Projects with status: Complete

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Bill and Deb struggle to see eye to eye as their last-ditch camping trip takes a sinister turn, in this hilariously bizarre animation.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Shorts - Weird and Wonderful World

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A surreal, comedy-noir about waking up to life: When Lily, a disconnected, neurotic, ‘wellness'-freak, has a brush with death, she comes face-to-face with her greatest fear. But Death appears to Lily as a femme fatale and Lily finds herself unexpectedly giddy with desire...
Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQI+ Film Festival 2021 - World premiere

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An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.

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THE FEAST is told over the course of one evening as a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. The guests are a local business man and a neighbouring farmer and the intent is to secure a business deal to mine in the surrounding countryside. When a mysterious young woman arrives to be their waitress for the evening, the family’s beliefs and values are challenged as her quiet yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives. Slowly, deliberately and with the most terrifying consequences.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - First Feature Competition

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Based on examples of cultural production in times of ideological crisis and employing allegory and architecture, here is a competition for a gift that could heal a divided nation.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - Memorials of Meaning

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A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021 - In Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021

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Captured by the U.S. Government, Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim) languishes in prison for years without charge or trial. Losing all hope, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and her associate Teri Duncan (Shailene Woodley). Together they face countless obstacles in a desperate pursuit for justice. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by formidable military prosecutor, Lt. Colonel Stuart Couch (Benedict Cumberbatch), eventually reveals a shocking and far reaching conspiracy. Based on the New York Times best-selling memoir, this is the explosive true story of a fight for survival against all odds.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2021 - Berlinale Special

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Horror-comedy short based on an improbable pub tale from the North East of England. A man walking home from his local one night is tormented by a terrifying sound: The Nicky Nack. Starring Alun Armstrong.

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From the award-winning creative team behind Notes On Blindness and Listen To Me, Marlon comes a contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure. In an innovative blend of newly-unearthed audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and personal archive, the film traces Charlie Chaplin’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom, before his scandalous fall from grace.
Refracting his life through a kaleidoscope of previously unheard voices and perspectives, the film sheds new light on the many sides of a groundbreaking, controversial and visionary artist. For decades he was the most famous man in the world but who was The Real Charlie Chaplin?
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Create

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Head Gamekeeper Abel discovers the thing that is eating his grouse. His blunt and violent response brings the menace back home shattering his already crumbling relationship with his wife.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2021
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival London 2021

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How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past as she explores subjectivity, trauma, family dynamics and the stories we tell ourselves.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Journey - World premiere

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Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female African American artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superstardom is an undeniable story of triumph over adversity. It's the ultimate story of survival - and an inspirational story for our times.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2021 - Berlinale Special