Projects

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As Italy lurches to the far right, a Malian finds a place amongst a family of charcoal burners in the remote Calabrian mountains. Official Selection AFI Fest 2023

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Before their 17th Birthdays, two black boys attempt to bury contraband in order to save their cultural identity from being erased by the UK government, however, they unearth new truths that test their friendship. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival London 2023

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The film features a group of women who reside in a care home in a small market town of Sefrou, Morocco. HER PLOT OF BLUE SKY is a record of one of the days in which the Amazigh women inhabitants of the care home were seen using the cameras. The images they create - of themselves and others - are playful yet harrowing, they point to the invisibility of women, non-hetero normative, neurodiverse, functionally diverse and elderly people in media more general. Woven into the women's narratives is Rachida Madani’s poem, Tales of a Severed Head.

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A woman struggles with the pressures of motherhood and uses a childish game at a local baby group to vent her fury, sparking an unexpected chain reaction. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 - International Competition

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Oscar Walden is having a bad day... a rough 'life' patch. Unable to cope with his imploding family life, Oscar Walden (Tim Plester - Andor, After-Life) arrives on a call out as a volunteer Appropriate Adult. Here, Oscar crosses paths with troubled teenage detainee, Jordan Tempest (Francesco Piacentini-Smith - Waterloo Road, I Swear), who, despite Oscar's vain attempts to connect with Jordan and help him through his arrest, is soon running circles around him. Off kilter and with emotions running high, can Oscar find a way to get through to Jordan or is it futile?

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A young single mum, Emilia, invites Sophia, the upper-class student who drove her daughter to suicide, to her place.

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The installation triptych employs AI-imagery to explore themes of desire and the expanding gap between real experience and artificial representations in the digital age. The interactive experience consists of three related works that use AI to augment, subvert, and negate the iconic image of the Hollywood kiss. Using a queer lens to appropriate a classic Hollywood aesthetic, the work places AI within the history of image-production technologies meant to incite and homogenize our desires. In the process, it reveals the nature of AI imagery and hints at how our most intimate desires will continue to be stretched and shaped by artificial representations at an accelerating pace. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2020 - XR Experience Special Event- International premiere

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World War II, 1945 - While fighting on the battlefield in Albania, Sante, a young Italian partisan, is captured and imprisoned in the Maliq prison camp near the Devoll River. The memory of his love for Elsa is what keeps him alive.

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Lumbu, which means “tall one” in Punjabi, reckons with his father's secret affair in a bid to save his family. Set in the Summer of '94, in Sandwell, West Midlands.

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A quick-witted short, that explores hook-up culture amongst Black-British men in Birmingham, England. Lucas, a computer techie goes on an ordeal when he invites Theo around for what he thought would be no strings attached fun, but it takes an odd turn. Official Selection Chicago International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Meet Special K, Peanut, Charlie, and the rest of The Brentford Penguins, a soccer team with a difference: all the young players have Down’s Syndrome. MIGHTY PENGUINS follows Coach Allan, the players, and families as they prepare to be the guard of honour for a Premier League match. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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An intensely intimate documentary about the extraordinary life and death of one of Britain’s most controversial photographers, Lanre Fehintola. Lanre took the idea of immersive photography to another level, applying the method approach to his journalistic research. From homelessness to heroin addiction, even drug dealing, Lanre completely embodied his subject, becoming a character in his own story, often to his detriment. Together with his close friend, filmmaker Leo Regan, the pair have documented Lanre’s remarkable journey over thirty years. My Friend Lanre follows Lanre as he faces his ultimate adventure, his own terminal illness. Unsurprisingly, he embraces the challenge with characteristic fearlessness, candour and humour. The documentary is deeply moving, funny and heart-breaking. A celebration of living and dying. A hymn to the soul. Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2023 - World premiere