Projects

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Young Hannibal: Behind The Mask, directed by BAFTA nominee Peter Webber, introduces us to the Hannibal Lecter character, telling the story of the formative years of the serial killer from his childhood in Lithuania to his teenage years in France. Starring 20-year-old French actor Gaspard Ulliel in the coveted role, alongside award-winning Chinese actress Gong Li, and Rhys Ifans, the film is written by best-selling novelist Thomas Harris, based on his forthcoming book Behind the Mask.

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Freddy Fredericks, Human Resource Director of ze Gestapo makes a television broadcast as part of a Nazi party recruitment campaign. Freddy outlines ze substantial benefits of a serving secret service officer und some of ze little pitfalls. During and after ze broadcast, Freddy outlines some of his thoughts on Jews, Belgian sheep, ze British, American homosexuals und ze Fuhrer.

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The opening animated cartoon title sequence from the Palme d'Or nominated feature film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. The sequence sets up the theme of the film by showing the Peter Sellers character as he bungles his way to causing mayhem and killing off his clones.

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Across the Waters is a poetic, reflective journey between two cultures. Fifty years ago, a young girl arrived on the island of Lewis from a village in Pakistan. Now, her granddaughter is going to leave the island. Three generations of Pakistani women and a Gaelic islander give a personal perspective on the island's history, and the sense of belonging and exile that has defined their existence.

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Finding some hand-made film magazines at home, Robin Mitchell learns about a film that his father starred in and produced in 1943. His search leads him to the film and to its extraordinary director Robert Edwards. At an emotional screening, he eventually reunites the filmmakers after 60 years.

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Billy Hull was a prison officer in The Maze/Long Kesh. Against prison policy Billy collected items from various individuals, incidents and occurrences. On his retirement Billy organised a display of the objects. The public has never seen this collection.

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Cabinet is a meditation on the fetish objects of the Unabomber's story: wilderness, typewriting, cabin, and bomb. The film includes DV and Super 8 footage shot in Montana, archive, computer animation and S16mm live action, a Shaker song, an Edison cylinder recording, and bird song recordings from Cornell University.

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Part document of the past, part imagination of the future, Crude Progress tells the story of the rise and fall of the oil industry in the Orkney Islands. Set to the music of James MacMillan the film mimics a folk tale, warning against the seduction of capitalism and the illusion of progress.

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Everything Was Life is an animated documentary looking at the practice of female genital mutilation.

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Night vs. light, music vs. motion, figuration vs. abstraction. Flowing, twisted tubes of light collide with dark pools of shadow in this nocturnal prowl through a neon cityscape. Created entirely from digital photographs.

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This documentary tells the story of the protracted war in Chechnya from the perspective of Soviet and current Russian dissidents. Comparisons are drawn between the Chechen invasion and that of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and how the Chechen invasion helped to bring the ruthless KGB to absolute power in Russia today.

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Silent Voices is based on interviews with over 100 people affected by domestic violence in the UK which have been translated into seven stories in the form of seven interwoven 'Talking Heads'-style monologues. Each character tells their extraordinary story of their relationships and the resultant impact on their lives and those around them.