Projects with status: Complete

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With the British government promoting an inaccurate revisionist version of the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act many are determined to ensure that Truth prevails in 2007.

With contributions from community activists, project workers, teachers, historians and the business community, this documentary confronts the myths about British slavery, presents the true history of the Maafa and African resistance and examines the politics of the government's bicentenary celebrations.

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A gang of local youths crash a high-class party at a country manor only to discover that the modern gentry are now hunting the working class instead of foxes.

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What will David do when Marina starts crying? A man's encounter with a prostitute goes tragically wrong.

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'Marvin was born with a hole in his head, he wasn't born stupid, he wasn't born dead'. Narrated by Steve Coogan (I'm Alan Partridge, Coffee and Cigarettes) with music composed by Jeff Mercel of Mercury Rev, Marvin is a short, slightly twisted, animated film based on Frank Pudney's original idea.

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1856, The Crimea. Mary Seacole thinks back on past action to evaluate and understand why she built the British Hotel. In the process of reflection she recreates for the audience what life was like at Blundell Hall in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Deep in a cornish village a little girl Eloise sits reading her book she's had since birth when shes distracted by movement from within the Reading Room Book Shop across the street. Inquisitive, she investigates but what she discovers is a little more than she bargained for and Mrs Peppercorn shows her how magical her world can really be.

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Swimming through a meadow collecting mushrooms, a girl meets her wildness in the form of a hare. Bang! They are shot. They tumble into the earth. The girl wrestles with her wildness to subdue him and to pay for her mushrooms.

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Mute Swan is a film about social rejection, indentity crisis and sexuality.

The story focuses on Benny, a shy, reclusive, lonely young man, who feels out of place, uncomfortable, otherworldly among his friends and family. His efforts to interact with anyone are limp.

The film intends to explore the beauty and subtly of ambiguity.

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My Dad & Spike tells the poignant story of how sometimes it's the unforeseen changes in life that often matter most.

In a suburban London street, lives 7 year old Ali, his Mum, Dad and fish Spike. All his life, when darkness comes and everyone is asleep, Ali has been comforted by the sound of his Dad's loud snoring next door. But one day the snoring stops.

For Mum and Dad it's a huge relief but for Ali, it sparks a series of fears not only about the darkness of the night but about the health of his fish.
My Dad & Spike is a film about the quiet intricacies of family life.

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A female gure tells us the possible journeys of gures in this gothic space, playing all the parts of girl, bride, woman.

A dress is stolen, returned, rebuffed. A dialogue of rising and falling, returning and escape.

This is Not Jane.

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Standing on the edge of a flat roof, a man weighs up the consequences of his next step. Not distraught or hysterical, although clearly waiting for something, he seems resigned to the action he is about to take. He checks his phone one more time.

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The first documentary by the British based non-profit Ya Basta Films is Please Mind The Gap. A look into the increasingly popular and often controversial Gap Year Industry in Ghana.

Thousands of volunteers flood into Ghana every year and pay to volunteer in schools, orphanages, care homes and hundreds of other places, but what sort of impact do they make? Do they make a difference? And who really benefits?

Please Mind The Gap has been released online and is available to watch for free at www.yabastafilms.org