Projects with status: Complete

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A fisherman’s worms are dragged with the fisherman as he goes about his routine - drinking, fishing, living with no purpose. All the while we are reminded of the efficiency and efficacy of the earthworm. Yet, it seems the worms and the fisherman are not so different as initially conceived.

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How does memory work? How can experiences be handed down from generation to generation? How does the act of narration change the experience? Three young men and their grannies go on a quest for their historic and personal legacy. There’s the British spy with a bone-dry sense of humour, the Hungarian communist who survived the Holocaust and the German dancer whose look back turns out to be the most difficult.
Unlike many recent documentaries which focused on conversation and raised their protagonists on a pedestal of awe, the “Granny Project” takes a different approach: playful, not afraid of confrontations, sometimes silly and seconds later honest and emotional. An unconventional attempt of the grandchildren’s generation to ask, on a different level, questions that drove their parents to the streets in the 1960s. This film neither aims to be antagonistic nor accusatory. Instead it’s perhaps naive but no less necessary attempt to understand the other. When the three grannies sit around a table with their grandsons and various interpreters we realise that two things at least are necessary to really bring the past and present in contact: an honest interest in one’s opposite party and a good translation. (Dok Leipzig brochure 2017)
Official Selection Dok Leipzig 2017 - World premiere

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A gothic fairytale following three generations of women coming together in the aftermath of a divorce.
When Alice’s mother, Grace, tells her that her father has become a “beast,” 7-year old Alice begins to question who or what she really is.

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Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She “was the first…” as former husband Miles Davis said. “Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince”. An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the '70s scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion and outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and the Commodores, and married Miles – startlingly turning him from jazz to funk on the album she named “Bitches Brew”. She then, despite being banned and boycotted, went on to become the first black woman to perform, write and manage herself.
Betty was a feminist pioneer, inspiring and intimidating in a manner like no woman before. Then suddenly - she just vanished. Betty Mabry Davis is a global icon whose mysterious life story has until now, never been told. Creatively blending documentary, animation and nonfiction techniques, this movie traces the path of Betty’s life, after years of trying, the elusive Betty, forever the free-spirited Black Power Goddess, finally allowed the filmmakers to creatively tell her story based on their conversations.
Official Selection IDFA 2017 - World premiere

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When Bar Mitzvah boy Brian Silver becomes obsessed with Woody Allen, his mother Judith goes to great lengths to make sure the big day goes smoothly.

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Over the course of one fateful night in East London, thirty-something Candice learns that first impressions are not always everything.

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Frances thinks Brian is having an affair. In her pursuit to save their marriage she will soon find out more than she ever wanted.
A short film based on the stage play CROSS by Deborah Kearne.

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15-year-old Kyle believes he can save his dying older brother with a plant he’s found at the back of a garden centre. Problem is, there’s a shadowy government agency out to destroy it first.

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Ten-year-old James enjoys constructing things from cardboard boxes with his Mum, their latest creation being a box car which they dart around the house in! Mum has an idea for their most ambitious project to date - a cardboard box fort made from thousands of boxes...

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After crashing their car in the Scottish countryside, pregnant couple Rachel and Matt Hopkins are offered shelter by a local farmer and family. That evening Rachel and Matt realise the farmer's daughter is a missing child from the news years before. As they attempt leave the farm and get help, the farmer and his 'daughter' capture and imprison Rachel and Matt - it soon becomes clear they want their baby…

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In an attempt to find acceptance and purpose in an isolated and lonely postmillennial world, Mary Jane turns her peer's addiction to social media against them — to deadly effect.

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A self-help vlogger hasn't left her home in 18 months and has become increasingly interested in the lives of her neighbours with whom she shares a common wall.