Projects with status: Complete

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A documentary that goes beneath the surface of our favourite films, seeking to better understand the way we view love, relationships and romance. From 'It Happened One Night' to 'Runaway Bride', from clumsy meet cutes to rain-soaked declarations of love, these films reflect our experiences but are often just as problematic as they are comforting.
They're hugely successful and deeply loved by many, but - being frequently dismissed as guilty pleasures - they have often avoided critical analysis. Helped by a diverse chorus of critics, actors and filmmakers, and with original songs by her band Summer Camp, director Elizabeth Sankey embarks on a journey of investigation and self-discovery.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere
Official Selection SXSW 2019

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A journey of relationships between women.
When society refuses to hear them, the Birangona, heroines of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh, hold closely to tell their stories to each other and the next generation to understand their identity. To never forget how as women they have refused to be diminished as they have tried to heal and overcome the ravages of conflict, violence and prejudice. To create the future with the power of unconditional love.

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The story of the sacred youth and the stakes of a cosmic journey. Where the embodiment and the pain, pleasure and sublimation there-in are non-negotiable.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - US Narrative Short Films - World premiere

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This is the amazing story of how the Berkeley police department, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, an Academy Award winner and Mr. Spock are all connected by "Sudden Birth", one of the most unintentionally hilarious and disturbing educational films ever created. In colour.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - International Documentary Short Film Programme

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The Royal Shakespeare Company explores the future of theatre with Magic Leap in this sublime production of the "Seven Ages of Man" speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Here they present a mixed reality experience using cutting-edge volumetric capture with Shakespearean actor Robert Gilbert and an original musical score by award-winning composer Jessica Curry. The line “all the world’s a stage” turns literal as users experience the play in multiple and simultaneous places.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - New Frontiers Exhibitions - World premiere

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Merseyside is a troubled place for most men (of a certain age). The exception is one Buster Brown. Women just adore him.
The unhappy men need to banish Buster from the region - Enter - 4 Gits And a Guitar - They’ll run him out of town! Or will they? So let the fun begin.

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During the Battle of Waterloo, soldier's wife Ellen searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and resorts to desperate measures to survive.

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When Annabelle wakes up in a strange bedroom on her 30th birthday she thinks the day cannot get any worse... but then Bernard walks in. As she pieces together the events of the night before, she finds herself making a powerful and unexpected connection.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Laugh Srand

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Every year on Midwinter's Eve the sunstone must be returned to the the Yew Tree Goddess and a sacrifice must be made or the darkness will last forever.
A one-shot short film all filmed in one take about the magic of midwinter's eve.

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Light is interrupted by a strip of old 16mm film seen under a low magnification microscope and is reflected from the surface in rainbow colours. Software simulates the film’s chemical erosion.

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Adnan, an imaginative ten-year-old Syrian boy, has fled his home country with his mother after the rest of their family were killed and their neighbourhood destroyed. Now settled in the UK, he must use all his creativity to break through his mother’s PTSD or risk losing her forever.

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In marketing and the retail sector, data analytics is widely used to profile and micro-target consumers and to predict behaviour. The ultimate goal, apparently, is for humans to be able to outsource all decision-making to machine intelligence. What is at stake within the political realm? 
Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2019 - Winner, ZONTA Award
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Create Strand