Projects with status: Complete

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In June 2015 Alex Smith completed an Ironman triathlon, known as the toughest single day challenge you can undertake, carrying his 40kg disabled son the whole way. An epic achievement for his son, who is dying from a fatal muscle wasting disease: Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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'The Outcast' is based on Sadie Jones’ debut novel of the same name and tells the story of ten year Lewis Aldridge who witnesses his mother’s tragic death. His emotionally distant father struggles to deal with the situation and soon remarries. Lewis is taunted about the circumstances surrounding his mother’s death and begins to self-harm. And subsequently sets the local church on fire and is sent to prison. Once released from prison, he has increasingly complicated relationships with the women in his life including his stepmother as he struggles to face his demons.

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This is a short story about collisions – a collision between a swan and a power line a muddy man in a ditch and a woman with blood on her hands.

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Undocument bears witness to four journeys of longing and love, immigration and identity, as one cinematic vision. Leila married for love and staked everything to flee Afghanistan and join her husband in London so that she can give birth and raise their child to read and write, live and think freely. To the family harbouring her, these secrets pose a dangerous threat. Somewhere in Greece an Iranian mother struggles to maintain her dignity and protect her eight-year-old son. Day after day the boy watches as their trafficker berates and humiliates the adults, with an uncomfortable mix of fear and admiration. Laura may have entered the UK before Poland was part of the EU but now everything's as it should be, until her teenage daughter answers the door to immigration officers wanting to know about Sami, her mother's North African partner. Ramzi maintains the required distance from his Arab brothers and sisters in his role as a courtroom interpreter. Then he witnesses a young boy reaching out to touch his mother – a face on the courtroom monitor – and is confronted by his own complicity in the institutional processes and procedures that determine the outcome of individual human stories.

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A group of students from single-sex private schools, spend a night patrolling the eerie grounds of the historic Dhoultham School as part of an initiative with the British Army to provide rich kids with basic military training. As each hour passes the teenagers witness a series of increasingly disturbing, ghostly occurrences. Personal conflicts are magnified and details of the school’s horrific secrets bubble to the surface. The ante is upped by two thieves who have chosen the night to conduct a heist on the school Archive: a vault of priceless historical documents. As the supernatural encounters begin to take a malevolent turn, the students realise they must escape Dhoultham before the night's end... The only problem is they have all been separated; trapped in a labyrinth of ghosts, pistol-packing madmen and a deeper, darker evil.

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Harness the power of hindsight. 'While they Watched' is a feature documentary about North Korea set in the future, that looks back atthe collapse of the Kim dictatorship. The film questions the morality of the current inaction by regional and global powers towards the North Korean dictatorship.

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When successful artist, Woods, suddenly loses his beloved wife Marie in horrific circumstances, his heart breaks. Winter tells the story of a father’s emotional break-down and the effect it has on his two young sons, 19 year old Tom and 14 year old Max, their struggle against the system and their love for each other.

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A tale of music and memory is unspooled through a schoolgirl’s mixtape. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Debate Strand

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This feature documentary uses the highly successful stage adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' to frame a cinematic exploration of being on the autistic spectrum. The film uses the story of the play, in which Christopher Boone travels to London to find his mother and solve the mystery of who killed his neighbour’s pet dog, as a spine from which to jump off and explore the journeys of people who are the real life equivalents of the characters in the play. Dakota, a teenager with autism from the Bronx projects, who travels to Manhattan where he inspires and educates the New York cast (in a similar way to Cian Binchy, who advised the original London cast), and who is now training to be a performer himself at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

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aka 'Breaking Good: the Untold Adventures of Two Underground Psychedelic Chemists and Their Mission to Save the World One Trip at Time' The untold story of two idealistic young underground chemists at the heart of the American psychedelic revolution. A real-life 'Breaking Bad' for the psychedelic set, this documentary reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness-raising power of LSD, these underground chemists manufactured a massive amount of acid, including the gold standard for quality LSD, Orange Sunshine, as they tried to stay one step ahead of the feds. (Doc NYC brochure)

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A year in the life of the world’s best footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Filmed on location in Madrid, Lisbon, Madeira, Brazil and the USA, following Ronaldo on and off the pitch during the most important season of his life- offering a fascinating insight into the level of sacrifice, pain, isolation and determination that has gone into making Ronaldo one of the most celebrated football players in the history of the sport.

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An installation piece which is a return to, and a modern elaboration upon, Vincent Van Gogh’s Provence landscapes. A series of digital paintings interrogate and reframe concepts of representation and perception through image manipulation and augmented reality. Using bucolic and contemplative images, juxtaposed with raw data visualization, the project suggests alternate modes of visual synthesis. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - New Frontier