Projects

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In the late '80s and early '90s, daredevil entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson made an audacious attempt to cross the Atlantic and Pacific in the world's largest hot air balloon. This film is a personal revelation; a dramatic tale of survival and drive. Branson recounts his experience with uncanny vividity, and reveals how baiting death forever changed him. Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Passionate in his anti-Semitic beliefs, Csanád Szegedi was the rising star of Hungary's far-right party until he discovered his family's secret - his maternal grandparents were Jewish. The revelation prompts an improbable but seemingly heartfelt conversion from anti-Semite to Orthodox Jew. This confrontational film explores the complex and contradictory character of Szegedi, prompting deep questions about Szegedi's supposed epiphany. Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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March 2004. The artist known as Banksy illegally erects a ten-foot statue in a small square off Shaftsbury Avenue in central London. Titled 'The Drinker', this sculpture is a replica of Rodin's 'The Thinker' - with a traffic cone placed on its head. The only clue as to who put it there is a stencil on the plinth that merely says 'Banksy'. Then, one day, in broad daylight, masked thieves pull up with a flatbed truck and cart 'The Drinker' away - a reporter from a national newspaper receives a ransom note from a man calling himself AK47, claiming to represent a group of 'art terrorists' calling themselves 'ART KEIDA'. After several years back and forth between the media, Banksy and Art Keida, it is alleged that the artist called Banksy 'arranged' for the statue to be destroyed by any means necessary... Now, after all this time, it seems that AK47 is about to breathe new life into the saga. Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Two mercenaries ride a wave of pitch black camaraderie as they travel through the desert night on their way to carry out a kidnapping in Iraq. As the raid progresses, their frenzied world turns in on itself, as past misdeeds come to the surface violently tearing their world apart. Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Unexpectedly reunited with his daughter amongst the ruins of the world as they knew it, a father is determined to make this day special, even if they are already dead.

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A biographical documentary about the remarkable and turbulent career of British film and TV director Antonia Bird - the first British woman to direct a Hollywood movie, who died in 2013. The film explores her battles to break down the barriers against her gender and her politics, to get her voice heard, and to bring a radical edge to popular drama. It reveals the secrets of her greatest work - Safe, Priest, Face, Ravenous, Care, The Hamburg Cell - through the testimony of her closest friends and collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Mark Cousins, Kate Hardie, Irvine Welsh and Steven Mackintosh.

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An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addiction, told through the uniquely intimate perspective of his own son. After years of acrimony and estrangement, young film-maker Phillip Wood seeks out his father to try and understand what’s happened to him. But his father is now seriously ill and over the next few months Phillip’s visits force both to confront some uncomfortable truths about their past. This documentary offers a strikingly stark exploration into a subject that significantly affected the film-maker's childhood. An intimate, revealing documentary which shows addiction from a different side and challenges assumptions about how families can rebuild their broken relationships.

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A probational experiment forces its newest chosen convict to confront the horror of her crime in order to win her freedom.

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Based on real events- The story of an unlikely friendship forged when a small-time drug dealer and a neglected nine-year-old girl are forced to go on the run together. Jake's world is thrown into disarray when he indadvertedly saves 9-year-old Jade and has to go on the run with her. But can someone from the bottom of the social ladder ever do the right thing in the eyes of the authorities?

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A short film of the poem 'Lights Out' written by Edward Thomas (1878-1917). The poem was a meditation on the possibility that the writer would not survive the First World War... he didn't.

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Two friends fight over a dream car, forcing them to face their dreams, futures and their friendship. Filmed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Six stories of modern love in all of its dizzying, sweet complications. A passionate trip around the world with Gael García Bernal, Sion Sono, Sebastián Silva, Mia Wasikowska, Anurag Kashyap, and Natasha Khan each behind the camera for a 15-minute vignette. Exploring love in all its permutations. The six stories portray contemporary love in all its glorious, sad, ecstatic, empowering, and erotic manifestations. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere