Projects

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A haunted young man travels to a remote island to reconnect with his father and confront the traumatic experience they shared ten years prior that transformed their relationship. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Virtual reality creator Hiyu is facing kidney failure. His online friend Photographotter travels from New York City to Stockholm to be a live donor to Hiyu, revealing a lifesaving friendship formed in VR. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Two teenage girls have to confront what they've left behind, before they can come to terms with where they're going. 15-year-olds Doe and Muna are going on a trip. Two girls from a dead-end seaside town, they board the train to the airport excitedly. Quiet, watchful Doe hasn’t gone anywhere since arriving in the UK the age of 3 as a refugee at from Somalia. Badass Muna, of Pakistani heritage, is the dominant force... These girls are not going on holiday, but to Istanbul, to be met by a chaperone who will take them to the Syrian border to start a new life. Disaster strikes in Istanbul when their chaperone doesn’t show. Out of their depth, they formulate a new plan to continue their journey alone. Experiencing different slices of life in the city, their resolve, faith and friendship are tested. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025

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1973. Married couple, Daphne and Darcy Davenport, are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. Here, a strange child enters their lives. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Set in 1723 London, where Thomas Neville has to hide out in a molly house - essentially the proto-queer clubs of Georgian Britain - after being caught cruising in the public toilets. Once inside, though, Thomas meets an underground community preparing for a night of revelry. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Charles, a strange lottery winner who lives alone on a secluded island, tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite singer, Herb McGwyer, to perform at a special, private event. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025

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In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2025 - European premiere Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025 Official Selection Hot Docs International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2025

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Convention and sexuality are explored through slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange. Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - International premiere

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Struggling to process the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, a young father’s hold on reality crumbles as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons. What begins as a terrifying haunting, evolves into a battle of wills between a grieving family and their uninvited, unpredictable house-guest and tormentor; a man-like Crow, seemingly brought to life from the pages of Dad’s work as an illustrator. Based on the award-winning novel 'Grief Is the Thing With Feathers' by Max Porter. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - European premiere Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes - the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle - a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point. The true crime genre’s ubiquity is driven by people’s endless fascination, disgust, and - bizarrely -search for comfort in genre conventions that still have the ability to generate complex emotions despite their predictability and familiarity. In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, filmmaker and multimedia artist Charlie Shackleton dissects the true crime genre by recreating it. Using Bay Area landscapes, archival material, reenactments, film and TV clips, and voice-over to walk the viewer through what his film would have been like and why, this film is a captivating and entertaining experience that will forever change how you watch your next murder programme. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection True/False Film Fest 2025 Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - Best of the Fests Official Selection First Look 2025 (New York, Museum of the Moving Image) Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025 Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025

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KING OF THE APOCALYPSE takes us into the heart of the American militia movement with Dakota Adams, the de-radicalized son of Stewart Rhodes – founder of the Oath Keepers who is now serving 18 years in prison for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack in 2021. With exclusive access to Rhodes, and framed by the unique perspective of his estranged family, we tell the story of the enigmatic militant leader’s origins, his turbulent family life, and his descent into paranoia and extremism. With Rhodes in prison, even more radical militia leaders are emerging, such as Mike Dunn of the Boogaloo Bois, who believes that January 6 was just a dress rehearsal for the real civil war that's coming. Mike is the antithesis of gentle Dakota. While one young American claws his way out from extremism, we watch the other being sucked deeper in. As we immerse ourselves in their ideas and beliefs, we reveal the underpinnings of political violence and gain essential insight into where America could be heading.

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Flesh as film, and film as flesh... An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat - and into the past - they unearth much more than mere relics. The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection. A queer eco-horror which reflects on what it means to bury, to archive, to capture, to unearth. Shot in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, the film becomes both a lament and call to action for local peat-bog conservation. Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2025