Projects

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When a reclusive woman falls in love, it’s easy to fall with her in this tender and sensual story of shocking self-discovery. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand BAFTA Film Awards 2020 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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Dave struggles to keep his Tourette’s on the down-low while on a date with Jess. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

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Beginning in Vienna where the filmmaker meets her father, David, whom she hasn’t seen since she was two. Through a mixture of onscreen text, sit down interviews and archival footage, David’s early life as a teenage activist in Northern Ireland is revealed. The film then travels to Belfast and segues into an impossible reconstruction of David’s early years. In and attempt to better know him, Garnett uses previously recorded audio interviews to skillfully craft a lip-synced, cross-gender performance where she impersonates the his youthful presence and casts a transgender actress in the role of his girlfriend. The film cycles through various camera modes – narrative vignettes on RED alongside handheld camcorder footage of contemporary Belfast street life mixed with these verbatim re-enactments – to create a fragmented account of a teenager struggling to find an identity in a rapidly deteriorating society, and the parallel struggle of a filmmaker to connect with her estranged father. The layers of texture in this film mirror the fractured lens of history, and point to the impossibility of filmmaking as a container for 'Truth'. In TROUBLE, cinema is a means of rebuilding family ties of highlighting the complexities of representation and the construction of identity. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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The Withnail generation had children... and Owen is one of them. His memories of his wild childhood weave a spell on him – or was it the acid he accidentally took as a child? Weaving her spell too is his mother, the free-spirited Marianne. She is supposed to be on her deathbed – but she's not going quietly. The family gather at their crumbling farmhouse for her last birthday. Among the stones and the animals, they prepare for battle. Owen struggles to free himself from Marianne's web and win back his ex-partner Caroline. Along the way he must reckon with uncles, babies, brothers, sisters, children and dads. Love, pain, laughter, wine – and mushrooms. Everyone in this family longs to be free. Their quests play out like a game of hide and seek in the old house – a curiously timeless space full of secrets rich and strange. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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Beth, a fifteen-year-old white girl, is seemingly lost. Over the course of an evening on the streets of East London, her interactions with the city's dwellers take darker turns. Terror appears to lie around every corner. But Beth is the real monster lurking within our city. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Cult Strand - World premiere

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Exploring how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, when a group of artists united to take on the National Front, armed only with a fanzine and a love of music. Developed from Rubika Shah's short film WHITE RIOT: LONDON (Sundance 2017, Berlin 2017). Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Competition - World premiere Winner Grierson Award for Best Documentary, BFI London Film Festival 2019 Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Generation 14plus - International premiere

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A paranormal thriller based on the events that took place back in 1991. Jack and 2 friends set out to try and capture the paranormal events that took place in his home shortly after his 13th Birthday. What they witnessed and recorded was truly terrifying and is known as one of the most authentic paranormal evidence ever caught on camera, today known as the Barmby Place Ghost. These events continued until 1997, when the activity suddenly stopped - Until now...22 years later after the events Jack now has a family of his own and his son Harry has just turned 13 years old and it looks like the family curse continues.

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A heartless and cruel drug dealer is forced to see the hurt he's causing. He refuses to change until it is too late, but is it ever too late?

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In her mid-20s, Angie is interviewed as she tries to understand how and why her brother David committed dark and terrible deeds, which led to him being sectioned.

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Chuck Berry was the absolute instigator of Rock and Roll. Despite his iconic status, and reverence for his talent by rock’s heroes including: John Lennon; Bruce Springsteen; Keith Richards; Steve Van Zandt; Joe Perry; Alice Cooper; Berry was a family man. He was a prolific craftsman of word and chords, an undisputed and stunning combination of talent and charisma. Award-winning Director and Producer Jon Brewer ('BB KING: THE LIFE OF RILEY, 'NAT KING COLE: AFRAID OF THE DARK), was personally selected by the Berry Estate to produce and direct this exclusive insight to the man known as the bedrock of Rock and Roll. Official Selection Nashville Film Festival 2019

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Great Britain voted to leave the EU. While euphoria and disappointment are mixed among in the population, William goes to visit his parents and discuss about the results of Brexit with his father. Their opposite vision will open old wounds never healed showing that love could be hidden in unexpected choices.

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A forensic documentary telling the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh. Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2019 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Competition - International premiere