Projects with status: Complete

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A bed and breakfast hotel in London with 100 bedrooms and a sign on the front door: 'No Vacancies'. Two words enough to identify it as a hotel for 'council people' - euphenism for refugees, homeless, mentally disturbed and others who have their accommodation paid and arranged by the local Council when they do not have a permanent place to live.

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A disturbing portrait of a young woman pushing against the boundaries of love and lust. Billy's passionate relationship with her friend Maria ignites her father's forbidden desire.   Winner of Best New Director at 2004 Brooklyn International Film Festival.

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A ground breaking, adrenaline charged tale of teenage hedonism that cascades around a game of Spin-the-Bottle.  

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Four London builders returning home from a contract job at Dartmoor prison accidentally knock down and kill a vicar. The worst is yet to come when they discover that their chosen burial site is hosting the World Metal Detecting Championships.

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Bill and Angela Miller have lost the spark in their relationship. When their neighbours go on holiday, Angela offers to look after their cat. Once inside the neighbour's flat, both Bill and Angela discover in turn a sensual, forbidden world that reminds them both of what they have left behind. Now they must remind each other.

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One night whilst struggling, under the pall of writer's block, to bang out an article on his computer, an overworked writer receives a knock on his head and dreams that his computer mouse has hidden itself inside his skirting board.

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A group of obsessed fans get more than they bargained for on the last night.

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A man and a boy have a tense confrontation on a deserted urban street.

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Sisi has become neglected by her lover, an artist, so she decides to leave. Realising that she still loves him, she returns home and discovers that she has been replaced! When she has successfully dispensed with her rival, their love is rekindled.

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Stuck is a nightmare, cliff-hanger in which the 'central' character is trapped in a situation and tormented by illusions of freedom. My intentions as the filmmaker was to produce a self-reþexive, absurd puzzle which experiments with ideas revolving around the sometimes-ominous power of the 'sanctuary of the screen'.

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This 3-hour documentary tells the story of Studio One, Jamaica's most important record label in the history of Reggae. Filmed in Kingston, the documentary has interviews with many of the artists who Studio One made famous - Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Sugar Minott etc. The main interview is with Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd, owner and founder, and the documentary tells the story of his life and the impact he has had on Reggae music in Jamaica and the rest of the world. Studio One is the foundation label of Jamaican Reggae. Often described as the Motown of Jamaica, Studio One is where the career of literally hundreds of Reggae artists began - Bob Marley and the Wailers, Alton Ellis, The Heptones, Ken Boothe, The Skatalites, Burning Spear - everyone! Lee Perry was a handyman there and Prince Buster a bouncer. The film also visits Trenchtown's old Dancehalls, the Alpha School for wayward Boys (run by Nuns), Tuff Gong Studios and Pressing Plant, Orange street (Jamaica's Tin Pan Alley) and many sites relating to the story. There is rarely seen vintage footage of musical performances, interviews, Haile Selaisse's arrival in Jamaica and even early music videos (from the 1960s). Much of this footage has rarely been seen outside Jamaica. Music is featured heavily in the documentary and the film mixes narrative and musical elements throughout.

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Christmas Eve 2001: Seamus - a lonely poster-paster who works the night shift at Aldwych tube station - is taken on a nocturnal journey by the spirit of a deceased train driver. Having resigned himself to a life of drudgery and routine, the poster-paster's drab existence is questioned by the spirits of those who have died in the station throughout its 100 year history. Subterrain is a modern day fable that uses as its inspiration the story of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the setting of Dante's Divine Comedy, with a conclusion akin to It's A Wonderful Life.