Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Rachel Maclean’s bright, emoji-feminist fairy tale-style touches a new darkness in her first completely animated short. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - What Are You Looking At?

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Stereotypes are overturned in this story of physical disability, where a group of friends on a council estate find a way to assert their independence using the gifts others see as flaws. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Shorts - Your UK Or Mine?

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When a young girl discovers that Santa is not real, she questions the lies told by adults and the terrible secret that she has been forced to keep.

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A reinvention of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance. The opening scenes of the film follow a Victorian family preparing a toy theatre for their annual performance of 'A Christmas Carol'. As the family's grandmother narrates the much-edited story and her grandchildren change the scenery, we enter the imagination of one of the children in the audience and watch as the cardboard stage, and the story with it, transforms into a darkly fantastical otherworld.

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A story of independence, about a hot water bottle who gets left out in the cold. Directed and animated by Jenny Wright, it is a silent animation, exploring the nature and values of relationships, comfort, support and abandonment, told through an evocative line drawing and watercolour style.

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With the help of their family, friends, and faith, three fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community in North Philadelphia. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - International premiere

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From Arthur Rimbaud’s enigmatic poems 'War and Fragments' of Folio 12, comes a stark warning to an age where time – fragmented, decontextualised and stored as optical or auditory data – accumulates, while memory fades. Official Selection Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen - World premiere

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A mother and daughter float in life pods in deep space, and battle to keep each other alive, and awake, during their own intergalactic lockdown.

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Retired Joy France attempts to break gender and age stereotypes by competing in the brutal, youthful, male-dominated world of battle rap. A story of one woman's daring attempt to embrace life.

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An elderly man meets a young woman in a café, and the deal that follows will alter their lives forever. NED AND ME explores the complexity of euthanasia and human transactions.

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In a dystopian Britain flooded by climate change, Arya is raised as a militant racist on an isolated island. When a mixed race stranger arrives, she sees the monstrous truth of her world through his eyes. Arya must decide between freedom and justice, and the only home she’s ever known.

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Dr Langdon is about to leave work, when she is struck from behind. She wakes in a room with several dead bodies and a lone 'survivor' who can't remember who he is or why he's here. Can she figure out the truth? Or will she run out of time?