Projects matching: Jones

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It is 1952. Bill Rowan is eighteen years old, dreaming his life away at the family's riverside home, waiting to be called up for two years' conscription in the British Army. His idyll is shattered by the harsh realities of boot camp. He meets Percy, an amoral prankster; they are rivals and antagonists, but they gradually forge a deep friendship in the claustrophobic environment of a closed, prison-like training camp. The pressure is briefly relieved by excursions into the outside world, where they both fall in love. Finally, Bill is confronted with the shattered lives of wounded boys returning from Korea.

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"Walk With Me?" is a Guerrilla feature film shot according to 'the Guerrilla Filmmaker's Handbook' by Chris Jones. This film takes a surreal look into the life and mind of a writer who is healing after a car accident and suffering with Insomnia in London. She finds inspiration from the characters she meets in her dreams. Dreams and reality become blurred as her insomnia and sleeplessness fuel her writing.

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate, bi-racial daughter of a Royal Navy admiral in 18th-century Britain.

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Lot 13 is a dark comedy short charting the increasingly bizarre bidding war for the mysterious auction lot.

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Inspired by Andy Warhol’s quote that "one day everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," yet based on real events. Warhol is a poignant and at times disturbing look at the media; social and otherwise, as it holds a mirror up to the distorted world of celebrity culture.

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Beneath Bruce Garrett’s shabby, overweight exterior, the passionate beating heart of a salsa king lays dormant. Only one woman can reignite his Latin fire. Spotlight hits, sweat drips, heels click – Nick Frost IS Cuban Fury.

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A woman's past is held inside her, locked away - a painful secret. A past life, a past love is kept hidden. This is the dilemma of Nelly Ternan, the heroine of The Invisible Woman. Nelly, a happily married mother and school teacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens, with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. Dickens - famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success -
falls for Nelly, one of three sisters - all actresses. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens - a brilliant amateur actor - a man more
emotionally coherent in his work, or on stage, than in life. The nature of performance and the life of the theatre are an important part of this film, particularly in regards to the perception of women in theatre and the ambivalence of their position. Nelly, in some ways a muse for Dickens, becomes the focus of his passion. For both of them, secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of 'invisibility'.

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After coming out and leaving his girlfriend, Adam meets Rocky, a handsome stranger with an unsettling secret. As Rocky prepares to open up to Adam, their fledgling romance is ruptured by a cataclysmic event that forces the truth to come out in the most explosive manner.

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A man lights a candle to his grandfather, who was shot for cowardice in the Great War.

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This short dance film celebrates the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, it is a tribute to the miraculous travel system which we all use everyday. This film presses pause for a moment and lets us take a look. A real intersection between art and life, almost surreal theatrical show with London's commuters as a backdrop.

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David Bond is a father. Things have really changed since he was a kid. His children are hooked on screens and don't want to go outdoors. They want iPads, TV and plastic toys. The marketing departments of Apple, Disney and Mattel control his children better than he can. Determined to get them up and out, David appoints himself as the Marketing Director for Nature. With the help of branding and outdoor experts, he develops and launches a nationwide marketing campaign to get children outside. PROJECT WILD THING is the hilarious, real-life story of one man's determination to get children out and into the ultimate, free wonder-product: Nature. Contributors include naturalist Chris Packham, writer and environmentalist George Monbiot, scientist Jaak Panksepp, writer Jay Griffiths, advertising guru Michael Wolff, and brain scientist Prof Baroness Susan Greenfield.

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Four friends turned first-time robbers thought they'd planned the perfect crime: steal £1 million from an illegal casino, catch a plane to Malaysia, and get lost in emerald jungles, golden beaches, and cheap alcohol. And it worked. Almost. They left the casino with the cash and boarded that plane, but before they got to Malaysia, a volcanic eruption in Iceland redirected their flight to a Post-Soviet Eastern European country they'd never head of, with a name they couldn't pronounce. Now, if they're ever going to find paradise, they're going to have to fight their way out, past the never ending stream of gangsters, dodgy locals and dirty cops - as well as the London mobsters they ripped off in the first place, who are now hot on their heels and in no mood for negotiation!