Projects

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Meet David before Bowie. He may have been one of the greatest icons in music history, but who was the young man behind the many faces? In 1971, a 24-year-old David Bowie embarks on his first road trip to America with struggling publicist Ron Oberman, only to be met with a world not yet ready for him. STARDUST offers a glimpse behind the curtain of the moments that inspired the creation of Bowie's first and most memorable alter ego Ziggy Stardust, capturing the turning point that cemented his career as one of the world's greatest cultural icons. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2020 - Spotlight Narrative - World premiere

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An investigation into the truth behind the murder of Guatemalan cleric and human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi, who was killed in 1998 just days after trying to hold the country's military accountable for the atrocities committed during its civil war. The shocking murder of Gerardi in the aftermath of the Guatemalan Civil War sets the ground for a powerful battle between justice and corruption in this political crime thriller Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2020 - Spotlight Documentary - World premiere

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Following from THE TRIP, THE TRIP TO ITALY and THE TRIP TO SPAIN, and back for their fourth cinematic travelogue, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon cinematic travelogue, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan head out together on a Greek excursion inspired by Homer’s 'The Odyssey' -and, naturally, fuelled by sharp-witted banter and the best Werner Herzog impressions imaginable. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2020 - Spotlight Narrative - World premiere

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Belfast gangsters pass a death sentence on a dog, leading the owner to offer himself to be shot instead.

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An aspiring teenage rapper from Afghanistan, finds himself stuck in Athens with a group of friends. Through music and poetry he tries to make sense of the world around him. Official Selection Aspen Shortfest 2020 - Winner Best Documentary Official Selection HotDocs 2020

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At midnight on 22nd October 2019, marriage equality rights were extended to Northern Ireland. With no sitting government in Stormont for three years, the law was passed through Westminster, much to the horror of the evangelical Christian right and their flagship political party, the DUP. Meanwhile, in a quiet corner of east Belfast, a radical theatre group was in the process of creating the world’s first ever ‘documentary opera’. Led by enigmatic artistic director Conor Mitchell, The Belfast Ensemble were taking every homophobic phrase said by DUP politicians over the past 40 years, and putting them to music, verbatim.

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In pre-Christian Ireland, a young, recently bereaved woman with no one left in the world, travels the land in search of a remedy that can bring her child back to life, only to find a cure not for the child's mortality, but for the grief she can no longer bear.

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A woman's journey to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her partner takes her to a world far removed from her own.

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The Nye family, who arrived in London from Australia in the '60s, were passionate about horses. They established a stable in Hyde Park, and have been doing a remarkable work at the community level for decades. They contributed to democratizing riding in the city, passing their dream from generation to generation. The camera captures the day-to-day routines and challenges of life at Ross Nye Stables with humour and poetry. Premiere at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2021

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Rena attends a speed dating event where she meets an array of daters all with the same objective, to find a connection. Rena questions whether love and technology are a stairway to heaven or a marriage made in hell. Commissioned by BBC Arts New Creatives and Screen South.

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Leading scientist and OCD-sufferer, Dr Beth Anderson breaks into a high security compound in the dead of night and risks losing everything to save a colleague from an out-of-date sandwich.

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An exiled Venezuelan director returns to his collapsing country to make a fiction film based on his own self-destructive father, who he casts to play himself. Father and son venture to the Amazon jungle, revisiting past traumas in a country that offers them no future. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF explores the ways a son who left and a father who stayed face the pains of their past and the uncertainty of their future, all through the catharsis of making a film.