Projects

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In October 2005, five young people were kidnapped in the Highlands of Scotland. Stripped and hunted like animals, like the stags they'd been hunting, their ordeal was filmed and released on the internet, where it became myth. An extreme animal rights group claimed responsibility. It was a statement, a warning to others: 'If you hunt animals, we'll hunt you.' Blooded  is a thriller. Combining dramatic reconstruction and talking-head interviews with the survivors, Blooded  tells the compelling story behind one of the most extreme internet viral films of all time. Powerfully acted in the stunning landscape of the Scottish Highlands, this brutal and beautiful tale of extremism reveals a very human story of love, loyalty and betrayal.

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Ozlem is Kurdish. When her village in Turkish Kurdistan was bombed by the Turkish army Ozlem fled and came to London. She lives in the predominantly Turkish area of Dalston with Onur, her Turkish boyfriend. Her work in a Kurdish community centre helping Kurdish asylum seekers heightens the stresses and strains on her relationship with Onur. Far away from home and in a foreign land, she is struggling to make some sense of her own identity.

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Through the use of a secret camera, an out-of-work actor tries to uncover the reasons behind his failing career and takes on an experiment to find out if it is possible to control how others perceive him. Borges and I is a facetious commentary on the relentless recording and sharing of our lives in the wake of the user-generated-content generation.

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A scattered people, the descendants of storied sea-kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction. Yet amidst these valiant, desperate people, hope remains. A royal house endures unbroken from father to son.

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Carroll Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambitions and desires. After endless parties, too many dead end jobs and family arguments Bailey becomes self destructive – resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love. After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise. Things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are others who will stop at nothing to make Bailey’s life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug fuelled parties Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.  

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Adapted from Graham Greene's iconic 1939 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime.   At the heart of the story is the anti-hero Pinkie's relationship with Rose - an apparently innocent young waitress who stumbles on evidence linking Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing that Pinkie commits. After the murder, Pinkie seduces Rose, first in an effort to find out how much she knows and latterly to ensure she will not talk to the police. A love story between a murderer and a witness; can Pinkie trust Rose or should he kill her before she talks to the police? Can Rose trust Pinkie or is she next in line?

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An erotic drama that follows Manchester and Noon as they enjoy a long, hot, summer of love, living in a garage on waste-ground in post industrial Britain. Noon is our narrator, a shy taxidermist who keeps a silent menagerie in the freezer alongside Manchester’s ice pops. Manchester documents their affair. He rejects lighting, the planning of images or choreography in his photography, creating wonderfully charged images with just a couple of cheap, instamatic cameras. When Franny, a wealthy pornographer, launches Manchester on an unsuspecting art world, his success destroys the beauty of their once idyllic life. He loses almost everything and only just wins back the one thing he loves, Noon.  

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Advances in open-source genetic programming allow a young man to grow his very own action hero.

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By the Grace of God depicts the world of Jürgen, a tormented provocateur without a past or background, whose delusions of grandeur lead him to England in search of his place in history and his sovereign right to the throne. A tapestry of feelings and ideas reveals a man who is simultaneously illuminated and tragic, who lives in the cracks of reality.

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For most Londoners, home is here but also somewhere at the other end of a phone line. Calling Home is a gripping portrait of long distance relationships.

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A rare insight into eighty years of cinema through the personal, first-hand recollections of one of Britain's most acclaimed filmmakers. Since 1918 as a child actor in silent movies alongside Dorothy Gish, Jack Cardiff's life and career in cinematography and directing have been inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema: from Dietrich, Powell and Pressburger's, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes, Hitchcock, Huston's The African Queen, Monroe, Bogart, Flynn, Douglas to Schwarzenegger and Stallone. With interviews with over twenty famous actors, directors and producers, including unique behind-the scenes footage from Jack's own personal archive, the documentary is the most detailed film ever made on a cinematographer. Jack is a charismatic storyteller, whose exceptional experiences are both entertaining and inspirational.

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Vince gets more than he bargains for when he dumps his girlfriend Sophie. Again.