Projects

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An east-end drug dealer has to take his son to work and spends the day struggling to connect with him. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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California ‘77: playground of the rich and famous, sun-soaked, sex-crazed and powered by shitloads of Colombian cocaine. Leading the parade is maverick auto-designer John DeLorean, a high-risk gambler and corporate vampire. Blinded by ambition, even if that means selling his soul, DeLorean will stop at nothing to design the ultimate car of the future, a sports car with wings. On the outside looking in is DeLorean’s neighbour Jim Hoffman, barely supporting his family while living high-end on the pay of a low-end bullshit artist. When busted by the feds with a planeload of drugs, Jim is forced to turn snitch by Special Agent Benedict Tisa. His ultimatum: deliver the head of John DeLorean. A turbo-charged tale of ambition, entrapment and betrayal based on a true story of sting operations and lurid celebrity scandals. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations

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Global in scope but intimate in spirit, a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and buzzing metropoles New York and Hong Kong. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - World premiere

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Filmed over five years, following three women and their football team in post-revolution Libya, as the country descends into civil war and the utopian hopes of the Arab Spring begin to fade. Through the eyes of these accidental activists, we see the reality of a country in transition, where the personal stories of love and aspirations collide with History. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs - World premiere

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In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family. Official Selection Toronto Intenrational Film Festival 2018 - Discovery - World premiere

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By turns raucous and reserved, 'I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead' ponders the future of a world in flux as seen through the eyes of motherhood accented by poets CAConrad and Eileen Myles. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future

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A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Midnight Madness - World premiere Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Tribeca Critics’ Week

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A moving portrait of resilience chronicling the unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race. The Whitbread Round the World Race (rechristened the Volvo Ocean Race in 2001) was considered an exclusively masculine endeavour when Edwards came along and, in the face of much sexist condescension, proved that skill, perseverance, and courage at sea know no gender. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs - World premiere

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Prolific director Werner Herzog’s candid conversations with the former Soviet head of state form the backbone of this illuminating documentary, co-directed by André Singer, on one of the 20th century’s most defining politicians. Across a six-month period, Werner Herzog conducted three interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev that are the foundation for this riveting film. Now 87, Gorbachev speaks like a man with nothing to lose. He is respected more outside Russia than inside, where he's blamed for the Soviet Union's breakup in 1991. He laments that "we didn't finish the job of democracy in Russia." And he worries that others took the wrong lessons from perestroika: "Americans think they won the Cold War and this went to their head. What victory?" Herzog applies his own unique perspective and narration to a deep archive of footage, often with his eye oriented toward the absurd. Other key eyewitnesses to this history from the US, Germany, Hungary, and Poland are also interviewed, building a personal and revealing picture of Gorbachev as a statesman and as a human. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs

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When female homicide detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend. 'Out of Blue' is a neo-noir detective story, a metaphysical mystery revolving around contemporary Atlanta and the mysteries of the universe, in which Mike’s quest for the truth destabilizes her view of the world, and herself. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Platform - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Voices

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Set over the historic year when Robert the Bruce, the great 14th Century Scottish king, fought to regain control of his country. A true David and Goliath story: Having been crowned King of Scots, and then defeated in a surprise attack and made an 'outlaw' by the English King and his occupying forces, the 'Outlaw King' used cunning and bravery to repel and defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere

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In a picturesque village in England, Joan Stanley, lives in contented retirement. Her tranquil existence is shockingly shattered as she’s arrested by MI5. For Joan has been hiding an incredible past; she is one of the most influential spies in living history… Cambridge University in the 1930s, and the young Joan, a demure physics student, falls intensely in love with a seductively attractive Russian saboteur, Leo. Through him, she begins to see that the world is on a knife-edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to military supremacy. Post-war and now working at a top secret nuclear research facility, Joan is confronted with the impossible: would you betray your country and your loved ones, if it meant saving them? What price would you pay for peace? Inspired by an extraordinary true story, a taut and emotional discovery of one woman’s sacrifice in the face of incredible circumstances. A woman to whom we perhaps all owe our freedom. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere