Projects with status: Complete

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Adapated from the novel 'Ali and Nino' first published in 1937 by an author writing under the pseudonym Kurban Said. Set in Azerbaijan in 1914 exploring the dilemmas created by 'European' rule over an 'Oriental' society through the love story of Ali and Nino. Ali, a Muslim with his ancestors’ passion for the desert, and Nino, a Christian Georgian girl with sophisticated European ways - the two, who have loved each other since childhood, face a variety of obstacles preventing them from being together, including their religions and the impending threat of World War I. As the political-military situation intensifies in Russia and Turkey, the two become swept up in Azerbaijan’s fight for independence. Sundance Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Take a journey across time to the birth of modern music, when the musical strands of a diverse nation were first combined, thereby sparking a cultural revolution that forever transformed the future of music and the world. The event will include clips of the film, an extended conversation with the creators including executive producers Robert Redford, T Bone Burnett and Jack White, and live performances featuring The Avett Brothers and other special music guests. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2016 - Special Events

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In 1983, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memory and imaginative life 'Notes on Blindness' creates an impression of his new world, immersing the audience in John’s experience of blindness. A feature-length version of Middleton and Spinney's 2014 Sundance-selected short 'Notes on Blindness'. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2016 - New Frontier - World premiere

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Five sisters in 19th century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies. A fresh twist on Jane Austen's widely celebrated novel. A mysterious plague has fallen upon 19th century England, the land is overrun with the undead. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a master of martial arts and weaponry. Casting aside personal and social prejudices, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy must unite on the blood-soaked battlefield to rid the country of the zombie menace and discover their true love for one another.

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A boy growing up in Dublin during the ’80s escapes his strained family life and tough new school by starting a band to win the heart of a beautiful and mysterious girl. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2016 - Premieres - World premiere

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In the aftermath of the Korean War, ambitious young film director Shin Sang-ok and actress Choi Eun-hee enter into a glamorous romance. They rise to the top of the South Korean film industry and are drawn into the inner circle of dictatorial President Park. Their groundbreaking films become instant sensations. But their movie-world idyll is shattered after Shin has a scandalous affair with another actress and confronts the President over censorship, who retaliates by shutting down his studio. Unable to reconcile, Choi and Shin divorce. Then their lives take a bizarre turn. Choi is lured to Hong-Kong by the promise of work, but is bundled onto a boat and sedated. After a grueling sea voyage to North Korea she is welcomed ashore by whimsical dictator's son and movie-obsessive, Kim Jong-il, who imprisons her in his summerhouse. Sundance Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Two worlds collide when Nick, a wealthy hedge fund trader returns home to find squatters have occupied his country house. The London City fund manager is thrown into a race against time over one explosive night.

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The younger lover of a famed astrophysicist is left devastated when he suddenly dies but soon starts to receive messages from him, apparently from beyond the grave.

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Based on a true story. 11 year old Urban’s been running away from care since he was five, (six care home and eight foster homes in six years). He’s Britain’s most runaway child... When he can’t find his mum, he sleeps rough on the streets, or in a shed with other runaways 'The Shed Crew’. He’s never known a dad, just his mentally ill, addict mum, Greta. So when she meets Chop, the first decent bloke they’ve ever known, Urban feels hope for the first time. For Chop, the once idealistic ex-social worker, it’s a chance of redemption. He takes the broken family in, helps Greta, teaches Urban and his brother Frank lessons in life. But the family’s new found happiness is all too fleeting as Greta’s propensity to self-destruct proves too strog, leaving Urban to cope with the fallout the only way he knows how…

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Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled. Palm Springs International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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An out of breath Jake manages to catch a bus to work, unbeknown to him it's the start of a journey towards enlightenment and self discovery. But Jake will need to overcome his own shackles if he is to reach his destination!

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In an animation for Alain de Botton’s School of Life, Joe Bichard draws the daily life of a down-trodden character and their plight to will a little self-compassion.