Projects with status: Complete

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A vivid portrait of a man whose career transcended politics. Tony Benn reviews the triumphs and the upsets of his personal and his private life. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Set among the gangland clans and firms of South East London, and centring on Mitch, a devoted husband and father who puts his gang back together after his old friend and mentor is beaten up and left to die. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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New Model Army have been one of the biggest underground music artists for over quarter of a century. To their global community of fans they mean everything. Yet mainstream success has so far eluded them. This film is the story of the band and in particular their charismatic and unconventional lead singer songwriter and founder Justin Sullivan

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An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Intimate drama about a man who tries to connect with his dead boyfriend’s immigrant mother.

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On 8th February 2000 at Feltham Young Offenders Institute, Robert Stewart, a known violent racist, was placed in a cell with Zahid Mubarek, eventually leading to Mubarek's murder 6 weeks later. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Michael Doyle is an anti-hero for our times: a natural predator and a complex mix of high-functioning addict and corrupt police officer, always one step ahead of the law. As an influx of ruthless, power-hungry Albanian gangsters makes its bloody mark on London's criminal landscape, Michael's once assured grip starts to fail and his self-destructive behaviour begins to consume him. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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'My Accomplice' is an off-beat comedy about falling in love, set in Brighton, featuring songs and live performances from local bands Transformer, Bob Wants His Head Back and The Mountain Firework Company. An ill-starred search for the village of Wivelsfield, the personal politics of perestroika in the wider context of David Hasselhoff, apricot flapjacks, abruptly unpredictable weather, gathering evidence of a seagull conspiracy, and a small cast of everyday eccentrics that usually don’t make it into films: Bulgarians, adults with learning disabilities, very tall women and elective mutes. In a city of this many vulnerable adults, Frank and Ilse might never have met. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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A ruthless police detective plots to steal a shipment of heroin from a small-time dealer in East London, and eliminate all witnesses.

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Danny wants something more. Expelled from school and living in his grandfather's flat, he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father Danny Senior. Sent to prison for force feeding a judge his own 'syrup' Danny Senior was a legend and Danny is looking for a way to emulate his father's achievements and rise to be top boy. Meanwhile, in Shower Shank prison, legendary football hooligan Dex is about to be released. Dex is on a quest of his own, one of vengeance against his nemesis and rival firm leader The Baron. But when Danny and Dex's paths cross, they embark on a journey as old as hooliganism itself. Dex, Danny and The Hooligan Factory travel the length of the country on a mission to re-establish their firm's glory days. However, the police are closing in and we get a sense that the Hooligan Factory's best days may be behind them, but with Danny on their side, and Dex finding his old form, who knows where this may lead. After all, it's a funny old game.

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The Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history’s most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike. No experts. No politicians. Thirty years on, this is the raw first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. Follow the highs and lows of that life-changing year.

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As editor of The Sunday Times for fourteen years, Sir Harold Evans proved to be the right man in the right place at the right time. In an investigative climate all too rare by today's standards, Evans had the freedom and resources to allow teams of journalists to work on long-term projects, including the exposure of Kim Philby as a Soviet spy. Evans' longest and most hard fought campaign was for the victims of Thalidomide. Originally developed by the Germans in World War II to counter effect sarin gas, post-war the drug was blithely prescribed by British doctors as an antidote to morning sickness, unwittingly leading to tens of thousands of children being born with serious defects. The Sunday Times' fight to win compensation for their struggling families would take more than a decade, as Evans tenaciously pursued the drug companies through the English courts and beyond. Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 - World premiere