Projects

Synopsis

The turbulent life of first world war poet, Siegfried Sassoon, through the eyes of the revered filmmaker Terence Davies.
Sassoon was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the first world war and was decorated for his bravery but who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired by his experiences on the Western Front and he became one of the leading war poets of the era.
Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of war, he made his life’s journey a quest for salvation, trying to find it within the conformity of marriage and religion. His story is one of a troubled man in a fractured world searching for peace and self acceptance, something which speaks as meaningfully to the modern world as it did then.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Special Presentation

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Best friends Scarlett and Freya are practically inseparable but when Scarlett breaks her ankle and Freya starts struggling with her mental health, the difference in how they're treated starts to change this.

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Ray’s estate is being bulldozed. On the way to fireworks night, Ray and her daughter take a detour through the new development that is being built in its place.

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When gallery director Ruth is accused of using her position to exploit people of colour, she protests her innocence - but her doubt turns to paranoia when anonymous portrait Canvas 5 starts to exert a power of its own.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022 - Winner, Norman McLaren Award for Best British Short Film

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A young woman with terminal cancer embarks on a series of fake charity challenges but her new lust for life is cut short when she’s arrested for fraud.

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This short experimental video, in black and white and colour, explores chalk from landscape to language referencing history, nationhood, tradition and mysticism.

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A humorous, effervescent historiography in which a mythological baby, a nail salon, and cinematic portraits combine to show both timely and atemporal tales of gender non-conformity.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021
Official Selection Inside Out Film Festival 2022

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DELPHYNE (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are told through a fabric-themed metaphor, and the conflict between a mother-daughter relationship. The script is stylised in a theatrical form, taking the works of Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as a background and filmed in rural Suffolk. The tone draws on Petrushevskaya’s depictions of intense female-driven, claustrophobic family relationships particularly between generations of women who pull at each other in close quarters. Both a folk and fairy-tale element exists to the progress of the film, relating to the directors own heritage. The film is shot in East Anglia, Suffolk.

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Two elderly brothers live together on a small farm in Forest Coal Pit. This super 8mm portrait explores the mundanity, vibrancy and intimacy of their relationship and hyperlocal world. As they feed their livestock, tend to their garden, the brothers discuss elephants in China, lobster fisherman, ghosts and each other.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021
Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2022

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In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Official Selection CAMERIMAGE - International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection Cannes Cinéfondation - La Cinef 2022

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You know, I’ve got to the age where I want to settle down and stop jumping from relationship to relationship every few weeks, but everyone I meet is so immature which I thought wouldn’t be the case now. Know what I mean? What do you do for a job? Ah no way! I love animation! That’s so interesting! Anything I’ve seen? I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be an animator! Bet it’s so fun. I think Pixar is my favourite, that film with the cars is just so damn funny! And Shrek! I almost forget that’s animation, just amazing how people come up with this stuff and make those characters so believable! Is that the sort of stuff you do? Can I see?
Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2022

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HOSTILE is a feature-length documentary focusing on the impact of the evolving 'hostile environment' policies, which are designed to make living conditions so difficult for migrants that they voluntarily leave the country.