Projects with status: Complete

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A window cleaner meets a young, simple girl and accidentally breaks her toy kaleidoscope. After fixing it, he is given the opportunity to see her again.

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One evening, Philippe, a banker, and Marguerite, a prostitute, meet in Geneva’s Red Light district and take a hotel room. So begins a night that will take them to new emotional terrain, question their values, needs and desires, before finally testing a marriage to breaking point. As truths are told and hopes and fears shared, it becomes clear the only way forward for them is to find the courage to shed their masks and stand before one another truly naked. After years of dying a thousand little deaths, this single night is a true test of love, compassion and hope.

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‘It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances’ wrote Oscar Wilde. LAY BARE is a composite portrait of the body, revealing it as it is only rarely seen in the most intimate relationships we have with our family or lovers - erotic and comic, beautiful and vulnerable.

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Black comedy set against the current economic turmoil. Hadrian is a young civil servant tasked with protecting British economic interests in Athens. Maria is his Greek language tutor, an immigrant preparing to take a citizenship test which requires her to display skill in a bizarre number of disciplines.

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One Mile Away tells the human side of gang violence and knife crime, of people who are both perpetrators and victims. These are issues that are hard to understand and seem impossible to resolve. This film is a rare opportunity to do both.

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A lonely homeless man finds his calling by living in a telephone box.

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Filmed over four years, Personal Best follows up-and-coming British sprinters on their journey from the grassroots of athletics to the international stage. The film is both a gripping portrait of the athletes in training and competition, and a deeply personal account of their lives unfolding – revealing victory, defeat, agony, ecstasy and the simple trials of growing up. On the eve of the 2012 Olympics, this film tells the stories of Britain’s young sprinters as they strive towards their dreams. This is an inspiring but genuine portrait of Britain’s youth and a penetrating study of the art of sprinting, peeling back the layers so we can finally understand everything it means to them as they are on the start-line waiting for the gun to fire.

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A lost man reappears to deal with the crippling impact of self-doubt on his relationship.

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Amateur sleuth and murder enthusiast Norman keeps telling his heaven sent wife Margaret there’s something not right about their new neighbour. Norman decides to take this case on for real but as his pursuit quickens so does the sinister neighbours blood lust and now he’s at Norman’s door wanting in!

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Colin the caretaker goes about his usual night watch routine in the school when he witnesses four past pupils breaking in. After sealing the exits and alterting his colleague, Mick, he leaves the safe confides of his office and steps into the dark corridors of the School of the Dead.

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It’s 1970. Bradley and Curtis are 13. They are not friends. They have an empty weekend ahead of them. And nuclear apocalypse looms. Live-action and animation combine in a story of childhood under the Atomic Bomb.

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Swandown is a travelogue and odyssey of Olympian ambition. A poetic film-diary about encounter and culture. It is also an endurance test and pedal-marathon. Andrew Kötting (the filmmaker) and Iain Sinclair (the writer) pedal a plastic swan-shaped pedalo from the seaside in Hastings to Hackney in East London, via the English inland waterways. This action may, in part be seen as an act of ‘dada performance’ or as a response to the spirit of Olympic diversity and ambition. The journey and all that it entails is documented on both film and video and presented as a 90-minute feature length experimental documentary.