Projects matching: Kevin Macdonald

Synopsis

Spanning Ayrton Senna's years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, the film will explore the life and work of the triple world champion, his physical and spiritual achievements on the track, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he has since attained.

Synopsis

Life In A Day is a historical global event to create the first user generated feature film documenting a single day on Earth. From Academy Award winning director Kevin MacDonald and producer Ridley Scott.

Synopsis

A look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as 'The Butcher of Lyon'. Klaus was a Nazi torturer, American spy and tool of repressive right-wing regimes. His story is symbolic of the real relationship that Western governments had with fascism, and reflects the world as it is today - and the politicians that inhabit it - in a very different way.

Synopsis

In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin’s savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.

Synopsis

Touching The Void is based on the international best seller by renowned climber Joe Simpson, which describes one of the most extraordinary true stories of survival and adventure of our time. The book recounts a climb Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, undertook in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. The two young and ambitious mountaineers set off to scale the hitherto unclimbed west face of Siula Grande, a remote and treacherous 21,000ft peak.
 
Starting the descent through a blizzard, Simpson fell, shattering his leg. An heroic battle for survival unfolded in which both men were faced with life or death decisions which test the human spirit to its limit. Simpson and Yates returned to Siula Grande together for the first time to retell their story for the camera.