Projects

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Filmmaker Julien Temple chronicles the transformation of a self-described 'mouthy little git', born John Mellor, into an antiestablishment icon known to the world as Joe Strummer. In his latest documentary, Temple uncovers the myth behind the front man of the seminal punk band the Clash.

Through previously unearthed interviews with Strummer himself and recollections of those who knew him best, Temple reveals a complex man who used his music as a bullhorn for his conscience, as well as a means to educate others about the injustices of the world. The film includes live concert footage spanning Strummer's career and tapes of his BBC radio program, all of which provide a fitting soundtrack to his distinctive and storied existence.
 

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Johnny (Vinnie Jones), trying to escape a violent past in Ireland, hides out in Brixton, London's toughest West Indian neighborhood; but when his former comrade and mentor Flynn escapes from Brixton prison determined to derail the Irish peace process, Johnny faces not only being dragged back into violence and away from his new love (Samantha Mumba), but also igniting a simmering feud with his 'Yardie' neighbour.
 
Questions of race, morality and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock and soul.

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Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. Now working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the Mob track Stephanie down and persuade her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge!

Inspired by true events, Journal of a Contract Killer is the gripping story of a woman driven to turn on her paymasters with devastating consequences.

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Joe Spratt has just been laid off from his mining job along with the rest of his town but with the help of the world famous explorer Professor Bathandler and a number of other experts set upon a journey to the moon not only to save his hometown, but the whole of the British Empire! Who could have known what they were to find living on the Moon and the people back on Earth that didn't want the gallant heroes to return in one piece.

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In 1976 four young men from ruined post-industrial Manchester, England went to see the Sex Pistols. They formed a band called Joy Division. It was 'a right laugh'. Three years later it was a matter of art, life and death. Thirty years later they are enjoying a larger audience and more influence than ever before with a profound legacy that resonates fiercely in today’s heavily careerist music industry and over-mediated pop culture. Featuring the unprecedented participation of the surviving band members, this documentary tells their story of beauty and loss in the city.

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K fights his way up through the ranks of organised crime, his every move dogged by a mysterious and powerful opponent who'll stop at nothing to find K and the secret he unwittingly protects.

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A unique collaboration between acclaimed young British writer and director Greg Hall and critically renowned composer and musician Steve Martland. Kapital is a gothic and uncompromising look at the darker crevasses of human nature and society. Following a cross section of characters lives, interweaved in a mosaic form over the turbulent course of one day, as they all deal with the demons and angels that haunt their harsh realities. An apocalyptic vision of modern day existence.

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Kill Kill Faster Faster is the story of Joe One-Way, a man serving a life stretch for the passion murder of his teenage bride Kimba. Inspired to write by Clinique, his Jamaican cellmate, mentor and lover, Joe pens the hard-boiled play White Man: Black Hole. New York film producer, Markie Mann, wanting to make the play into a film, pulls strings to have Joe paroled and contracts him to write the screenplay for the movie. Fleur is Markie Mann’s beautiful wife, a one-time hooker and ex-con, who can’t help but fall for kindred spirit Joe. Their attraction is irresistible. Fleur is Joe’s salvation and soul-mate. They are propelled on a journey of obsession, guilt, and lust as Joe struggles between the pull of heroin, his violent impulses and the desire to redeem himself in the eyes of his estranged twin daughters. A bad man trying to be good, the more he tries to do right, the more goes wrong. He is sent in a tail spin. Out of control, Joe One-Way soon discovers that life on the outside may be too dangerous even for him.

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A universal story of disenfranchisement and search for identity. In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home - but does so in a coffin. Jackie's five friends reunite at his wake where they are forced face up to the reality of their alienation as long term emigrants who no longer have any real place to call home.
 
Directors Guild of America / Directors Guild of Ireland Award to Tom Collins.

Kings winner of Five Irish Film And Television Awards, including Special Irish Language Award.

Kings winner of Kodak Best Cinematography at Hamptons Film Festival.

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An idle kid, growing up in London, alienated from family and friends, passes the time away.

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Blissfully happy in her new marriage, Emma gives up a successful career on Wall Street to return to England and give her six-year-old son a new life. After moving into an impressive mansion outside London, Emma finds out that she is pregnant again. Everything seems to be perfect. But soon, Emma begins feeling uneasy. When left alone, the house seems to be speaking to her in strange voices. Emma’s dream of a perfect life starts turning into a nightmare. Despite her pleas for help, her husband grows more and more distant. Alarmed by a series of strange and terrifying happenings, Emma is convinced that the key to unlocking Parkside’s secret lies deep in the woods. She starts to act less and less rationally, and the once ‘in control’ Emma turns into a paranoid shadow of her former self. She has to discover that the truth of Parkside Lodge rests not in its past or future, but in the terrifying present.

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The life of seven humans seen by the same humans in the future and in heaven.