Projects with status: Complete

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From the Oscar-winning team behind 'Man on Wire' comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the mid-1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.   Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

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A film about beer and betting in Camden Town. Friends meet to bet on the Grand National and end up on a Pub crawl around Camden town.

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As the plague of teenage violence and anti-social behaviour spreads uncontrolled, society fights back with a radical plan: a revolutionary school to rehabilitate those beyond help. But what are their methods and are they a step too far? After getting drawn into street violence, a rebellious youth and his sister Dana are sent by their concerned parents to a radical new school where anti-social children rapidly become compliant. Vee, a newly arrived teacher, is spooked by these ‘Stepford’ teens and grows suspicious, as does Dana whose brother has changed beyond recognition. With the aid of Peter, a local reporter and Bobby, another pupil seemingly unaffected by the school, Vee and Dana set out to uncover the truth behind the McCarthy Institute. But their investigations are cut short as, in true ‘Body Snatcher,’ style they find themselves hunted down by pupils and teachers alike until Dana is the only girl left with a mind of her own. Even by seeking refuge at home, Dana is faced with one final impossible dilemma.

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Reagan follows the 40th president's rise from small-town lifeguard to revered architect of the modern world. This definitive look at man and myth investigates how Reagan's homespun political vision fueled a seismic career, one whose reverberations still shape American life.

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Damian and Mark, two bored 16-year-olds, long to escape their tiny forgotten village high on the Northern moors of England. They spend their time idly taking pot-shots at sheep and passing cars with Damian's air rifle. But everything changes when they covertly witness a large thug and a businessman meeting in a deserted lay-by to exchange drugs and money. The boys unwittingly cause the drug deal to go horribly wrong, and the thug kills his cocaine-dealing 'business associate'. When the thug flees the scene, Damian and Mark seize the opportunity to steal the drug dealer's classic American Cadillac, together with his gun, a sackful of cash and a kilo of cocaine.  Now all they have to do is buy a spade to bury the drug dealer's body (stashed in the trunk), appease Damian's mouthy girlfriend, lose their virginity, get off the moors, and head South to Spain. Easier said than done when the killer's in pursuit and you're - Rebels Without a Clue.

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The medical students at Forthaven General Hospital study hard and party harder, until a cruel prank accidently puts the facility's creepy janitor into a deep coma. But when one responsible student (Arielle Kebbel of The Uninvited and The Grudge 2) tries to revive the degenerate loner with an experimental injection, she instead sends his brainwaves berserk. Will a sudden spree of side kicks now claim the guilty one-by-one, or has the ultimate out-of-body experience ushered in a bloodbath of brutal revenge?

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1944: after the failure of the D-day landings, a German counterattack lands on British soil. Within a month, half of Britain is occupied. Sarah Lewis, a 26 year-old farmer's wife, wakes to find her husband Tom has disappeared. On the same morning the other women in the isolated Welsh border valley of Olchon discover their husbands have gone, too. Assuming their men have joined the resistance, the women in this tiny community pull together, taking on the running of the farms themselves and waiting, desperate for news. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of its mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups into co-operation, a fragile mutual dependency develops. Sarah begins a faltering acquaintance with the patrol's commanding officer, Albrecht. But as the chaos of the war presses in on them, Albrecht feelings for Sarah deepen and he confesses to her the secret of his mission. Soon the valley’s delicate state of harmony begins to falter and the women and soldiers are forced to make decisions that will change their lives forever.

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In a last-ditch attempt to save their failing marriage after the stillbirth of their first child, Kate, a journalist, and Martin, an architect, escape London for a retreat to the beautiful, yet remote and unpopulated Blackholme Island, which is off the west coast of Scotland. Fairweather Cottage is a place where they once shared a romantic holiday and the island holds fond memories of happier times. Kate and Martin arrive by boat, it's autumn and the rocky barren moors are blown by freezing winds and the before they've even settled in, the generator and CB radio communication start to fail. Their relationship is already fragile and anxieties are pushed higher when they lose all contact with the mainland and after a heavy storm, an injured man is washed up on the shore. Dressed in military fatigues and carrying a gun, the mysterious stranger regains consciousness and identifies himself as a British soldier called Private Jack Corman and he soon reveals that he carries a deadly message - an airborne virus is sweeping Europe and all their lives are under threat unless they take drastic action. He insists that the only way to avoid the fatal disease is to seal themselves in the cottage.

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Robinson in Ruins is an account of a journey by a wandering, erratic scholar, through landscapes in the south of England. Its fictional narration begins: 'When a man called Robinson was released from Edgcott open prison, he made his way to the nearest city, and looked for somewhere to haunt'. Robinson ‘believed he could communicate with a network of non-human intelligences determined to preserve the possibility of life’s survival on the planet’ and ‘was equipped with an ancient ciné camera, with which he made images of his everyday surroundings’. He surveyed the centre of the island on which he was shipwrecked: 'The location,' he wrote, 'of a Great Malady, that I shall dispel, in the manner of Turner, by making picturesque views, on journeys to sites of scientific and historic interest.' The film consists of these views. The cinematography began in January 2008 and continued until November, just after the peak of that year’s global banking crisis. The film’s unplanned journey ‘rediscovers’ several locations associated with capitalism’s development since the 16th century and resistance to it. Vanessa Redgrave’s narration includes references to the deepening economic crisis, climate change and mass-extinction, but manages to reach an optimistic conclusion.

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A Yorkshire based British comedy, centered around a group of misfit characters, based predominantly in Wakefield.

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The Rule Of Thumb is the story of a Mother and Sons unhealthy and clinging relationship. Neil Barrow a forty something Mummy's boy attempts to make his Mum proud leading to a disastrous stand off at the local school.

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Originally from Poland, Basia lives and works in London. After a hypnotic session with her psychologist Edward Stanton she taps into a part of the mind that should never be meddled with. With the natural balance of her existence becoming increasingly unstable, Basia's world becomes very strange and eventually spirals into a perpetual nightmare oscillating erratically around time and space. A traumatic experience from her past combined with her fragmented and distorted present, push her mind and soul to it's limits and beyond.