Projects with status: Post-production, Pre-production

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Accused of killing her new-born baby, young mother Ashley Ard is going on trial for murder. But what really happened that winter night in Anchorage, Alaska? Alison Millar's probing documentary reveals the secrets and lies in a case that has gripped America.

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In autumn 2019, Footwork Films invites you to experience a groundbreaking reimagining of the best-known love story of all time. Set to a unique recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s original score, International Emmy award-winning Michael Nunn and William Trevitt restage and direct Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s remarkable choreography in an audacious first in contemporary filmmaking. The cinematic costume drama features the current generation of stars of The Royal Ballet, internationally known as the strongest actor-dancers in the world, starring William Bracewell as Romeo and Francesca Hayward as Juliet in their feature film debuts. As members of the feuding Capulet and Montague families, Romeo and Juliet should be sworn enemies, but they fall deeply in love and marry in secret. That very day, disastrous circumstances lead Romeo to fight and kill Juliet's cousin Tybalt, setting off a chain of events that culminate in tragedy. Juliet takes a potion to avoid the love-match her parents have set up for her, and Romeo, believing she is dead, poisons himself. When she wakes from her deep sleep, Juliet finds the body of her love, and is so distraught that she stabs herself, joining him in death.

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Deep beneath the English Channel a small army of well-trained war criminals have seized control of the Eurostar, taking four hundred hostages at gunpoint. Their plan: to blow up the Channel Tunnel and declare economic war on a government that has its own fair share of secrets to keep. One man stands in their way - SAS operator Tom Buckingham who is hiding somewhere inside the train. Alone and injured, he’s the only chance the passengers have to get out alive. Based on Andy McNab’s bestselling novel 'Red Notice'

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Ernest Shackleton led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and is best remembered for how he handled adversity. When his ship Endurance was crushed by polar ice floes Shackleton managed to keep his crew alive in a harrowing journey to safety in sub zero temperatures.

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Vivek "Vicky" Rai, a notorious industrialist and movie producer shoots Ruby Gill, a Delhi bartender dead when she refuses to serve him. Thanks to his father, a corrupt Indian Cabinet Minister he never serves any jail time and is acquitted of Ruby's murder. However, during a gala to celebrate his acquittal he is killed. Six gun-wielding guests are arrested.

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A portmanteau documentary made by displaced Syrian filmmakers through workshops in Beirut, Amman and Istanbul. Each film is distinct, but what they have in common is their ability to surprise and move us with otherwise untold known stories told in a highly accessible and creative way, reminding us of the strains of exile and the resilience of the human spirit.

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"Defeat isn't when you fall, but when you fail to get back up." The story of a former athlete’s painful breakdown and his comeback as a boxer.

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The true story of a man who became the Pentagon’s most valuable spy during the last years of the Cold War. Despite numerous rejections by a cautious CIA on the lookout for undercover KGB agents, Adolf G. Tolkachev, the chief designer at the USSR’s Research Institute of Radio Engineering, handed over tens of thousands of pages of highly classified documents to the USA. Tolkachev quickly became the crown jewel of the CIA’s spy network, though in return, his greatest ask was for gifts for his son. For years, Tolkachev and his handler successfully eluded the KGB in its own backyard, until the day came when a shocking betrayal put them all at risk.

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Nelson Mandela recounts his life story, from birth, through life to death surrounded by his grandchildren in unique drama-documentary featuring extraordinary unseen footage. Narrated by Mandela himself, one of history’s extraordinary enduring figures, his account reveals previously unheard, personal and touching testimony, teamed with emotional conflict. Travelling through time back to his beginnings as a rebellious young man in South Africa; his rebirth as a lawyer; 27 years imprisonment on Robben Island and finally to his release and free and fair elections and victory against Apartheid rule. The interviews and narration are the last oral and video account by the great man before his death. The film was edited by Gregers Salls (SENNA) and officially supported by the Mandela Foundation, and Mandela’s own family.

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Christmas shop-worker Kate harumphs around London, a bundle of bad decisions accompanied by the jangle of bells on her shoes, another irritating consequence from her job as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. When Tom walks into her life and sees through so many of Kate’s barriers he seems too good to be true. Although nothing should work for these two, as London transforms around them at the most wonderful time of the year, perhaps a bit of the Christmas magic can make their romance sparkle? Inspired by the late George Michael's perennial holiday hit 'Last Christmas' and featuring unreleased music by the former Wham co-founder.

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The third installment in the Kingsman story, picking up where 'Kingsman: 'The Golden Circle' left off.

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A newly widowed mother returns to her father's isolated hotel, where a sinister folklore presence stalks the land. In UK folklore, Spriggans were depicted as spirits related to the trolls of Scandinavia. They were often characterized as grotesquely ugly, wizened old men with large child-like heads. Although small, they were often considered to be the ghosts of giants, with the ability to swell to far greater size. The character has become the subject of a host of manga series in Japan.