Projects with status: Complete

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Zoe has suffered with leukemia her whole life. When her condition worsens after the latest course of treatment, her doctor gives her a few months to live. Zoe, heartbroken, responds by resigning from life completely while her parents, John and Elizabeth, try to lift her spirits and fail. One day, in a field near her home, an Astronaut falls from the sky, crash landing in a space pod amongst the trees. John and Zoe rescue the Astronaut from the wreckage and take him home. The arrival of the Astronaut into their lives sets in motion a parable full of mystery, love and loss.

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Charlie is a zoo-head, addicted to a powerful hallucinogenic with memory crunching side-effects. He is forced by the authorities to enter a radically experimental rehabilitation treatment designed to recover his memories and put his mind back to how it was before he became addicted. The system crashes and he becomes trapped in horrifying memory loops. Haunted by childhood traumas, Charlie’s psyche repeatedly shuts down in defence, only to reboot with increasingly disturbing recurrences. His girlfriend Megan, herself a recovering addict, reveals the depth of her feeling for him and Charlie realises he actually has something precious to live for. But it may be too late as the twists and turns of the extreme visions intensify, potentially destroying his mind for good. Unless the desperate efforts to save him can succeed.

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Everything changed for Cornelius Walker on the 27th November 2000 when Damilola Taylor was killed in what became one of the UK's most high-profile murder cases. Damilola was eleven - the same age as Cornelius. He lived five minutes away. He had the same colour skin. Cornelius’ mother, scared for her son’s safety, moved their family out of London. Cornelius suddenly found himself living on a white estate run by a white gang. Racism ruled. And Cornelius soon found himself the target of extreme verbal and physical racial abuse. But rather than fight back, Cornelius decided to become more like the people who hated him. He started to wear the same clothes they wore. He changed his accent. He straightened his hair and wore bright blue contact lenses. He even started to bleach his skin Cornelius tried to become white. The white gang became his family and kept him safe. And in return, Cornelius became submerged in a culture of violence and hatred. But as the violence and racism against other blacks continued, Cornelius struggled to marry his real identity with the one he had acquired. Filmed with non-actors in the same locations where the real events took place 15 years ago, BLACK SHEEP blurs the boundaries between documentary and fiction to pose difficult, but highly topical, questions about race and identity. Who decides what makes us who we are? And what compromises are we prepared to make in order to fit in? Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 - Winner, Best Short Documentary Academy Awards 2019 - Oscar Nomination, Best Documentary (Short Subject)

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A bare all Avant-garde homage to silent stag films and pre-code Hollywood.

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Brothers Kevin and John Pullar are desperate to hold onto the family tradition of net fishing from the Scottish coast for wild Atlantic salmon. They face enemies at every turn but are determined to fight on, no matter what the cost. A film about the uneasy relationship between traditional ways and modern day environmentalism. Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere

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Trevor Wallis is a very successful salesman, he works for a medium software company but one day his life changes forever. A gritty northern drama that looks at the horrors of homelessness.

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Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyzes, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel. Official Selection Visions du Réel 2018 - International Competition - World premiere

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Inspired by solar science and spectacular images of the Sun, 'Celestial Motion' explores humans’ relationship to the universe through a cosmic meld of contemporary dance and motion-capture technology. Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere

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After a mysterious electromagnetic pulse renders the world's technology useless, a young girl finds herself isolated and alone with only her father's strict set of rules to keep her alive. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - World premiere

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After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s father, searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help him dig. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Discovery

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Beginning in the 1960s, a small band of young scientists headed out into the wilderness, driven by an insatiable curiosity about how nature works. Immersed in some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth—from the majestic Serengeti to the Amazon jungle; from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools - they discovered a single set of rules that govern all life. Now in the twilight of their eminent careers, these five unsung heroes of modern ecology share the stories of their adventures, reveal how their pioneering work flipped our view of nature on its head, and give us a chance to reimagine the world as it could and should be. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Spotlight Documentary - World premiere

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The side of Silicon Valley you never see, a tale of how great vision and epic failure can change the world. Spun out from Apple in 1990 to create the ‘next big thing’, the ideas that now dominate the tech industry and our day-to-day lives were born at General Magic. The first smartphones. Social media. E-commerce. Even the beloved emoji. But this was before the web, before 3G, before Google, before everyone had a mobile phone in their pocket. The world was not ready in 1994 to hold the world in its hands. And though General Magic died, those concepts and the people who pioneered them went on to change almost everything. Combining rare archive footage with contemporary stories of the Magicians today, this documentary tracks the progress of anytime, anywhere communication from a thing of sci-fi fiction in 1994 to a reality in our pockets and on our wrists today. With members of the original Mac team and the creators of the iPhone, Android, eBay and more, this is the story of one of history’s most talented teams and what happens when those who dream big fail, fail again, fail better and ultimately succeed. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Spotlight Documentary - World premiere