Projects with status: Complete

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Sam and Tusker are partners of 20 years, who are travelling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia two years before, their time together is the most important thing they have.
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020 - Competition - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020

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Documentary focusing on Irish musician and The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, featuring animation, unseen footage from director Julien Temple’s own archives and contributions from collaborators, artists and MacGowan’s family. The film culminates with MacGowan's 60th birthday celebration, populated by musicians and film stars.
Artist Ralph Steadman, known for his collaborations with writer Hunter S. Thompson, provides original artwork which animator Jonny Halifax brings to life.
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020 - Competition - World premiere
Special Jury Prize, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020

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Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'

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In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
Both a heartfelt love-story and an examination of gender, class and society, 'Ammonite' brings to life in vivid detail the life of a woman unappreciated in her own time. A pioneering paleontologist and passionate fossil collector, Anning’s findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking around the prehistory of the Earth and saw her named as one of the most influential women in British scientific history by the Royal Society after her death.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020 - Closing Night Gala

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A boyfriend is blamed for the overdose of his girlfriend during her birthday party.

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Following a black-market medic who carries out illegal operations for the criminal underworld. When she gives refuge to a young girl, she must choose between breaking her medical oath or crossing her ruthless employers.

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Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'

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Rhea is the primary carer for her father Martin who self medicates with cannabis; the only remedy he's found effective to offset his pain. When school bullies find out that Martin's medicine is home-grown, Rhea quickly learns that sharing is not always caring.

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Oscar-nominee Rosamund Pike plays Marla Grayson, a highly successful legal guardian with a knack for using the law to her benefit and her elderly clients’ detriment, living a life of luxury at their expense. But when her seemingly innocent next victim turns out to have dangerous secrets, Marla must use every ounce of her wit and cunning to stay alive in this wry, cutting and wholly original thriller.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2020 - Gala Presentation World Premiere

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Musician, model and rock monster Dave Doughman and his band Swearing At Motorists have a unique reputation on Hamburg's alternative music scene. IT'S NOT ALL ROCK AND ROLL is about being a musical troubadour in the modern world.

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The anthropologist Ger Duijzings reads his diary from wartime Yugoslavia (1992) while walking the streets of London. His diary entries are echoed and confronted by images of London. The film was shot with seven cameras in real-time and a single continuous take.

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An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather's oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020
TCM Youth Award, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2020