Projects with status: Complete

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A submergence into the vivid realities of three Transgender sex workers living in Cape Town, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Official Selection Hamptons International Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022

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Framed through a letter to the Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, RESISTERS is a celebration of Berlin's 100 years of resistance to fascism and a call to action against nationalism. Taking a two-fold journey through Berlin, a geographical one and a psychic one, Daniels Jewish flaneuse reflects on Berlin's turbulent history of revolution and resistance to fascism, and the dangerous growth of the nationalist AfD who became the main opposition party in the German parliament in 2017. Resisters follows the activities of the Omas Gegen Rechts (Grandmothers against the Right) who organise to fight the nationalist AfD which in 2017 became the strongest opposition party in the German Parliament. In poetic vignettes Daniels' voice, over slow-motion shots of streets and parks recounts the stories of resisters to fascism before and during the Third Reich. The fictionalised re-imagining of herself as witness to resistance brings into the light what may be still repressed and hidden.

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A concerned young woman moves home to look after her ailing grandmother and soon finds herself fighting a malevolent presence with a dark secret.

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A modern realisation of Edward Lear’s haunting poem.

The Dong falls in love with a Jumbly girl when she arrives on the empty shore. But the Jumblies sail on and the Dong is driven beyond sense by a refusal to abandon a dream.

Shot before and during lockdown at Dungeness and narrated by Tilda Swinton the poem is newly minted and relevant with all its poignant beauty in tact.

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In 2051, a charismatic but lonely mechanic invites us into his garage and talks us through the ups and downs of the past 30 years. It didn't go the way you would have expected.

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A moving-image collaboration between the two artists. Unfolding from the creators’ perspectives in the Somali diaspora, the piece takes the lead from East African mythos and Islamic imagery to explore mythmaking, Blackness; a ‘generation of ghosts’ and the transient spirit.
Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2022

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Successful author Jonathan Stack has been so obsessed with trying to pen his hit novel that he’s let his marriage to Samantha, also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she’s leaving him for her business partner Luke, a hapless control freak who has loved Sam forever.

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Using experimental animation to explore migration that triggered 400 years of emigration from Britain between 1620-2020 - a single footprint rapidly escalates into patterns of human travel in the form of ‘abstract lines’ within the natural world to evoke meaning; suggesting epic voyages and connected narratives over long histories.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2021 - Research in Film Awards for Best Animated Film of the Year (RIFA) - Winner
British Animation Awards (BAA) 2022 – Wild Card Category- Winner

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'I invite you into the world of my weekly planner.'

Premiere at the 19th (2022) IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival

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Two lifelong friends on a remote Irish island find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship with alarming consequences for both of them.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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Three stop-frame animations made on the floor of my London flat using water, cardboard and home-made slime. Watermeadow, bog-eye & mudflats were made over a long period of time. The project was pulled together during successive pandemic lock-downs whilst imagining wide open marshland, swamps and mires of different kinds.

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A BANQUET is the much anticipated feature debut from Ruth Paxton. A visually arresting slowburning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family possessed by a daughter's illness when she stops eating, exploiting the strains and the love between three generations of mothers and daughters.
Widowed mother Holly (Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat, but loses no weight. In an agonising dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Discovery - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult