Projects

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Marla Coppolino has an unusual passion for the world’s smallest dwellers: land snails. In between science and art, Marla brings you into their tiny world. She embarks on a mission to enlighten you to the plight of the lowly land snail through creative, bizarre and unconventional means.

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The estranged relationship between a father and his gay daughter, now a young mother.
The first of two films based on the theme of Love Works: exploring South Asian LGBT relationships in contemporary Britain commissioned by Bobby Tiwana.

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Making It is an original and quirky comedy-drama following one man’s search for love, creative fulfilment and a pencil sharpener. Making It provides a uniquely British take on the challenges faced by today’s thirty-somethings as they try to make their mark on the world.

George Banbury is a 33 year old struggling actor best known for having appeared alongside a troll in a Wine Gums advert. Stuck in a rut and living with his parents, George is going nowhere fast. An unexpected pregnancy and a chance encounter with an ex-girlfriend sees George attempt to expose his inner leading man to a world that has already cast him as a supporting artiste.

Funny and painfully honest, MAKING IT will resonate with anyone who has ever asked themselves, "is this really it?"

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A 2000 year old decorated Iron Age Mirror was found in Oxfordshire, UK. This film documents sampling and research, and considers the significance of this enigmatic object.

Winner of 1st Place category in Non-Fiction
Aahn 2016 International Short Film Event, Mumbai, India

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After learning from her father that she will soon lose her place on the local boy's football team, eleven-year-old Kirsty struggles to come to terms with her evolving identity as a young woman.

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Living far from the continent and isolated from the rest of the world, the Guanches believed they were the only survivors of a terrible natural catastrophy that had wiped out the entire humanity, until six hundred years ago when the Spanish sailors first stepped on the Canary islands. More than 2500 years separated the two cultures.
SAVAGES IN FOREIGN LANDS is a quest to the truth and identity, but also story of survival, legacy, conquest and recognition.

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A rapturous, BAFTA Scotland-winning eulogy to the short life span of stop motion animation puppets.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Sonic Strand

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Stutterer is a poignant, sometimes funny, but ultimately heart-warming story about a very quiet man with an awful lot to offer.

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Lucas (Adam Napier), a photographer, meets the enigmatic Cleo (Sally Scott) in a small English seaside town. They appear to be on a date. En route to a hotel, they encounter a variety of oddball characters, including a priest who has lost his faith, a travelling salesman and a Shakespeare-quoting drunk. Once at the hotel, however, the real reason for Lucas and Cleo’s meeting starts to become apparent…

Shot in long takes with a fluid camera, culminating in a near-silent final half-hour, Sean Martin’s intense drama is a gripping study of two people bound together by a fatal vow.

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An essay video work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the funeral of the filmmakers’ family matriarch. Using personal archive to explore the concepts of female identity, diaspora, cultural memory and most importantly ‘fiction’.

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They say that neurotic behavior is typically within socially acceptable limits, so how do you solve the puzzles in your head while being "normal''?
This film explores the borders between the different ways a mind can be scattered while in a process of trying to express its thoughts.

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Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident prone mates, Danny and Fraser. Here he meets Beth, a pretty English conservationist passionate about saving endangered mussels from the clutches of pearl thieves in the Scottish Highlands. Falling for her instantly, Ritchie must beat off competition in the form of Highland Ranger Ethan, a smooth talking American Adonis convinced that Beth can't resist his charms forever. After the success of pearl fishing attracts the unwanted attentions of old school Glaswegian mobster Gavin and his work at the centre leads him to question his true motivations, Ritchie must risk life and limb to save the Highlands from ecological disaster and win Beth's heart.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere