Projects with status: Complete

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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.  

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Rollin'on is a film about skateboarding, hard work and perseverance. The film tells the story of a group of young people who regularly meet at Finsbury Park skate-park. Its main narrative is given by an interview with legendary skateboarding champion Tony Hawk, in which he tells the story of his first rolling steps into the world of skateboarding and how much skateboarding contributed to changing his life from bullied shy boy and outsider to revered professional skateboarding champion and video game character. The film draws a parallel between the lives of the young skateboarders in Haringey and their hero and hopefully will prove very inspirational among viewers. The film touches on themes such as bulling at school, social barriers and prejudice, as well as investigating weather skateboarding could offer a viable alternative to gun, knives, street crime in general and boredom.

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A collaborative dramatic reworking of a 'psychedelically enhanced' excerpt from the award-winning film ‘San Francisco’. The carefree spirit of the original 1968 film is placed in a sobering and revelatory context through the juxtaposition of the original footage with audio drawn from the seminal events of that momentous year. Part of a multi-channel installation, presented here as a short film.

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This is a 3D CGI light hearted animation created using the program Maya. It's about a scarecrow called Scatter Bags who befriends a cute little bird. They overcome adverse conditions such as the greedy crows and the changing weather conditions.

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A riveting feature documentary based on the ground-breaking new book by Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power, Sergio will use the inspiring, rigorous and tragic life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN envoy to Iraq who died in the first suicide bombing of the war, to engage the public in a conversation about the principles that should guide US foreign policy into the 21st Century. Vieira de Mello, a relatively unknown hero who deserves wider recognition, devoted his life to the ideals of diplomacy, security, the rule of law, and the fundamental right of people to live in dignity. Sergio is the story of the day those ideals came under attack, and why they must be preserved.

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Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating: how could a 'slumdog' know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life on the streets - picaresque tales of the Juhu slum where he and his brother Salim grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. In each episode of his story lies the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out.

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Shot over five years, a unique and humorous portrait of three girls growing into adolescence, set against the harsh realities of life in two small poverty stricken towns at either end of England. As it unfolds the girls behaviour changes in surprising, touching and sometimes tragic ways.