Tibet. March 2008. The biggest uprising since China took control in 1959, sweeps through the country. Meanwhile, Tibetans in exile march on their homeland, determined to support their countrymen. This is a year of dramatic possibilities for Tibet. For more than 20 years, the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and political leader, has pursued his Middle Way Approach: giving up the goal of Tibet's independence in return for genuine autonomy. But China has consistently rejected his proposal. Now, more and more Tibetans are questioning his strategy. Can the Dalai Lama's path of peace and compromise find a solution for Tibet? Or will the voices calling for independence prevail?
Francis Cooper had always assumed his father would die before his mother. Emily Maddison never thought she would be the woman responsible for ending anybody's life. Craig MacKay always believed his girlfriend dismissing him for his lack of responsibility was nonsense.
1989 in the UK saw the birth of a new youth culture. Driven by a media hate campaign, the British Government acted against it by funding a special Police Unit, whose sole purpose was to crush it. They Call it Acid is the definitive document of the Acid House era.
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom.
Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadors, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
White Rooms comissioned by the Sonic arts Network as a multi-screen sound visual film project premiered at The ICA, London.
A complex narrative following the daily lives of four main characters who are all unknowingly connected by 6 degress of seperation.
Their unconcsious action affect each other in ways they are not even aware of.
Each character is emotionally triggered in reaction to others' actions and ends up in a noisy and aggresive emotional space called the white room.
A community based docuementary that explores the influential history of the English market town, of Lutterworth, in Leicestershire. The intention of the film was to create an awareness and to celebrate the influential past of the town, exploring the folk that have worked and resided in Lutterworth.
In doing this film takes a look at the how the town has in the past shaped the world we live in today. Whittle On talks about Sir Frank Whittle who worked tirelessly at Lutterworth's Ladywood Works. He eventually went onto develop one of the most important inventions of modern times; the jet engine.
Amongst other historical figures Whittle On also discusses the work of John Wycliffe who with help from others is thought to have translated the bible from Latin to English.
An enormous cliff top, blue sky, multiple deaths and a man keeping a meticulous note of it all.
This man lives a relatively peaceful and tidy existence, filling his time by watching others ending theirs as they jump from the top of the cliff.
Soon, however, he finds circumstance plotting against him as he is drawn ever nearer to the edge of the cliff himself.
A dying psychic, consumed with bitterness, corrupts the naïve inhabitants of a small, sea-side village and in the process, alienates her daughter. Can the dying commune with the dead?
Noir-influenced black comedy.
Thank You Skinhead Girl is a documentary which explores the filmmakers experience of being in care and becoming a skinhead girl during the late 70’s early 80’s.
It gives insight into a sub-youth culture that has been one of the most misunderstood, of all the youth groups. The film shows the historical rise of the skinhead movement, the fashion, music and the gang structure in Oxfordshire UK at the time.
Through the voice of the filmmaker we are taken into the personal reflections of that time, which shows a working class girl finding refuge within the skinhead movement. A place where she grew, survived, thrived and eventually learnt a very hard, uncomfortable lesson through violence.
The film features music from Reggae legends the ‘Symarip’, Oxford Ska band The Inflatables and Welsh Oi! band The Oppressed.
This film has been enabled by Screen South Community Projects Fund and OFVM – Film Oxford Production Equipment Award.
'Best Documentary' 8th International Short Film Festival Balchik, Bulgaria 2010, nominated 'Best Film' Portobello Film Festival 2009.
After a road traffic accident Gerry awakens into a nightmare. Lost in the bowels of the hospital he follows the fragments of his fractured memory, trying to piece together how he came to be there and find the way back to the woman he loves.
Alex, a young and unemployed actor, is chosen by a film-maker to make a documentary.
When Alex lands a part in a stage play about a film-maker turned serial-killer Alex’s life takes an unexpected turn. Strange and violent things happen to him…but the ‘documentary’ is starting to look good.
By the time he realises that this is all too much to be random it is too late for Alex to escape his close-up.
