Projects with status: Complete

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Blaze Films first production is Into The Dark: Exploring the Horror Film a feature length far-reaching documentary exploration into the horror fantasy genre and the reasons behind the scares. The comprehensive documentary includes interviews of Guillermo del Toro, Clive Barker, Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, Stuart Gordon, Neil Marshall, Simon Hunter, Paul Andrew Williams, Adam Green, Chris Smith, Jaume Balguero, Tom Holland, Mick Garris, Chris Fowler and Doug Bradley amongst many others.

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Juarez is situated across the Rio Grand from the US city of El Paso, Texas. Its over one million desperately poor inhabitants have mostly travelled from the Mexican interior to make Juarez the largest border town on earth. But why do some many people come to this city? To work in the poorly paid US based factories or maquiladora’s as they are locally known; to illegally cross the border, into the US, in search of the American dream; to traffic drugs for the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug gangs; Or maybe it’s just to Murder! This truly will be, your ‘City of Dreams’.

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A young man struggles with the fact that his girlfriend, upon returning from a trip to see her estranged Indian family, has unexpectedly turned into a samosa.

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Legendary jazz guitar great Pat Martino underwent brain surgery that saved his life but erased all memory, emotion and the ability to play. THere he shouldhave remained yet, after years in the wilderness, he came back with such astonishing power and artistry as to bring into question all the known medical facts. Neuropsycologist Paul Broks explores the mysteries of memory, self and creativity underlying the human condition. Martino provides the sublime soundtrack.    

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Mayomi lost her husband to the Tamil Tigers, her mother and home to the Tsunami, and is now the only female member of her family, single-handedly caring for her disabled father, her alcoholic brother and his abandoned six-year old son. She is also still homeless and knows that, in a country crippled by bureaucracy and corruption, this is unlikely to change. The film follows Mayomi as she struggles to overcome the obstacles in and outside her family. Her optimism and courage drives her forward and also provides the heart of this moving and intimate film.   An intimate portrait of a young woman struggling to gain independence, whilst holding her troubled family together.

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Mi Piace is a film of made with the documentation of one performance to camera, where during a spurious singing rehearsal, the singer's body is progressively bound to test the changes in the voice. The film leaves ambiguity as to the exact nature of the events, which are presented as a diverse collection of documentation, hence suggesting a history. The singer is asked to perform repeatedly a popular aria (O Mio Babbino Caro), at each repetition (itself interrupted in mid flow at different points) the singer's body is bound, starting from the ankles, and proceeding upwards. The section isolated in the soundtrack Mi Piace, is part of the aria and means  like' or in its original context 'I would like to'.

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Teenagers hang out by the floodlit running tracks at night.

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Drawn from life and from my memories of working in an ice cream cafe in Cornwall, these images form an animated landscape that takes the viewer on a journey through fire and ice cream and micro-dramas between strangers on a sweltering holiday beach.

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This documentary follows a year in the life Isabela and Irlan two aspiring ballet dancers who engage daily in a clash between two worlds: rich and poor, black and white. Ballet is an art form steeped in the history of the wealthy white elite, and many feel that the likes of Irlan Santos da Silva and Isabela Coracy, two black kids from poor backgrounds, don't belong. Despite the constant prejudice and doubt, both are determined to follow their ambitions. For them, dance is a way out, an escape and on stage an ecstasy, that is rarely found in their tough day to day lives. The question is can they make it?

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A narrative compression of time, place and persons that captures the 'spirit' of a building 300 years old.

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Nothing happens where we live so we do special ops.