixie" secretly comes to life and goes to extreme lengths to stop their inner office meddling.

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There's no stopping where a bike can take you.

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This short British action comedy is a story of two women on a mission - one to pay to her overdraft, the other to stop a bank robbery. The adventure begins.

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By presenting a poetic expression of the interrelationship between the artist and the inspiration of flowers as a dynamic artistic sensibility, FLOWER DUET is exploring sustainability and global warming issues through this experimental hand-painted (pastel/water colour) animated poem film from the director’s artist point of view.