Projects with status: Complete

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Following the death of their friend, two women in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Shot over four weeks in November 2014 on the campus of Aichi University of the Arts, Nagoya, Japan, designed by Junzo Yoshimura and opened in 1966. The film explores the remarkable architecture of this 'campus world' through the camera and through a collaborative project with students.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Relationships between energy systems, localised and national, and the weather with its own structures and rhythms are closely observed.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Tien is drawn into his older brother’s Triad gang but when coerced to go on a hit with a Japanese samurai sword, he begins to doubt his allegiance.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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"An enlivened 16mm mediation on lush green sprouting plants and vegetation, signaling life, change and development within an urban environment otherwise preoccupied by stasis." William Fowler, LFF
"An old ceramic jar from my parent’s house. Images of places its presence brings. A study of object and place." Peter Todd
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A documentary about a single man, Tom, who challenges himself to find his next date without the use of the internet.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Love Strand - World premiere

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In this comedy about cold feet, Emily, ready for the wedding of her dreams, meets Rob, a Henry VIII street entertainer, and takes it as a bad sign. Beheadings, divorces and annulments race through her mind, but marriage will make everything better...right?
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP), the filmmaker comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran in the 1930s who was later to embark on a search for the origins of civilisation. 'The Host' sets out on its own exploration, to decipher signs from the fragmented images buried in the BP (British Petroleum) Archive. This journey through the past interweaves a number of stories drawn from both personal memory and the records of an imperial history, which builds a picture of a 20th-century colonial encounter. 'The Host' is a personal essay film about the stories we tell about ourselves and others, the facts and fictions we live by, and their consequences. (LFF brochure)
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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"I find that the most inexplicable behavior is motivated by very relatable human impulses," comments Louis Theroux as he heads to Los Angeles for this feature documentary, in collaboration with director John Dower and producer Simon Chinn, exploring the Church of Scientology. Following a long fascination with the religion and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church’s headquarters is turned down. Inspired by the Church’s use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organisation, Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about Louis Theroux. Suffused with a good dose of humour and moments worthy of a Hollywood script, this true life film is stranger than fiction.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Dare Strand - World premiere

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Charting the band The Maccabees’s creative process as they record their fourth album, ‘Marks To Prove It’, working in self-imposed isolation in an anonymous studio in London’s Elephant and Castle... The film becomes a compelling, poetic portrait of the area and its local population... gardens are created in surprising spaces; a local musician is having a suit tailored, BB heals through prayer at the concrete-built Crossways church, and the 100 year old Arments Pie and Mash shop is, as ever an enduring local institution. All of these tales are woven through the band’s experimentation – their false turns, self-doubts and triumphs – as they create what will become an incendiary, life-affirming album - LFF
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Sonic Strand - World premiere

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Tamara is a bus conductor. She has a date after work at a karaoke bar. But she brings her young son with her.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival - Dare Strand - World premiere

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Elaine is having trouble balancing her life between her teenage daughter and her secret evening job. Over one evening her personal life spills over into her work when faced with an indecisive young couple.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival - Dare Strand - World premiere