This film follows comedian Janey Godley on her 2023 Not Dead Yet Tour, after her diagnosis for ovarian cancer. Janey tours with her best mate Shirley, and daughter comedian Ashley Storrie. Intercut with her stand up we tell the story of her extraordinary life, told with her trademark take-no-prisoners honesty and dark humour.
Janey grew up in poverty in Glasgow’s East End, her mother was an alcoholic. As a child Janey was sexually abused by her uncle. Janey tells the story of her mother's horrific murder, when Janey was 21, revisiting the river where her mother’s body was found.
Age 19 Janey married into a notorious family of Glasgow gangsters, running a successful pub for them. When she and her husband fell out with his family Janey reinvented herself as a comedian. Janey talks about the sense of freedom tinged with guilt that she experienced when she became a comic, choosing to work away from her young daughter.
Throughout the film Janey deals with the grim reality of stage 3 cancer, along with the highs and lows of touring, ending in an emotional show at Glasgow's 3,000-seater SEC.
Official selection Glasgow International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
A fictional short film which explores the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession and the power in the return/retrieval. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the ‘Origin Story’.
As Sonnyboy, a young Romani man, struggles to come to terms with his father’s passing, a series of events threaten the family and their way of life.
Official Selection AKE DIKHEA? International Festival of Romani Film 2024
A journey through the memories of a young girl struggling to come to terms with the complexity of her mixed-raced identity.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
A quest to find the truth behind a thirty year old memory, along the way connecting the dots between family, community, the power of place and the concept of home.
An overwhelmed woman listens to a sleep ambience app to unwind before bed, but when the sounds eerily begin to blend with reality, she suspects it has conjured something frightening into her room...
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
An aimless teen and his underage girlfriend sell illegally brewed cocktails, 'Nutcrackers', on a beach in The Bronx to get by.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
After mum’s latest psychotic episode, a dysfunctional family of three tries their hardest to holiday together.
Official Selection Angers European First Film Festival 2025
A mild-mannered care worker’s peaceful existence is disturbed when an intimidating party animal moves into the house next door, a property that her parents inhabited for decades before their recent passing. Subjected to endless sleepless nights, she is gradually drawn into an escalating war of attrition that will test her resolve and her sanity to the limit.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
