Projects with status: Complete

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A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line. Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Opening Film (Out of Competition)

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A tense and atmospheric story about a little girl who witnesses an act of horrible violence at home, and how it drives her to despair and obsession.

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The apocalypse has arrived and the only way out is in the back of a truck. A middle class family flee the city. The truck stops to pick up new passengers, triggering a meltdown of the family dynamic. But who will make it to the end?

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A tormented and neglected twelve year old finds solace watching violent spaghetti western movies. When she finds an antique pistol in her late father's belongings she decides to stand up to her tormentors, just like her gun-slinging heroes.

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A beautiful, inspiring and bittersweet story about language and childhood in Africa. Steward, Elizabeth and M’barak are three first time school pupils in rural Zambia who struggle to make sense of an educational system where the language they speak at home is different from the language used in the classroom. Moments of perplexed incomprehension, both comedic and tragic ensue, as the children slowly come to terms with the fact that their tongue is no longer their own. At a time when nearly 40% of the world’s population lack access to education in their own language, this documentary offers an intimate and moving insight into a global phenomenon from the unique perspective of three innocent children.

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Tootega is a witch who ekes out an isolated existence on an iceberg adrift in the ocean. It's a miserable lot, and in Tootega's case, misery hates company! Derek is a merman – more fish than man really – who spends his days joyously rollicking around the ocean, oblivious to the fact that his dreadful singing is the very reason he remains friendless. This is the story of what happens when these two unlikely characters come together, as Derek begins to unlock the painful secret Tootega has kept hidden for a long, long time…

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An aspiring yet dispirited dancer develops an odd relationship with an obscene phone caller. Together they discover an impassioned interest in self-amputation

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A British Nigerian family, fragmented by their personal struggles tries to come to terms with their youngest daughters mutism.

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A look into the anxiety of vertigo and a discordance between technology, self and the natural world. Re- appropriated footage is taken from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', accommodating the tone of the volatile character Willy Wonka. As our sensory bodies are plummeted through fictional landscapes with sinister undertones, inducing fear into our fantasy.

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An animated film created to support and encourage girls to believe in themselves in difficult regions around the globe, where societal change and growth is needed and should be positively encouraged.

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Helped by her self-made flying mechanical creatures, a young inventor and a pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship.

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No one on the planet has drawn more than Laurie Lipton. Armed with only a pencil, her haunting images seek answers to the most uncomfortable themes in our culture. But what compels her to live a life of isolation drawing is neither black nor white.