Projects in genres: Black and with status: Production, Post-production, Pre-production

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A non-linear iterated body of work investigating the sonic, visual and haptic frequencies of images, ancestral memory, transmission, oral tradition, and metaphors of radio technologies as sites of possibility for the African diaspora.

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15 year old Isaac Owino struggles to live in his everyday life of poverty, along with his mother who is a drug addict. However, things begin to take a dramatic turn as a package is delivered to his house.

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In a riverside café in Kent, a stranger cuts an odd figure. The cheerful but exhausted waitress Anne-Marie is barely holding it together when Freddie, her teenage son arrives suspiciously. The mystery deepens when the stranger seems to knows more about Anne-Marie and Freddie than anyone should know.

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Two young brothers on the run with their father, a decorated Marine, who is on a rescue mission to save his boys from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous and unexpected directions, the boys will need to confront hard truths and leave their childhoods behind.

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A scientist is overwhelmed when her mother dies suddenly, willing her a Christian bookstore in The Bronx.

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A deep and rich exploration of the complex ancestries of African diasporic cultural expression, inspired by post-colonial African spirituality and artistic practices from West Africa to the Caribbean and Europe. It mixes subtle and exquisite film with live choreography to create a visual poem of dynamic interactions between image, dance, ritual and music.

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This distinctive, epic, visual, ambitious and celebratory feature documentary, tells the story of how a young black boy from working class 1950s Dublin, became Ireland’s Greatest Rock Star. As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, a wildman. He wrote some of the most iconic and extraordinary rock songs the British Isles ever produced, and his rise from humble beginnings - a council estate raised by his grandmother - to sell out stadiums and international stardom, was spectacular and unprecedented. Told extensively through the words of Phil himself, and focusing on his iconic songs, the film weaves together audiotapes and rare home movies; features rarely and never-before seen archive, magnificent photographs and portraits; celebrates and explores the recollections and stories of those who knew and loved him - his family, his friends, his collaborators, and those inspired by him; deconstructs the songs and the songwriter; features loud and proud the glorious Lizzy performances; all woven in a collage of voice, image, memory and opinion, offering a powerful and definitive insight into the life and work of this iconic rock star.

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When the wife of Arsenal striker Brian Johnson died in childbirth, Johnson was at the top of his game with the world at his feet. Now, 30 years on, penniless, jobless and living on benefits, he manages the worst Sunday football team ever – the hapless Deportivo Wanka Football Club. And with a new record five-year losing streak, and no sign of a goal in the last 43 matches, they occupy the unenviable position at the bottom of all of Hackney’s ten leagues and if they end up last again, they’ll be removed from the league forever. It doesn’t help that the line-up of players include; his estranged son David who had trials with Arsenal but never showed up; Deano the goal keeper with a prosthetic hand and a fear of diving; Pingu, a brilliant but narcoleptic dwarf midfielder and a further assortment of violent, stupid and overweight underachievers more interested in the half-time burger van than scoring a goal. So when Brian’s life catches up with him in the form of a pitch-side heart attack, he’s brought before a football mad Almighty super-keen on meeting every passing ex-pro and coaching a football team to victory for one game (preferably Manchester United). Realising that he must do something to right his wrongs, Brian exploits God’s obsession with the beautiful game and makes a deal; he’ll put his soul on the line if God will accompany him back to earth and help coach the team to safety and give Brian one last chance to be a proper Dad to David. God agrees but there is one immutable rule; If Brian succeeds, he’ll pick up where he left off, but if he fails, his soul goes straight to Lucifer and damnation, the universal law and the price of a second chance. So Brian and God return to Earth and secure the victory extending Brian's life, but on the cusp of returning to Heaven, God learns that Lucifer has not only taken the vacant managerial position of Deportivos bitterest rivals, Salem FC but also talked Brian into signing over his soul. God, now feeling guilty for having served up Brian on a plate to the Devil, returns to Earth in recompense to help Brian undo his pact with Lucifer. However Lucifer double crosses the Lord into raising the stakes – and God ends up gambling on not just saving Brian’s soul but the souls of the entire world all on the outcome of one football match. Now all that stands between Brian and redemption is the Devil. And all that stands between the Devil and seven billion souls is God and the hapless footballing skills of one Deportivo Wanka FC. The final battle between darkness and light has just been dropped at the feet of a Sunday football team. God help us.

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Born In New York, Raised In Paris, chronicles the role of hip hop, in empowering disenfranchised black and Arab youths, in France, to highlight and protest police brutality.

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Over the course of week the documentary feature follows: a new immigrant; a local black woman, and an environmental activist as they interact with outliers from disparate subcultures along the Regent’s Canal as it streams from Paddington in the West London through Camden, King’s Cross and Islington towards Vicky in the East London. And a murder investigation into the death of a young female, where the police question joggers, cyclists, boaters and other canal users seeking witnesses to the crime. A contemporary social thriller about race, class, gender, sexuality, migration and outliers in 21st century London. Similar in tone to 'Dirty Pretty Things' and 'Crash'.

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A young Nigerian man is forced to address a secret he has harbored from his parents during a traditional, family gathering. Feature adaptation of Tomisin Adepeju's short film 'The Good Son'

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Nelson Mandela recounts his life story, from birth, through life to death surrounded by his grandchildren in unique drama-documentary featuring extraordinary unseen footage. Narrated by Mandela himself, one of history’s extraordinary enduring figures, his account reveals previously unheard, personal and touching testimony, teamed with emotional conflict. Travelling through time back to his beginnings as a rebellious young man in South Africa; his rebirth as a lawyer; 27 years imprisonment on Robben Island and finally to his release and free and fair elections and victory against Apartheid rule. The interviews and narration are the last oral and video account by the great man before his death. The film was edited by Gregers Salls (SENNA) and officially supported by the Mandela Foundation, and Mandela’s own family.