Projects with status: Complete

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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.

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

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Socially awkward and environmentally conscious teenager, AJ, has a few things on her mind. Mostly how the methane from all the cows is destroying the planet, and how she would rather be anywhere in the world than on holiday with her painfully normal family. On discovering that there’s no Wi-Fi, AJ is determined to have the worst week of her life, but her plan comes unstuck when she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine-smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla. In this charming coming of age tale, AJ falls in love for the first time, and back in love with her own family. Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2021 - Audience Award Winner

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Fragments of hundreds of films from around the world draw together an ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive. Together, they contend with a fragile existence lived solely through the traces of their work. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - World premiere

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Sat backstage for the biggest audition of his life, Matty sticks out like a sore thumb. Surrounded by violins, clarinets and flutes, his love of drumming is a far cry from the musical elite. And there’s one other thing... Everyone’s voices have been swapped with their instruments.

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An aesthetically invigorating reworking of the casting process of Sidney Franklin’s The Good Earth (1937), a film notorious for a white actor’s racist portrayal of a Chinese character. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta

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A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2021 - Encounters

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A boat navigates a tumultuous sea of mushrooms whilst searching for its lost sister ship. Official Selection Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 2022

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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