Projects with status: Complete

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A woman has a nightmare. In her dreams, she receives a phone call that brings terrible news but when she wakes up she can't recall the message. What happens next will change her life forever.

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Zahida Kazmi is the first female taxidriver in Pakistan and a local legend. Independent, feisty and street-wise, she is a master hustler. Twice a widower and 56 years old, she is fighting to make a living on the dusty roads of Rawalpindi. Also a mother to 7 year old Zara, she is continually juggles her home life with behind the wheel. Reciting beautiful poetry in nostalgic moments off the road, Zahida reflects on her fate. Zahida is a fascinating insight into the trials faced by a determined woman carving her own path within a patriarchal society.

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When 15 year old Tim Edge and his two mates, Vic and Alf bunk off from a school trip at the Natural History Museum they encounter a mad female scientist Lena and her latest invention called The Vitalitron. The machine is capable of predicting the time of death of any living creature, and when Tim decides to sneak inside for a reading, it predicts he has only 2 hours left to live. Tim and his two friends then run amok across London as he attempts to cram a lifetime into 2 hours, pursued by tabloid journalists Tooley and Graves who are desperate for the story to save their ailing careers, and Lena who wants to make sure Tim dies on time whether the machine is right or not.

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Shergar was once the most valuable stallion in the world. His kidnapping in 1983 by the IRA still grips public’s imagination. What really happened with the prizewinning Irish racehorse? BAFTA-winning director Alison Millar goes in search of new evidence to try to solve the mystery.

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After his ninth unsuccessful attempt on his own life, down on his luck William (age 27) outsources his end to Leslie (age 65) an ageing assassin with a good heart but a shaky gun-hand. "If you're serious about ending it, you need professional help"

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William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, slow edits and minimal camera movement, no camera tricks. In an effort to recuperate black dance from this colonial project, SPECIALISED TECHNIQUE, attempts to transform this material from studied spectacle to livingness. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future

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An experimental horror short that explores the modern disease becoming known as consumption. It follows successful product photographer Anna, who aims for a life filled with perfect moments, inspired by a constant stream of social media feeds, sponsored blogs and fairytales playing on her computer. Yet whenever alone Anna's beautifully curated life is taken over by a growing hunger, and she starts hearing disturbing organic sounds. She controls this by eating pretty things, yet the hunger and sounds become inescapable, until even the men she dates become consumable objects. Critiquing the insidious influence of advertising and corporations that has seeped into our digital lives. Made of endlessly looping cinemagraphs, it subverts a trendy online medium in order to reflect the impossibility of attaining everlasting perfection, something that we are socially conditioned to strive for. The film contains many hidden references, such as the myth of King Midas, pro-Ana online support groups and the Algonquin cannibal spirit Wetiko - a metaphor for society’s dopamine addiction and the inner void it creates. Anna's story also exists as an endlessly looping series of perfect moments here: instagram.com/annaeatspretty

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Jay Wilde struggles with his conscience every time he takes his cows to be slaughtered. Completely trapped within the industry, Jay realises that he must find a way to make a change. BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Winner, Best British Short Film

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We all have a different rhythm. BACK AND FORTH is a dance about individual rhythms that go together, seem to clash or just stay separate.

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The first of three philosophical enquiries shot on the historic Isle of Thanet. Scenes from a coast where the Roman fleet is thought to have first landed in Britain. Screenplay, adapted from writings by Virginia Woolf and Raul Ruiz, in a language thought to be closest in sound to spoken Latin.

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Sasha brings up the topic of sexual experimentation with her boyfriend, but before she can elaborate, he shuts her down. Frustrated and trying to understand her own desires, she goes on the trip they were supposed to go on together where she explores the line between fantasy and reality.

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Nobody should have to die alone. A woman cares for sick animals, staying with them when they die. A contemplation on life, death and kindness.