Projects with status: Complete

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A mother struggling to make ends meet, details the incremental sacrifices she will make in exchange for her daughter's future.

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Over a game of cards three crime lords exchange stories about how an unknown assassin is killing gang leaders in their area. The problem is these stories seem too far fetched to be true. Who of the three is telling the truth and who is exaggerating?

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A bored gay couple go cruising for the first time, but when they get lost in the woods, the cracks of their relationship become chasms. Official Selection Frameline the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2024 - International premiere

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Haunted by the memories of his traumatic childhood, Dylan sets out on a hunt for the man responsible for the scars etched into his mind.

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In the face of the global economic and technological forces reshaping the city of Tangier, the profession of the bleach vendors seems to be on the verge of disappearance, yet this filmic portrait of their supply chain - and notably their insistent chanting - conveys acoustic and visual images of endurance. The film speaks to the accelerated urbanisation and industrialisation of Tangier, but also attests to how locally situated choreographies of Slowness articulate modes of resistance to the speed of capitalism. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024 - Forum Expanded - European premiere

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Striving to build a successful life in London, Reza places an ad in a peculiar newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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This film follows comedian Janey Godley on her 2023 Not Dead Yet Tour, after her diagnosis for ovarian cancer. Janey tours with her best mate Shirley, and daughter comedian Ashley Storrie. Intercut with her stand up we tell the story of her extraordinary life, told with her trademark take-no-prisoners honesty and dark humour. Janey grew up in poverty in Glasgow’s East End, her mother was an alcoholic. As a child Janey was sexually abused by her uncle. Janey tells the story of her mother's horrific murder, when Janey was 21, revisiting the river where her mother’s body was found. Age 19 Janey married into a notorious family of Glasgow gangsters, running a successful pub for them. When she and her husband fell out with his family Janey reinvented herself as a comedian. Janey talks about the sense of freedom tinged with guilt that she experienced when she became a comic, choosing to work away from her young daughter. Throughout the film Janey deals with the grim reality of stage 3 cancer, along with the highs and lows of touring, ending in an emotional show at Glasgow's 3,000-seater SEC. Official selection Glasgow International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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A depressed Jester sets out across plague-ridden England to rescue the Queen’s nephew and prove he is more than a fool.

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A fictional short film which explores the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession and the power in the return/retrieval. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the ‘Origin Story’. Official Selection Third Horizon Film Festival 2025

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As Sonnyboy, a young Romani man, struggles to come to terms with his father’s passing, a series of events threaten the family and their way of life. Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg 2025

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A journey through the memories of a young girl struggling to come to terms with the complexity of her mixed-raced identity. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A quest to find the truth behind a thirty year old memory, along the way connecting the dots between family, community, the power of place and the concept of home.