Projects

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Set in Manchester’s notorious Moss Side, a single mother’s 40th birthday party ends in disaster when her lover unexpectedly arrives and clashes with her overprotective son.

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The documentary follows Joey (the titular Busking Joe), as he travels the UK drumming outside of music events in order to save up to buy a tour van and live on the road. Now on the last leg of his quest, he relentlessly travels coast to coast, across the northern borders of the UK, with his end-goal at arms length. All the while, among the ups and downs of the journey, we begin to learn more about the man behind the drum kit.

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A high-stakes game of chance takes a deadly turn when five players from different walks of life decide to risk everything.

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When a young married professional quits his job to pursue a career in photography, he gradually reveals the emptiness of his relationship with his wife as he begins to deeply connect with a German student. Inspired by the films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, COFFEE IN WINTER is a slow-paced poetic drama that subtly unearths issues with the marriage and status culture in British Indian society.

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The repeated rituals of an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) online performer and her viewers.

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Musa, an illegal immigrant and refugee, living and working on a UK car wash, takes on an underground driving job, with an unknown cargo, in order to gain freedom from his criminal employers - Doggerland.

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What even is a male? Why can't I wear a dress? F**k it. Let's have sex and worry about it later. Transgender Blake and cisgender Cane hang out, play video games and grapple with their insecurities. This is their love story.

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Falling in love is hard in this powerful adaptation of Neil Hilborn's poem OCD. BAFTA Film Awards 2021 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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In 2015 and 2016 the so-called 'migrant crisis' broke within Europe. The consequences are still unfolding today. But what actually happened during those fateful and chaotic months? Shot at five locations on the overland route through Europe, FLIGHT revisits a founding event of our era. Eschewing polemic and hyperbole, the film weaves its music of images to the soaring maqaams of Iraqi saxophonist Amar Alaw, in search of something both more intimate and more universal. Forget about the rhetoric and the headlines. Shorn of subtitles, explanations and commentary, what you will witness in this film you will recognise for yourself, because it is the most basic dream and desperation common to all humanity: to journey on, to survive adversity. To strive for better things.

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In the wake of her parents’ separation, 10-year-old Grace spends a Saturday evening with her father, Joe. In the neon-lit world of the bowling alley, the takeaway and the roadside service station, father and daughter are confronted by the gulf opening up between them in the aftermath of change.

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A story of self-discovery about Ben, a British-Pakistani tourist, who travels to Granada, Spain to save his relationship with his long term girlfriend Helen who’s studying abroad. But when Ben arrives it’s too late. Heartbroken, Ben struggles to get over Helen and finds himself lost in a city full of backpackers, study-abroad-students, Moroccan immigrants and Flamenco Gypsies. It’s only when he meets a group of teenage students Oscar (Swedish), Lucas (Spanish), Silvia (Portuguese), bartender Big Dave (Tunisian) and rose-seller Bilal (Pakistani) that he starts to develop a sense of belonging and purpose. With his new foreign friends he pushes himself out of his comfort zone, immerses himself in the foreign culture and tries to find love in the international student scene. But behind every corner is a reminder of Helen and his struggle to find closure.

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Sandra (Dunne), on the surface of it, is a young Mum struggling to provide her two young daughters with a warm, safe, happy home to grow up in. Beneath the surface, Sandra has a steely determination to change their lives for the better and when it becomes clear that the local council won’t provide that home, she decides to build it herself from scratch. With very little income to speak of and no savings, Sandra must use all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality. At the same time, she must escape the grip of her possessive ex-husband and keep him away from her and her girls. The lionhearted Sandra draws together a community of friends to support her and lend a helping hand and it is the kindness and generosity of these people and the love of her young daughters that help rebuild her own strength and sense of self. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020