Gemma wakes to find her house on fire. Trapped with her son, she dials 999. The operator who answers holds Gemma’s life in her hands.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Short Film Competition
The story of the footsoldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal state.
Telluride Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Kate is an out of work actress who is working in a central London shop. That is until she gets made redundant. Inspired by Bonnie Parker, Kate releases her inner bad girl, and with her shop assistant friends comes up with a plot to rob the shop, but where is her Clyde?
Alice, a young girl who's recently moved to London to live with her older brother, struggles to come to terms with what she wants in life and who she is. She becomes friends with an American girl, who is seemingly everything she would like to be. But Alice can't break out of the cycle of mental and emotional insecurity she's found herself experiencing, since moving to the big smoke
Through a series of oral testimonies and carefully composed portraits, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches explores how individuals and groups spend time in two distinctive public London locations.
Made by Esther Johnson as part of an Arts & Humanities Research Council project, this poetic documentary illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of General Gordon Square, Woolwich, and St Helier Open Space, Sutton.
Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the film incorporates contributions from a diverse range of visitors. These testimonies highlight themes such as the psychological feeling of being in a space, the rhythm and flow of visitors to a place, the importance of design for everyday street furniture and access to communal outdoor space.
The film acts like a stranger who joins you to ‘watch the world go by’, and to break the ice by starting a conversation with their fellow bench user.
Biopic of Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie, a Scottish-born immigrant to the United States, became the second-richest man in the world during the steel industry boom at the end of the 19th century. The industrialist and activist, whose vast steel business contributed to America’s growing military power, then gave away almost his entire fortune through numerous philanthropic ventures, including the funding of over 3000 public libraries worldwide.
A homage to 1960s gothic fantasy, and Italian and Japanese horror, Black Woods at Sundown's cautionary tale follows a girl's serene summer afternoon, as it descends into psychedelic nightmare.
Hyperactive teenager Broadfoot has an imageary friend called Ian who happens to be a middle aged man dressed in a SS uniform. One day Ian takes Broadfoot on an adventure in search of gold but he soon realises he has been mislead into taking part in a deadly crime.
Charlie bottles up his problems into a cloud floating above his head. A tense birthday dinner with his wife forces him to confront his issues - with spectacular results.
Cibo Di Violenza is an extreme shockumentary that tells the short and horrific story of cannibalism, it also hits you hard with what some cultures are alleged to eat and how far some company’s go to get their flavourings. This film is certainly not for the squeamish but it does ask more questions about us humans than it provides answers.
From their first conversation the film set out to highlight reaction to unspecified places, as jump off points to something, offering a culture of play in " Ballardian" environments where past planning has lost relevance. Places that induce reaction to the architecture of existence.
