Projects with status: Complete

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First impressions are so important.

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Kent, England 1940. When an evacuee boy arrives out of the blue and is placed in the care of Alice, a cantankerous hermit, she resolves to be rid of him. Yet, as the young boy opens her heart, allowing her to unlock the secrets of her past, Alice begins to realise that sometimes imagination really can set you free.

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The sudden disappearance of his wife and children sends Will on a frantic search across Europe to regain his family and piece his life back together. He locates them in a remote village in France, but relief turns to horror when Will discovers his baby son has mysteriously died. Grief struck, Will secretly buries him in a bid to protect his wife. But by burying the truth, Will now risks destruction. As the mystery behind his wife’s actions start to take a dark and menacing form, Will sets out to discover the truth about his wife’s disappearance and his son’s tragic death—no matter the cost.

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It's 1981 and the world has just witnessed a fairytale wedding. Lonely Lilith has finally found the man of her dreams, and she'll give everything to keep him. A body horror with a twist of romance. YouTube link to full film

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The Thin Man (Ciarán Hinds) journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. On his escape he hears stories of love and loss, listens to Schubert, Otis Redding and Canteloube, and encounters mysterious strangers including The Damp Man (Stephen Dillane), The Chef (Muna Otaru) and The Biker (Maïwenn). A contemporary odyssey of music, story-telling and silent comedy traversing the wonderful landscapes of France.

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A grief-stricken father hunts down the boy responsible for the events which led to his son’s murder but finds himself unable to escape the consequences of his own violent actions.

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A b&w 16mm artists' essay film, drawn from the book ‘Republic Of Dogs / Republic Of Birds' by the poet Stephen Watts, exploring landscape, history, memory and the power of words to celebrate and resist. “For four decades, poet, translator and activist Stephen Watts has been the quietly urgent, profoundly committed voice of the marginalised and the overlooked, whether person or place. He understands that the true ethical centre that matters lies at the edge, whether in the pull of outpost islands or the common ground of migrant streets. Now he has found his collaborative equal in the engaged 16mm filmmaker Huw Wahl, who has translated the text of Watt’s book-length prose poem Republic Of Dogs / Republic Of Birds into a luminous feature-length documentary essay of remarkable beauty and spirited attention. THE REPUBLICS moves from the early 1980s to the present, and from London’s Isle of Dogs and Scotland’s Western Isles to the mountains of Northern Italy. It is one of the most impressive artists’ films of recent years, whose own poetry speaks as honestly and eloquently as that of the writer it portrays.” (Gareth Evans, Moving Image Curator, Whitechapel Gallery)

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Shot in one single take, the film follows a 13 year old Bangla girl from East London escaping a forced marriage with the help of her girlfriend. Part of the Arri Trinity challenge.

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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.