King Crimson is a band that people literally are dying to be in. IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING recruits us into the world's most demanding rock band and introduces us to a world full of acute suffering, only alleviated by the applause of an audience so in love with King Crimson that their demands threaten to make the lives of the band members even more miserable. Filmed over several years and featuring exclusive performances shot in Pompeii and the UK, the film follows a dysfunctioning family of ageing artists determined to make meaningful work in the deepening shadow of their own mortality. The group's leader Robert Fripp, famous for his unique guitar work with David Bowie and Brian Eno, and aptly described as “a cross between Mahatma Gandi, Joseph Stalin and the Marquis de Sade”, has overseen an environment for over 50 years in which freedom and responsibility conspire to place extraordinary creative demands on the band's members, and ultimately the film’s maker Toby Amies. Not everyone survives the experience intact. IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING also contains excellent music and bad jokes.
Official Selection SXSW 2022 - 24 Beats Per Second - World premiere
Follows a South London family and sees how one red dress is the centre of their lives.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - International premiere
Inspired by writer, director and star Aml Ameen's life, BOXING DAY follows Melvin, a British author living in America, who returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée, Lisa, to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancée has left behind.
A non-acrimonious but sudden divorce wrenches the gay, working-class born Emeka out of a decade-long hiatus living the middle-class dream, landing him back in the childhood council house he hoped he'd left behind.
During their golden wedding weekend away, Edward and Violet Knights are brutally separated, triggering a wife's desperate pursuit of her abducted husband through an increasingly frightening and unfamiliar world. APPROACHING SHADOWS is a story of true love and the acceptance of death, told through the vehicle of a horror-road movie.
Two elderly brothers live together on a small farm in Forest Coal Pit. This super 8mm portrait explores the mundanity, vibrancy and intimacy of their relationship and hyperlocal world. As they feed their livestock, tend to their garden, the brothers discuss elephants in China, lobster fisherman, ghosts and each other.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021
Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2022
Be yourself. Valentine takes terrible advice from his fuccboi roommate to use dating apps to find "the one" Val navigates meaningless one night stands and superficial relationships on social media apps to find love at first swipe.
Tracing the journey of the four members of Led Zeppelin, the 'Stairway To Heaven' rockers, through the music scene of the 1960s to their meeting in the summer of 1968. Culminating in 1970 when Led Zeppelin II's 'Whole Lotta Love' knocked The Beatles off the top of the charts and launched what would become the biggest band in the world.
Featuring new interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones, as well as rare archival interviews with the late drummer John Bonham, and previously unseen archive imagery, state of the art audio transfers of the band’s music, and music that influenced the band’s sound.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021 - Out of Competition - World premiere
The Universe is revolving around me in a bad way.”
Through mind-bending animation, GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY explores the limits of reality in this true story of so-called ‘schizophrenia’ and the power of gaming communities.
