Projects with status: Complete

Synopsis

Follow Brogues and Sparkly Toes on their adventures of love, loss, dancing, and lots of mud! A heartbreaking LGBTQ+ tale told entirely through feet!

Synopsis

PASSING follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Journey

Synopsis

A weedy charity-shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish people cause him to miss his audition, he sets out to seek deathly revenge. It's one lunch break, five spectacular murders.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2021 - Narrative Spotlight - World premiere

Synopsis

Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain, with a rare prescience. As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, the Anglo-Somali punk musician was also a key inspiration for the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements.
But the late punk maverick didn’t just leave behind an immense cultural footprint. She was survived by a daughter, Celeste Bell, who became the unwitting guardian of her mother’s legacy and her mother’s demons. Misogyny, racism, and mental illness plagued Poly’s life, while their lasting trauma scarred Celeste’s childhood and the pair’s relationship.
Featuring unseen archive material and rare diary entries narrated by Oscar-nominee Ruth Negga, this documentary follows Celeste as she examines her mother's unopened artistic archive and traverses three continents to better understand Poly the icon and Poly the mother.
Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2021 - North American premiere

Synopsis

The first official feature documentary celebrating the incredible life of one of the most influential icons of the 20th Century, fashion designer Dame Mary Quant. Featuring contributions from Kate Moss, Vivienne Westwood, Edward Enninful, Dave Davies, Charlotte Tilbury, Jasper Conran and Zandra Rhodes as well as Mary’s family and peers.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Create - World premiere

Synopsis

REBEL DYKES is the story of how a lesbian fetish club became a beacon of freedom and community for a bunch of outsider dykes struggling as punks, sex workers, activists, musicians and artists in 1980s London.
Official Selection BFI Flare Film Festival 2021 - World premiere

Synopsis

Having participated in competition surfing since he turned 11, a 14-year-old Scottish champion Ben Larg, is not afraid of a challenge, and what bigger challenge for a young surfer than one of the biggest and most dangerous cold water waves in the world at Mullaghmore, Ireland. If he gets it right, he joins an elite group. If he gets it wrong, the consequences are terrifying. Danger, opportunity, and parental dilemma collide propelling Ben and his family towards an unknown destiny.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Love

Synopsis

Reclusive widower Roy (BAFTA Winner David Bradley) passes the days by cold calling strangers from the phone book, looking for brief moments of companionship. But when he accidentally calls adult hotline worker Cara (Oscar Winner Rachel Shenton), an unlikely friendship is born.

Synopsis

The film explores the story of Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige) who after a double mastectomy, goes to a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi (Kota Eberhardt). She discovers that the process of such surgery opens up questions about her very existence, leading her to start to question and confront past traumas. The two develop an unlikely bond as mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult

Synopsis

A sofa surfer roams the streets while making phone calls to find somewhere to crash for the night. As everybody turns him down, there is a name he hesitates to call. Carl, an old buddy, welcomes him into his rundown apartment, only to tempt him back into a past addiction.

Synopsis

SOFT RIO plays between erotic and erratic productions of layered movement and sound. Inspired by Audre Lorde's 1978 essay "Uses of the Erotic", the film was shot on the stage of the Rio Cinema in London (once a striptease stage) featuring dancer Astrid Sweeney and sound by @xcrswx.

Synopsis

A filmmaker tries to communicate with the sheep now living where his parents were buried fifteen years ago.
Official Selection IndieLisboa Film Festival 2022