A portrait of teenage escort, Coco. Winner of the Illy Prize for Best Short Film, Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2015
"What begins as a summary of online reviews of a teenage escort becomes a provocative and formally audacious commentary on the fluidity of identities and perceptions of young women in the Internet age. Indeed, the only thing that's certain is that all these people who claim to know "Coco" may not know anything at all."
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Debate Strand
A troubled teenage boy, growing up in a dreamless wilderness and isolated from those around him, is stripped of his dignity as his father abandons him for the outside world which he is trying to retreat from.
Olivier and James' romantic break in the South of France is interrupted by the sudden arrival of Caroline. Friendships are questioned; sexuality tested.
Set in 1980, Jake, a college student , after fighting with his absentee father, decides to hitch hike across the country. He is picked up by an older man, a con artist, Smitty, recently broken out of jail. As they travel through the back roads of Texas, they slowly bond.
Trevor's life has become a void, following the passing of his wife Doris. Days blur as Trevor slowly finds himself isolated and alone, unconcernedly slipping towards death. A chance encounter in the park with a mysterious stranger jarringly reawakens him, and forces both men to once again start to live.
Based on celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's novel 'Bone in the Throat', with the action re-located from Manhattan to London. A gritty fast paced story about a young ambitious chef who, while trying to focus on getting ahead in his career, gets pulled into the East End London mob by his uncle, who expects him to step up and join him. He now has to work quickly to undo his uncle’s mess, while staying alive and out of jail.
SXSW 2015 - World premiere
The story of an ordinary family in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. As they go about their normal lives, they are caught in the crossfire between the Narco drug cartels and the military.
"Following the kidnapping of her husband by a cartel, a woman named only as ‘Daughter 2’ grieves and tries to keep her family together. Her community band around her, with over 100 local taxi drivers going on a search to find the missing husband – to little avail, as they find him murdered the next day. Violence has a way of being contagious and Daughter 2’s son, on a misguided search for justice, joins a defence militia, while Daughter 2 herself suffers from anxiety and depression as she tries to keep her fractured family together. Narrated as a poetic hybrid of documentary and fiction, the screenplay is a transcript of conversations of the family recorded over a period of two years. Actors play the members of the family to protect their identity, but we are able to hear the actual recordings throughout the film, reminding the audience that these people are real."
A multi-faceted story that takes place on an alternate future time line of Earth. A mysterious astronaut crash lands in the middle of an empty field. Elsewhere a young girl stows away on a touring vessel bound for the restored natural borders of the abandoned surface cities of a once thriving metropolis to search for her family. Further still, a prisoner and supposed terrorist, awaits training for a mission to mars that is causing political and social uproar. Fate causes all their paths to cross, but to what end? An exploration of life in a world struggling to re-imagine itself, and the people who inhabit it
