Projects with status: Complete

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Behind every face lies a story. Bobby, Sumi and TJ draw people's portraits in Leicester Square. What do they think about while they sit and wait for customers all day in this busy place? Where did they come from? Why are they there? The filmmaker explores themes of migration, memory and loss by drawing her own portrait of their lives.

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Princess is a stylish black comedy played out in a dream world. A madly possessive Father, holds his Daughter prisoner at home. She's in love with a Young Man but her Father disapproves.





Hoping to put an end to this affair once and for all, the Father advertises for a suitable husband ...

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Funky short mixing pinhole photographs with new technology, commissioned to celebrate the opening of the new Lux Centre in Hoxton Square, London.

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Modern-day setting of the legend of Prometheus who stole fire from the gods. Michael Feast plays Hermes, the messenger of the gods, as a 'narrator' figure. The first third of the film is set in the Yorkshire mining community with modern dialogue. The remainder of the film goes into rhyming verse. The second part of the film is the journey through Europe with a 20 foot high gold-leafed statue, symbolically representing the mining community, and the last third is set in Greece, where the miners are released from the statue.

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It is the spring of 1936. An isolated Portuguese village. While his wife works, Batola idles his life away, waiting... for nothing. Then one day a salesman comes, bringing... radio.

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A Rave is on. We follow a DJ from 'Insanity Sound System' as he breaks into a warehouse and rigs his equipment. He explains why and how he organises illegal raves. We meet two ravers, one who calls himself a 'techno-tourist' since he travels all over Europe to party and a girl who goes to raves every weekend and enjoys taking drugs.

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Even in 1850, when she was still traditionally 'alive', the beautiful Lilith Silver was a tough, dynamic headstrong lady. During a flintlock pistol duel, fought for her honour by her handsome lover Jack Ryder and the sinister scarred Sir Sethane Blake, Lilith produced a pistol of her own and took a pot shot at Blake. Yet despite inflicting a wound that would have killed a mere mortal, Blake just smiled. Lilith herself was then brutally gunned down. Not allowing his prize to die, Sethane Blake bestowed the dark gift of the vampire to Lilith. Now eternity is her playground! We pick up the story in the present day. Lilith is comfortable in the '90s - she is the most free spirited and outrageous woman you'll ever meet - with a coffin full of weapons in her bedroom! Lilith is keen to educate us about what a vampire really is and we join her in her search for lust, love and new blood.

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Victor Kelly is a gangster and ruthless murderer - a 'Scarface' for the 90's. Modelling himself on Cagney and Dillinger, Kelly is the leader of a gang of killers. His cruelty makes him a ghastly local legend, both feared and venerated. On his trail is Ryan, a journalist, fired by an obsessive need to discover the truth about the so called 'Resurrection Men' putting his own life at risk.

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The story begins with a young American man flying overseas to hunt rhinos in Africa with his estranged girlfriend who is currently living in Paris. As the background of the story is revealed, we learn that his search for her may not be as sincere and untainted as he had led everyone to believe. Upon arriving in Paris, the young man encounters Teen, a lonely despondent girl in need of comfort who offers to help in the search, only to discover that the girlfriend, who now goes by the name of Lola, is working as a stripper in Budapest with her new manager. After a fall out with Teen, the boy makes his way to Budapest and tracks Lola down in a prostitution house where he confronts her (and his own feelings) in a chilling choreographed climax.

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Nick Leeson was an ordinary guy. Young, underprivileged, smarter than average. He just wanted to be rich and famous. In 1995, he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, making sensational headlines around the world and rocking the ancient foundations of the City of London. Posted to the Singapore office of Barings, Leeson's desperate attempts to cover up his out-of-control trading losses managed to destroy a banking institution which had flourished for 300 years. Single-handedly, the Rogue Trader caused one of the greatest financial disasters in history.

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Herbie, an American from Oklahoma, nearly gets run over in a London street on his first day here. He is saved by a city kid, Ben, who then spends the day with him ,showing him London. In the evening they go to a pub and by coincidence they meet Katie, who was their waitress earlier in the day, at a greasy spoon. Ben fancies Katie but is too shy - can Herbie help Ben get his girl?

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Mike is a single, talented but broke composer in his thirties. All he really wants is a beautiful sensitive woman. All he has is a list of failed relationships big enough to fill a concert hall. All he's got to offer are re-heated take-aways, unpaid bills and a damp bed. Tony, his struggling artist friend, has similar problems. His relationship with Moira has been on and off more times than a light switch.





Moira believes Mike's failures are due to his insecurity. It's true, he does have a tendency to get jealous even when a girlfriend shows more attention to his cat. Moira's theory is that his insecurity stems from his childhood and the fact that his mother left home when he was very young.





Mike's father is a raving alcoholic and a frustrated writer. He doesn't concern himself with the latter of these two passions because he believes that all writing today is second rate, contrived and written by sober wimps. He feels the only way he'll ever be able to write again is if he finds Mike's mother.





When a clairvoyant tells Mike he'll cure his feelings of insecurity by talking to his mother, Mike joins his father in the hunt for her. Mike's father tells him that there's only one thing that makes life worth living - 'the empress'. The definition of 'the empress' is perfect sex that goes on for days with a woman so beautiful you could cry. Does she exist? She's as elusive as alcohol in Abu-Dhabi. And anyway, for Mike, 'the empress' is love that lasts forever and not sex that lasts for days.





In his search for the perfect partner, Mike explores the party circuit and singles scene and falls in and out of relationships. In the meantime, his biological clock is ticking away as he has to come to terms with his lack of confidence, meeting his mother again and drunken panic attacks. The question on Mike's lips is a universal one: does true love exist, and if so, does anyone have its number?