Projects

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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.  

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A girl walks into the road. She falls through it. She has become 'unstuck'. 'pop!' A series of non sequitur transitions leading to a strange and unfathomable conclusion.

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Observational documentary series following members of a British Super Bike Team through their 2005 racing season. VIP access to things you would never usually see.  

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'The living mythology of gold in Ghana'. Heart of Gold is a poetic documentary exploring the changing relationship people in the Akim Abuakwa region of Ghana have with gold.

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A short animation about war, peace and pies.