Projects

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Oz, an irresponsible man baby, nearly misses his girlfriend’s Graduation because he’s too busy playing with toys. Before he can make amends, a mysterious package arrives containing a mangy old hand puppet. Despite the pressing need to be there for his girlfriend, Oz can’t resist trying on the puppet first and instantly has his soul imprisoned in its soft foam body. Oz is left to contemplate the sorry state of his life choices while his human body dies before his eyes. If he’s to have any hope of saving his relationship, and surviving, he’ll have to do the one thing he’s always avoided: grow up. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 - Midnight Short Competition - World premiere

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A smartphone feature exploring motherhood, filmed over 20 years by BAFTA award-winning British director Victoria Mapplebeck. At the age of 38, Victoria Mapplebeck found herself single, pregnant and broke. Unable to combine motherhood with freelance directing, she was forced to abandon her career in TV, instead turning the camera on herself and her son, Jim. Victoria first began documenting their lives with her old DVCAM before shooting almost daily on five generations of smartphones, from the iPhone 6 to the iPhone 15. She recorded hundreds of hours of footage, capturing each twist and turn in Jim’s life, from the thumbs-up he gave her during her first scan, to his first day at college. MOTHERBOARD is a complex, personal and unsentimental portrait of a mother-son relationship from birth to adulthood, exploring the ways in which Victoria and Jim navigate two generations of absent fathers and Victoria’s breast cancer diagnosis when Jim was just 13. The warm, playful and sometimes strained relationship between Victoria and Jim plays out against a backdrop of family life unfiltered. MOTHERBOARD is the antidote to the judgmental and unrealistic expectations we have about motherhood, creating an honest, funny and relatable film for any mother who has wept tears of both joy and frustration. Official selection CPH:DOX Film Festival 2024 - World Premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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When her husband goes shopping for a bathmat but instead jumps off a multi storey car park, widow Jenna seeks answers from his favourite sex chat line.

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In this anime inspired short, Cora’s life changes forever after a vengeful Spirit appears, growing from her neck. The Spirit tries to possess Cora’s body, but over time they form a dysfunctional relationship.

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In Europe's oldest city, Plovdiv, Bulgaria an old man who used to spy on his neighbours for the secret police, continues to do it over 30 years later as a pastime. He becomes convinced that a British man who lives opposite him is responsible for the disappearance of a Couchsurfer. It further becomes complicated when the foreigner starts a relationship with his grandniece. As he tries to uncover the truth he also is confronted by the change in culture from one of people trying to keep their private lives secret, to one where people are sharing their every move publicly. Along the way, his complex past reveals itself.

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Having depleted their wells, off-shore platforms await final decommissioning. Nearby on land, a yearly burning of oil takes place.

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A poor young man struggles to win over his interviewer after a devastating bombshell is dropped.

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Anne is a young outcast desperately trying to hide her pain from the world. Tormented by a doppelgänger that only she can see, Anne becomes less and less able to contain her despair. As rivalry between the pair ensues, Anne attempts to get rid of the doppelgänger forever, leading to disastrous consequences.

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Unfolding at the nexus of immersive technology, creative storytelling and wellbeing, SOUL PAINT delves into the richness of the embodied human experience. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 - XR Experience Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Combing anonymous documentary testimony with imagined creative scenes to tell the stories of those who have called the oldest queer support line in the UK, seeking guidance on everything from where to find the nearest leather club to how to come out, start a family or mend a broken heart. The film is a love letter to queer memory and possibility, LGBTQ+ community and care, and the power of collective imagination. Official Selection Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival 2024

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UK Airport Immigration Officer Sarah begins to question her role and institution when an unidentified passenger (whom Sarah believes to be an illegal immigrant) dies on an arrival flight from Egypt. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Iraqi medical anthropologist Dr. Omar Dewachi unearths how Acinetobacter baumannii went from a benign bacteria, to a “perfect killer”, also known by its US moniker ‘Iraqibacter’ or the ‘invisible enemy’, and how the consequences of war can drive pathogens, which threaten the viability of antibiotics, and our health, globally. Official Selection CPH:DOX 2024 - World premiere