Projects

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Ravi and Paul, two friends from Leicester, end up attending a gay party in the small Indian town of Shimoga, upon an invitation of Ravi's Parsee email-pal Jeh from Mumbai. A genteel dreamer Ravi instantly falls in love with Mani - a dark and handsome local working man.

Ravi and Paul also meet an older male couple, Murthy and Anna, now in their sixties. Murthy has lived in the UK to avoid marriage. When he returns to attend his mother's funeral, his lover Anna (a married man by then) convinces him to stay back. After his wife's death, Anna decides to join Murthy and they run a hotel. Both Ravi and Paul are surprised to meet the older same-sex couple.

Although Ravi can't let go of his newfound love, Mani cannot overcome the vast gap that exists between them. Mani is under constant pressure to get married to a woman. When Ravi asks Mani to accompany him to the UK, Mani shows very little willingness. Ravi seeks Murthy and Anna's help, but the couple hide behind words of wisdom and express inability to bring Ravi and Mani together. Tension brews between Ravi and Paul due to sexually charged Mani and the situation highlights some nasty cracks in their friendship. Mani throws in a surprise at the farewell meeting that Ravi's asked for.

Interspersed with flashes of semi-surreal situations - presented through exciting dream sequences - Yours Emotionally! unfolds a brightly painted canvas that defies stereotypes and explores contrasting values within Indian and Western gay sub-cultures.
 

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Zoltan is a retiring human cannonball at a Victorian circus and freak show. With dwindling audiences and appreciation for his act, he decides to make his last performance, special.

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A surreal look at the remnants of Socialist East Germany. Told through a double of the ex-president Erich Honecker, two ex-border guards (one east, one west) who photographed each other over the fence for 18 years and a man with a dream to rebuild his own version of the GDR in a bleak East German town with 70% unemployment.

A complex insight into the confused aftermath of a vanished country.

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The remarkable story of a woman who owes her life to unseen angels and an eminent psychologist who was prepared to believe.

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A Map With Gaps is an account of a journey made by the director's father through Soviet Russia in the early 'seventies, in a van he built and named Supervan.

Utilising a combination of archive audio recordings and still photographs, drama reconstruction and animation, a surreal and comic tale unfolds of 12,000 miles, 14 countries and 26 very peculiar days. Essentially this is a catalogue of minor disasters, a story that demonstrates that fact can indeed be stranger than fiction and sometimes the grey area between the two is the most interesting place to explore, particularly if you forgot to bring a map.

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An old man is unsettled by the re-emergence of an obscure figure from the past whose unwelcome appearance triggers memories of espionage and sudden violence.
Toby Tatum's film Between Two Men explores his relationship to his father - examining an image complicated by layers of fiction and accumulated mysteries.

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Catch-a-Fishie takes to the waves with the trawling skippers of Britain's North East coast. Behind the drama of the hunt for fish there is the story of a community in steep decline and songs that will soon be heard no more.

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The film is a factual film about a cycleride across the County of Cheshire.

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On acquiring a new Digi Video camera, Beryl becomes obsessed with the filmmaking process using it to articulate her desires and dreams in a video diary. As 'cineaste par exellance' she agrees to video the wedding of her friend Mandy, seizing the opportunity to imitate her filmmaking idols with disastrous and hilarious results.

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A charming and poignant tale following the quest of the rejected Daniella DuPrey's yearning for her parents love. She does whatever it takes only to be pushed aside by her 'brother'.

The family have been forced to live on the streets during the Depression, so her parents decide to create a son and heir (Elroy the Third) in order to fool Grandpa so and inherit his wealth. The happy family does not last long.

Events take a turn as Elroy the Third is crowned a hero in the town, despite this being due to Daniella's hard work. The story becomes a murder mystery with a humorous twist; what goes around, comes around, or does it?
 

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Flowers Don't Grow Here, told through the eyes of a gang of Ukrainian street children, offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of the young individuals paying the ultimate price for political reform. A life so at odds with 'New Europe': a childhood haunted by prostitution, addiction, crime, violence and murder.

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Shot over three years in the USA, India and Mexico, Garbage Warrior is a feature length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico, and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living. A snapshot of contemporary geo-politics and an inspirational tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world.