The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust). The story revolves around former soldier Sam Norwood who takes a job as a prison officer when he returns from Iraq and becomes exposed to the underworld of prison culture - including corrupt guards and drug trafficking.
In this evocative and unique experimental documentary, award winning filmmaker Jill Daniels explores her memories of violence 30 years ago hitchhiking through the Basque country. She searches for the places she hopes will jolt her fading memory. Merging past and present, documentary and fiction she recreates her journey. Diving further into this world she discovers other women, Maria and Aitziber, also changed by violence. Maria is a photographer who lives alone and has survived a car crash but her niece was killed. Her dead father was sentenced to death in the civil war in Spain and she holds close his prison diary. Aitziber is a young Basque nationalist who spent five years in prison and for five days after her arrest was tortured by the Spanish police. Together these stories, build a mosaic of impressions of the past and present. As Daniels comes to the end of her journey she realizes she can't be free of the past. She has come full circle.
The chilling story of a middle class man whose desperate weathering of the economic crisis ends with the arrival one night of a debt collector with an offer that surely cannot be turned down.
The Wayfaring Stranger is a touching story about how two complete strangers meet in extraordinary circumstances and change the course of their lives forever.
Five teenage friends are taken hostage by a vengeful psychopath and forced to play a ‘spin the bottle’ party game with life or death consequences.
A party for the 'cool kids' celebrating the end of their first year at university turns nasty when a game of 'Truth or Dare' ends in humiliation for ultra-rich social misfit, Felix. Months later, Felix's older brother Justin organizes a private party for the friends at the aristocratic family's country estate. Once the fun and games have commenced, Justin reveals that Felix has in fact hanged himself, and that they are there to explain why. Justin's army training and sociopathic tendencies turn Truth or Dare into a brutal game of torture - turning friends against each other with corrosive consequences.
He and She fell in love. She was banished, so now he waits. They promised to meet halfway if she could ever escape from below.
Yet now she’s arrived, he can barely look at her.
A story of love lost, found, returned and burned.
A 75 minute piece of Artist Cinema.
A re-representation of self. The focus of this externalisation is exorcism of increasing toxic thought captured, tamed and framed. An individual defined as something enclosed, divided, consisting of two parts, primitive and educated. In turmoil, the dual being stands both in the shared world and it’s own.
A Man's Story profiles Ozwald Boateng, his design, his business, his personal life. Charismatic, glamorous, hard-working and very humanly flawed, Boateng's personal and professional triumphs and set-backs are the fascinating heart of this film which is set against a back-drop of models, movie stars and fabulous locations.
As a black and heterosexual man Boateng breaks the stereotypes of the fashion industry.
He is his own original.
A Man's Story has been filmed by director Varon Bonicos since 1998.
