Projects with status: Complete

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Walton, North Liverpool. An area severely effected by austerity and home to the safest Labour seat in the country. Filmed over three-years by filmmakers who hail from the area, MANIFESTO is a first-hand account of grass-root community activism, depicting the work and effort that goes into party politics away from Westminster. National topics - the NHS, education, the environment, worker’s rights, Brexit, internal selections and the 2019 General Election - monumental issues across society, are discussed and debated as Walton Constituency Labour Party campaign for change through Labour’s ‘For The Many’ manifesto.

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This story is about a 5-year-old deaf and dumb girl Sara and her family situation; how her brother gets kidnapped and how she helps UK police with some clues to find the kidnapper.

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As the United Kingdom is brought to its knees by COVID and Brexit, a working-class English teacher, lost in redundancy, poverty and alcohol in Manchester, takes us on a poetic and powerful journey through Broken Britain: as an abused boy under Margaret Thatcher in 1984, as a deranged student under John Major in 1992 and as a haunted man under Boris Johnson in 2020.

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In a café in Marseille, a man's life begins to unravel when his lunch is disturbed by a chatty stranger.

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Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his condition deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to this predicament, before he’s lost forever. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - Critics' Week Special Screening - World premiere Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022

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A boy finds love amongst the chaos of the city. As an older man, he makes peace with the beast, letting go of the chaos and anger.

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The unlikely story of a Glaswegian visual artist, Stephen Skrynka, and his dangerous life-long obsession with riding the ‘Wall of Death’. Stephen dreams of transforming the traditional fairground motorbike attraction into an art form, but underestimates the difficulties of combing his artistic vision with the commercial instincts of his collaborators. Alone, with no finance and a pandemic raging, Stephen rashly decides to hand-build his own Wall out of recycled wood. Facing a crisis of money and self-belief, salvation arrives in the shape of unexpected comradeship, anonymous donations and the kindness of strangers. Stephen builds his Wall. But can he ride it?

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Dakin, Cade, and Joel are three criminals who receive their next job. Instead of doing it, they argue over every detail, constantly arguing about their worth to the group while referring to past jobs.

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The inspirational true story of Mercedes Gleitze, who in 1927 became the first British woman to swim the English Channel. VINDICATION SWIM depicts Mercedes’ upstream struggle in overcoming both the cold waters of the English Channel and the oppressive society of 1920s England. However, after a rival comes forward claiming to have accomplished the same feat, Mercedes is forced into battle to retain her record and her legacy.

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Will, a frustrated animator, records a message to his mother. He explains “confessionally” that the film he was trying to make with his collaborator, Ainslie Henderson, failed. It was a film that they were making about her, after she contracted mouth cancer 5 years ago. He explains the purpose of him talking to her now, in a candid way about it, might just be the final closure his Mum and family need. Why did he invent an imaginary cat called DOM who exists only on his computer and begins to get in the way? Needing to move on, the film they shot and animated will now explain what they were trying to do. The film plays out from Will’s perspective today, a composition of thoughts, images and scenes - reflecting and editing together a letter to his mother. A self-reflective and self-referential film that blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction. This video message or ‘letter’ to her is a device that guides the film’s narrative. As if being ‘live edited’ the film has a playful urgency, enabling the viewer to authentically experience the journey with Will and the other characters.

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Shawn specialises in awkward sex scenes and awkward sex scenes only. When she receives a call from her former mentor, Fiona, Shawn is overjoyed at the opportunity to prove her skills and the worth of her style on set. Official Selection PÖFF Shorts - Black Nights Film Festival 2022

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This work imagines the female body as a part of nature, blurring the boundary between human body and landscape. It explores the subjectivity of the female-born body and its connection to the nature. Emphasising the idea that humans perceive nature through their bodies, the work suggests that true understanding comes through immersion and embodied experience.