Projects

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A time portal in the sands brings a young couple together.

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Takako Shirawa has spent the last 36 years creating an extraordinary day centre for autistic people in Abeno, Osaka. Nestling on a quiet neighbourhood corner, Atelier Corners began life as a family run sanctuary for local autistic children and has developed into a pioneering site of artistic experiment with its members becoming renowned artists, exhibited in Japan and worldwide. Award winning artist and filmmaker Richard Butchins (himself disabled) visited the centre with disabled dancer Kazuyo Morita and spent two years documenting and creating an award winning video installation about the artists and their home. This film shows the artists, the art and the woman that made it possible. It’s a testament to integration and the remarkable minds of the people that inhabit the building that is Atelier Corners. The film is part documentary and part artists’ moving image, a reflective and thoughtful account exploring the experience of disability in Japan, what is positive in the act of creation and the struggle against social exclusion, and how to foster and nurture the spirit of human life in a country that has traditionally excluded and hidden its disabled population from view.

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Desperately building against the inevitability of time, a restless young woman is awaiting another upcoming loss. But maybe more important things never seem to be told.

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England. The present day. After a job goes bad, six armed robbers must spend a single night at a deserted safe house. But during their stay malevolent apparitions appear and the men find themselves fighting for their lives and their sanity. What is real and what is the product of their tormented minds? Haunted by their past misdemeanours, mutual distrust and by things that go bump in the night the men start to lose their fragile grip on reality. But is it guilt or ghosts that finally push them over the edge? And who - or what - will step out of the front door the next day? THE WORLD WE KNEW is a modern Film Noir with an existential twist – think RESERVOIR DOGS shot by Jean-Pierre Melville.

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One kilometre underneath the North Yorkshire coast, salt miners and research scientists work side by side at the edge of the biosphere. A young woman finds a new future in the darkness of this extreme environment.

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Bella, a struggling disabled actor, takes on her most challenging role teaching an up and coming Hollywood A-lister how to "act disabled". Struggling with the line between reality and fantasy she begins to question the world around her.

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A snapshot of an edgeland, Tilbury in Essex, during the months leading to the Brexit deadline in March 2019. The film moves back and forth between the individual, human-scale portraits of migration and the representation of the town’s economic activity.

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Built from conversations with trans feminine people around the world, particularly the UK, Indonesia and Canada, the film documents We Dig, a threatre performance which centres around the actual excavation of a giant hole - a literal representation of a queer community needing to bury itself for protection.

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A double portrait of two women whose lives have been shaped by a shared passion for homemaking and hospitality. Over the course of the film we see Rosemary and Nancy in their cottage in Yorkshire, where they have settled in retirement. We hear them speak about the project they embarked on together, which saw them shelter and re-house over five hundred families in Massachusetts over a thirty year period, as well as providing a personal and historical context to their story.

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WHAT DOES WATER TASTE LIKE? questions the production of identity as it relates to the filmmaker's personal affiliations as a British-Nigerian. Prompted by intimate conversations, the film conjoins footage and voices of the past with their counterparts in the present-tense.

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A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumoured to transform into wolves by night. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2020 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020

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A tribe of cats called the Jellicles who must decide yearly which one of them will ascend to the 'Heaviside Layer' and come back to a new Jellicle life. Feature adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hugely successful T.S. Eliot-inspired musical 'Cats'