Projects matching: Jones

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'Treehugger: Wawona' the latest virtual reality installation from Marshmallow Laser Feast, reveals the secret life of the giant sequoia and never-before-seen inner workings of the world’s largest tree. Treehugger uniquely illustrates the sequoia’s immense scale and questions our relationship with the natural world at a time of crisis and change.

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Twenty-something sisters Kate and Lisa are gorgeous, fun loving and ready for the holiday of a lifetime in Mexico. When the opportunity to go cage diving to view Great White sharks presents itself, thrill-seeking Kate jumps at the chance while Lisa takes some convincing. After some not so gentle persuading, Lisa finally agrees and the girls soon find themselves two hours off the coast of Huatulco and about to come face to face with nature's fiercest predator. But what should have been the trip to end all trips soon becomes a living nightmare when the shark cage breaks free from their boat, sinks and they find themselves trapped at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left in their tanks, they must somehow work out how to get back to the boat above them through 47 metres of shark-infested waters.

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The continuing adventures of British publishing executive Bridget Jones as she enters her 40s... Bridget Jones finds herself unexpectedly expecting.
The third film instalment of Ms Bridget Jones's story, based this time on novelist Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones newspaper column stories.

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Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series 'Black Mirror' taps into the collective unease within the modern world. Each stand-alone episode a sharp and suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia.
Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone — a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us.
TIFF presents two episodes from the forthcoming third season of Black Mirror: San Junipero and Nosedive
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Primetime - World premiere

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A triumphant epic of survival set in the searing wilds of the Badlands, the menacing inferno of the old American West. A tale of powerful womanhood and resistance against the unforgiving cruelty of a hell on earth.
Liz is formed by the beautiful wilderness, full of heart and grit, accused of a crime she didn’t commit, hunted by the vengeful Preacher – a diabolical zealot. But Liz is a genuine survivor; a woman of fearsome strength who responds with astonishing bravery to claim the better life she and her daughter deserve.
Fear not. Retribution is coming.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Official Competition

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The third and final instalment in Noel Clarke's urban trilogy, that also includes Kidulthood (2006) and Adulthood (2008). A gritty tale of an ex-con whose dreams of settling down and going straight run up against the long memories (and itchy trigger fingers) of a crew of old enemies.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Special Presentations

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Trapped in a loveless marriage of convenience, a headstrong young woman decides to create her own destiny...
Rural England, 1865. Katherine (Florence Pugh) is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family is cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband’s estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
A unique period drama adapted from Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 Russian novella 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - Spotlight programme

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'B&B' tells the story of gay Londoners Mike and Fred who plan a weekend of mischief, returning to bait the prosecuted Christian owner of a remote guesthouse which provides bed and breakfast - B&B.
The year before they had successfully sued the owner for not allowing them to share a bed. Events take a deadly turn when another guest arrives, who they think might have something more sinister in mind. Their weekend of fun turns into a bloody battle for survival in this whip smart, brutally funny and dark thriller.

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Wayward pop star turned film composer Sir Peter Pilger faces the challenge of his life: To deliver a Requiem for his former college St Jude’s in time for the Memorial Celebrations while facing down revelations about his past and living up to his new authority as High Master.
Freighted in to lead his struggling alma mater through the rising tides of university fees, student unrest and political correctness, he neglects his hypochondriac wife and ungovernable teenage kids to turn upside down the institution he is meant to rescue.
But it is not from his misspent youth as an undergraduate at St Jude’s and not from the modern student body that his biggest trial emerges, but from the kitchens, where a time bomb ticks amongst the migrant college staff in the dazzling cellist Anastasiya, who remembers more about him than he does.
His Requiem lays nothing to rest. Not his libido. Not even his conscience.

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Two women with opposing ideas on what is 'Public' and what is 'Private' lose their shit in very different ways.

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Elias is a 'fallen angel' given a second, pathetic life, after dying young from an accidental overdose. Forced by higher powers to work as a 'cupid' on Earth, he is forbidden from pursuing love himself, namely Mary, his true love. He decides to finally end his cruel existence and, ultimately, his heartbreak.

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A single-mum family are driven to extreme behaviour when they are evicted from the house they live in illegally and replaced with second-generation immigrants.