Projects matching: Just

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The love story between a Woman and a... Spider!

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The documentary About a Band features Edinburgh's Columcille Ceilidh Band which includes musicians with learning disabilities. The filmmakers follow the band playing at a variety of venues in Scotland as well as at workshops for people with learning disabilities. Interviews with the band members show their working relationship and the creative tensions that exist within any band. The joyous sounds of the ceilidh music are interwoven with these personal tales, giving a true sense of just how important the band is in their lives.The film includes an interview with Ian McCalman of Scotland's top folk band McCalmans and a sequence in which distinguished Scottish folk musician and composer Phil Cunningham plays with the band at a rehearsal.

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Meet John Foster: Loyal husband, devoted father, loving son and Being Sold. It seemed like a good idea at the time, three months into his redundancy, following a blazing row with his wife and in the midst of a particularly long drinking session, John Foster lists himself for sale on an online auction site. Flattery, coercion and a strange individual called Chris, his best friend, gives news reporter Maia Long unrivaled access to the biggest story of her fledgling career. This is an opportunity she can't miss and she will do anything to ensure that she doesn't. The drama/comedy features a mixture of established British names alongside rising stars. Shot innovatively in just two days and helmed by award-winning director Phil Hawkins.

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Imagine the kind of twilight world in which the characters from a bygone British-made space-opera, might find themselves making a much-needed pit stop at a Motorway Service Station at 2:45am on a nondescript weekday morning. 'Bizarre', (Heat Magazine). 'Surreal', (The Daily Mirror). 'Sly, smart, and outrageous. A short break well worth stopping off for', (The Guardian). 'Star Trek with a Ken Loach twist', (Starburst Magazine). 'Stunning, weird and lovely', (BBC).

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Just when you think you've fallen as far as possible, you fall that little bit further. A twisted and dark drama/thriller which shows love and betrayal in their most extreme forms.

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While most of us sleep, the heroes and villains from the Golden Age of televised British wrestling grapple against the odds to make it home safely from a night out on the tiles. Set predominantly onboard an iconic red London double-decker bus, this is a journey into a colourfully skewed world of oversized men, ill-fitting leotards, Boston-Crabs, Half-Nelsons and the unforgiving whims of the British public transport system.

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'Frank' is a black comedy about a man who just doesn't fit in. He's fallen between the cracks he is always trying to avoid. We join him on his personal journey to hell and back, accompanied by a neurotic and opinionated couple of corpses and the map reader of his life and only friend, a young girl called Sasha.

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Based on the life of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, Fulll Firearms presents the story of Imelda, a woman haunted by the victims of the guns sold in her father’s company. She uses her inheritance to work with an architect who builds a house for these ghosts. When a group of people squat her half finished building Imelda is convinced that they are the ghosts that she expected. The narrative touches upon themes of displacement and storytelling, and stands in the tradition of melodrama. The characters find themselves constantly having to adjust their expectations of each other so that they might be able to communicate within each other’s logic. In her films, Emily Wardill creates situations that examine conditions of precarity in society and how these affect people’s relationships with each other. Her films are fostered by improvisations and workshop sessions, that are set up by the artist to develop themes and characters in a collaborative manner. “The house in the film produces an echo, because those who occupy it articulate their voices in relation to the making and writing of a history. Tracing the echoes of actions through the production of social spaces does not remain solely within the diegesis of the film. Instead, it extends to the exchange initiated by Wardill with her collaborators as they produce a film together, and also attempt to implicate the viewer in a film that is also a body – one that is constantly living and growing.” - Jacob Korczynski, 2011

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Newly homeless, Gracie is about to commit suicide. But at the last moment, as she hovers over the railings of Waterloo Bridge, a young woman, Ellie, runs onto the bridge. She begs Gracie to help her escape from a pursuer who’s just yards behind. Shocked out of her dark purpose, Gracie helps Ellie, and they escape. Walking the empty streets, Gracie thinks the threat is past and a tentative relationship begins between the girls. But as she finds out more about Ellie, Gracie realises just how vulnerable they still are.

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An intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Axis of Light, is a poignant observation, through the work of eight leading artists; Rachid Koraichi, Jananne al-Ani, Etel Adnan, Shirin Neshat, Youssef Nabil, MonaHatoum, Mona Saudi and Ayman Baalbaki to the beauty and mystery of the Middle East which is often ignored, especially today where strife, anger and violence demand centre stage in our media…where stereotypes and prejudices distort our view of this region. Through their eyes, the film moves between their worlds…between the worlds of both the East and the West and the past and present…exploring the meaning of their existence, identity, conflicts of sexuality the isolation of woman and the fragility of home and place. The history they have and the future they can lead us towards. It is a story of hope, but one that recognises the power of expression often against the odds.

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'Is this free?' 'Yes, of course'. A standard question followed by a standard response. For most of us – just another part of our daily lives that we quickly pass-by without a second thought. But for one man it is something more – a chance to communicate, challenge, and engage.