Projects with status: Complete

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A story about motherhood and loss in an abstracted world of childhood memory.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Winner: Shorts Animation Award Tribeca Film Festival 2019

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This documentary explores the stage version of Trevor Griffiths' seminal 1982 television play, 'Oi For England', for the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Looking back to an extensive tour of Inner London community centres before a sell-out run at the Court, it asks: Can theatre or the arts make a difference?

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In the school-set re-working of the classic 'Cyrano de Bergerac' story, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
Directorial feature debut from Toby Macdonald, who previously delivered stand-out short films, including the BAFTA-nominated 'Je t’aime John Wayne' and 'Heavy Metal Drummer'.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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Each moment millions of people are living their lives in completely different ways. In the Western world, the right to study, to get a job, to get married to the person we love, is considered ‘normal’; while these things are happening everywhere in the world they are felt as completely different experiences.
This documentary follows four young girls for one day, each living in a different country but awoken by the same dawn in the same meridian: South Sudan, Romania, Palestine, Finland. Our girls are so different from one another and yet so similar in their behaviours, intentions, desires and dreams.
With their innocence and spontaneity, children can show us our differences and similarities, portraying their inner beauty and sometimes their tragedy. They teach us to be more sympathetic with “others” and give us a better understanding of our world.

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Mr. Karobka doesn’t expect his visit to the dentist to take such a startling, and perhaps satisfying, turn.

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Sarah Francis is a young woman whose life is a bit of a mess. The last thing she needs is someone else to look after, let alone someone who dribbles, snores and eats from the kitchen trash. Yet, like it or not, her grandmother has left Sarah her prized possession, a very spoilt pug named Patrick. Surely she must have had her reasons?! Apparently not, as this four-legged friend proceeds to cause chaos in all aspects of Sarah’s life. But then something remarkable happens as Patrick, with all his stubby, stumpy attitude, begins to turn her life around.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - Special Screening

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When his 65th birthday approaches, Desmond Gentle, an eccentric piano tuner from London, decides to undertake the most difficult and perilous piano delivery of his career. The challenge entails travelling to the heart of the Indian Himalayas with a 100-year old upright piano, carried across high mountain passes using only yaks and ponies. Destination: a primary school in Lingshed, one of the most isolated settlements in the world, situated 14,000 feet above sea. If Desmond is successful, this will be the highest piano delivery in history, and the crown achievement of his 40-year long career.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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Together with Possum, a hideous hand-puppet, disgraced puppeteer Philip returns to his childhood home. Staying with his cruel stepfather, Maurice, Philip soon discovers that ridding himself of Possum is no easy task. When his attempts to destroy the demonic puppet fail, Philip suspects Maurice of manipulating Possum to cause him further distress. As their relationship deteriorates, repressed memories of a traumatic childhood start to resurface. When a local child goes missing and the police suspect him of the crimes, Philip is forced to confront the nightmares of his past and discovers that the real demon lurks much closer to home.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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A satire which pokes fun at advertising and stereotypes through the lens of a faithfully recreated 1970s cigarette advert.

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Jim, an isolated ex-miner who works as a night-shift security guard faces his last day at work before retirement. The film explores the intrinsic relation of an individual to work and asks what's left when, at the end of a lifetime of labour, a man loses his purpose.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019

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Rosemary invites young Basil round for dinner. She only wants one thing. And he's more than willing to accommodate. But when you've imagined something for so long, can reality ever quench your desire?

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Capturing the secret world of a comic book artist, who draws images of women he finds beautiful, and the woman he wants to be. Throughout his life, he has battled “him” and “her”.
However, they both complete, protect and nurture each other whilst guiding him when he needs them.