Projects

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The installation triptych employs AI-imagery to explore themes of desire and the expanding gap between real experience and artificial representations in the digital age. The interactive experience consists of three related works that use AI to augment, subvert, and negate the iconic image of the Hollywood kiss. Using a queer lens to appropriate a classic Hollywood aesthetic, the work places AI within the history of image-production technologies meant to incite and homogenize our desires. In the process, it reveals the nature of AI imagery and hints at how our most intimate desires will continue to be stretched and shaped by artificial representations at an accelerating pace. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2020 - XR Experience Special Event- International premiere

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World War II, 1945 - While fighting on the battlefield in Albania, Sante, a young Italian partisan, is captured and imprisoned in the Maliq prison camp near the Devoll River. The memory of his love for Elsa is what keeps him alive.

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Lumbu, which means “tall one” in Punjabi, reckons with his father's secret affair in a bid to save his family. Set in the Summer of '94, in Sandwell, West Midlands.

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A quick-witted short, that explores hook-up culture amongst Black-British men in Birmingham, England. Lucas, a computer techie goes on an ordeal when he invites Theo around for what he thought would be no strings attached fun, but it takes an odd turn. Official Selection Chicago International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Meet Special K, Peanut, Charlie, and the rest of The Brentford Penguins, a soccer team with a difference: all the young players have Down’s Syndrome. MIGHTY PENGUINS follows Coach Allan, the players, and families as they prepare to be the guard of honour for a Premier League match. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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An intensely intimate documentary about the extraordinary life and death of one of Britain’s most controversial photographers, Lanre Fehintola. Lanre took the idea of immersive photography to another level, applying the method approach to his journalistic research. From homelessness to heroin addiction, even drug dealing, Lanre completely embodied his subject, becoming a character in his own story, often to his detriment. Together with his close friend, filmmaker Leo Regan, the pair have documented Lanre’s remarkable journey over thirty years. My Friend Lanre follows Lanre as he faces his ultimate adventure, his own terminal illness. Unsurprisingly, he embraces the challenge with characteristic fearlessness, candour and humour. The documentary is deeply moving, funny and heart-breaking. A celebration of living and dying. A hymn to the soul. Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2023 - World premiere

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For eight years, 68-year-old Louise has been looking after her mum Rita, who is 92 and living with dementia. As both women grapple with Rita’s rapidly deteriorating condition, Louise must decide the best path forward for both herself and her mother.

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A ‘tale of the unexpected’ about an 8-year-old schoolboy with a nasty habit of picking his nose. Bullied by his classmates, unhelped by obtuse authority figures, Georgie retreats into himself and his habit, with macabre results.

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A psychological drama and thriller that follows the story of Harry Bradshaw, who struggles to come to terms with a tragedy, blaming himself for the loss of his partner, Clementine, a woman shrouded with a mysterious past. Caught in a whirlpool of loss and regret, Harry attempts to find innocence but finds himself struggling to move on as the guilt latches onto him, unwilling to let him go, dragging him further into a dream-like state of his darkest thoughts.

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When a Filipino victim of modern slavery in the UK stops responding, her rescuers fear the worst. By exploring their own memories and experiences of slavery, her would-be rescuers find strength in their community and resolve to save her. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 - International premiere

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As Carnival approaches, three Samba drummers reflect on the impacts of parental upbringing and the freeing effects of the artform on their lives.

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A talented footballer suppresses his secret passion for voguing for fear of his teammates' disapproval.