Projects with status: Complete

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A dark little comedy about a couple who are too busy blaming eachother to see where they are heading on this day out in the English Countryside.

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New Love is a story set in the future. In a brave new world built on rationality, it plunges us into the irrational logics of love and desire.

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Layla has always found social situations difficult due to her shyness. However she breaks the curse when she finds a new lease of confidence at a party in the guise of Madonna.

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An old artist Stanley Wyatt leads a solitary existence devoid of colour. His paintings are dark and brooding. A new neighbour Helen moves in next door. She loves yellow, and brings sunshine into Stanley's life.

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The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers manoeuvring for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age.

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The philosophical chiller Nine Miles Down, is a spine-chilling journey into the mental psyche of a man struggling to escape his tortured past.

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An argument starts over a sign on a drinks vending machine.

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O Zelador, a feature-length documentary, explores the life of Mestre Russo. A remarkable individual who lives with his family in Baixada Fluminense, a former plantation about a one hour bus ride from the centre of Rio de Janeiro. It is a desperately poor area of dirt tracks, roaming animals, open sewers and ramshackle houses. At an early age Mestre Russo discovered the value of Capoeira. The music, self-defence and philosophy of this Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestation helped him endure a life fraught with danger and hardship. The film follows Mestre Russo, his wife and sons and his loyal group of students who claim that Russo's love, knowledge and guidance have been an inspiration to them. He is a father-figure to each of them. They, in turn, have provided him with the extended family which he sought. Russo holds a meeting every Sunday, a 'Roda' (literally circle) in Caxias, where people come and perform Capoeira in the street. This Roda endured the oppressive regime during the dictatorship and has survived for 35 years up until today. The film includes interviews with Russo, his family, students, other Masters as well as journalists, academics and a Candomble priest. These interviews, together with archive footage and photographs chart the turbulent history of Capoeira and sets it in its cultural, social and political context told through the life of this remarkable man.

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It's 1921. In Russia a million children are without parents after six years of war, famine and disease. Nearly 300,000 of them have been orphaned by murderous anti Semitic attacks, their lives hanging by a thread. In South Africa, businessman Isaac Ochberg dreams a dream of saving some of these helpless and lost souls. Filmed in the original locations, together with unique archive footage and testimony from survivors, 'Ochberg’s Orphans' reveals this unknown story of heroism.

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A young boy with battered old trainers discovers life has new meaning when he chances on a brand new pair of leather shoes.

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A hand-warming tale of love, incest and death. Be warned no film called Oedipus can ever end happily.

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An adventure involving a TV, a biscuit and no police whatsoever.