Projects with status: Complete

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Inspired by a real car crash and by political rupture in 1996, part Road movie, part film noir the film challenges genre conventions to propose a post rupture female led future. Four passengers on a journey in a black Mercedes are unaware of their significance as state archetypes: a Police Commissioner, a Politician and a Right-wing Assassin. The fourth passenger is Yenge, the only female traveller, a woman silenced by the genre conventions of her role in the film. After a rupture Yenge’s noir voiceover begins to interrupt the male characters’ forced bravado as they are haunted by the Resistant Dead – the residual movements created from stories of people refusing to be forgotten. The film’s destination, The Gossip, addresses tales of female emancipation and empowerment, where a group of female activists transcend time, geographical borders and linguistic barriers to gather in a neutral nether-realm of conversation and mutual support. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Set in the idyllic spa town of Ilkley during its annual literary festival, this black comedy follows two hapless evangelicals tasked with killing the world’s most controversial secularist.

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An intergenerational film that traverses the relationship between my grandmother (Raji) and my mother (Aruna), during challenging times. As Raji struggles to fight her hallucinatory demons, Aruna attempts to embrace her world.

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An animated documentary about the precarious lives of African immigrants seeking their fortunes in Guangzhou, China - the centre of a booming global trade in counterfeit goods.

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THE WHOLE TRUTH tells an honest yet hopeful story of the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse, honouring the strength of survivors and championing friendship and communication as healing tools. Mallory is a smart, well-intentioned but lonely young police officer who must interview Jenny, a schoolgirl, about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her teacher. During their ABE interview, as she struggles to get Jenny to confront her trauma and admit the truth of what has happened to her, an unlikely bond forms between the two women. As tensions rise, Mallory is forced to face the truth about her own past and realise that the best way for her to truly help Jenny is to finally find the strength to share it. With each others support, Mallory and Jenny must face the abuse they have suffered and find the strength to talk about it. THE WHOLE TRUTH confronts the stigma around childhood sexual abuse head on and explores the impact of child abuse in adulthood, the importance of speaking up and the future that is possible for survivors when they begin to heal. The film aims to empower survivors, dissolve the taboo around these issues and spark discussions among audiences around the importance of support systems for survivors navigating an often traumatising legal system alongside the psychological aftermath of abuse. THE WHOLE TRUTH is endorsed by the charity One in Four www.oneinfour.org.uk

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A lone teenage girl roams the streets of Dublin urgently trying to buy alcohol in this intense, family drama.

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When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her. Shaun, the world’s favourite sheep returns to the big screen in the sequel to his hugely successful and highly acclaimed Oscar-nominated 2015 cinematic debut SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE.

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A gritty British drama set in modern-day London. Nearing her final year of school, Hilda’s aspirations hit rock bottom when she is forced to contend with the abandonment of her parents and the dependency of younger siblings. Determined to avoid the breakup of her family, she depends on dance to keep the enclosing chaos at bay. As people begin to vanish from Hilda's life, her only constant is music, but when it stops the silence is deafening.

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CAT IN THE WALL tells the true story of how a cat, stuck in a wall, changes the lives of aspirational migrants, benefit fraudsters and gentrified Brexiteers. Life on a council estate in Brexit London - gentrification plans bring astronomic bill for homeowners and aggravate the community. In the eye of the storm Irina, a Bulgarian single mother, tries to breakthrough as an architect and refuses to live on benefits like most of her neighbours. She galvanizes the homeowners to appeal against bill with the Council but the English assure her that any attempt to fight the system is doomed. Irina’s family and people living on benefits clash over the ownership of a cat. different side of British society is revealed to her and she realises she is trapped in the walls of her property and metaphorically in her mind. She takes a drastic decision to change her life. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - International Competition - World premiere

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Released in 1974, Changin' Times was an extraordinary album recorded in extraordinary circumstances. This was the first-ever commercial album recorded inside a prison. The artist's name was Ike White and he was locked up from the age of 19, serving life for murder. His journey from prison to industry adulation to freedom is one of the greatest stories never told. On the cusp of stardom, Ike slipped out of the limelight, changed his name, and disappeared. This is his story.

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Follwing the lives of the Crawley family and their servants at Downton Abbey in post-Edwardian Britain. The letter announces that Downton will play host to the King and Queen for a single night during a royal tour of Yorkshire. Lady Mary temporarily sidelines the question of mending the roof to focus on the task of overseeing the arrangements. But it’s below stairs – the flailing feet under the gliding swan – that the organisational burden is shouldered. The redoubtable former butler Mr Carson is tempted out of retirement, much to the annoyance of current butler Thomas Barrow. Meanwhile, a smouldering family feud reignites between Lady Violet Crawley and her estranged cousin Maud Bagshaw, lady-in-waiting to the Queen...

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Horacio, a former window dresser, sets up complicated charades where women and life-sized dolls change places in a web of jealousy, betrayal and murder. Inspired by Felisberto Hernández's 'Las Hortensias'. Official Selection L'Étrange Festival 2019 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Special Events Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 - Deep Focus