Projects with status: Complete

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Champions aren't made in Gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

The Day of the Fight is a behind-the-scenes documentary on Manchester's boxing gyms, Following professional boxers such as the Undisputed Light Welterweight Champion of the World (IBF/WBU) Belts -Ricky the 'Hitman' Hatton and Michael Gomez, and trainers such as Billy Graham, Kerry Hayes Bobby Rimmer, from Phoenix camp and Brian Hughes MBE Moston Collyhurst Gym.
Its not all about Fight Night!

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The Dog Who Is a Cat Inside is a special animal. The dog and cat live together in the same body, but this causes conflict. They learn that only by resolving their differences and working together can they find happiness.
 
Commissioned by Ruth Fielding of Lupus Films as part of Channel 4 Television's Animator in Residence scheme.

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Dan has always wanted to be the fastest man on four wheels. This comic documentary charts his bid to take on the big boys. In a milk float.

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Dad returns from his new life in America especially for the annual vllage fete.  But he finds that his place in the family he abandoned is by no means assured.

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The last in the Fish in the Machine trilogy. A yellow puffer fish, caught in a world of mirrors, flickers from colour to high contrast black and white, in syncopation with the percussive rhythms of gamelan music. Suddenly, the video changes tone, incorporating an extract from a television broadcast with rather more political and social consequences for us all.

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Two bellboys await payday. One receives a £5 tip, with which he buys cigarettes. The banknote is passed on to a man who uses it for a lapdance. The dancer passes it to her daughter for an ice-cream. As the vendor rushes away it blows through his window, being caught by the second bellboy.

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Office-worker Bob thinks he's dreaming when a doll starts talking to him, until it helps him to find a girlfriend. But the doll won't stop talking, and keeps Bob awake each night. When he tries to end the relationship, the doll uses its powers to take revenge.

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Albert is a tramp who dreams of becoming a member of the exclusive Gentlemen’s Club known as The G.O.D Club.

When a sack of money, heaven sent, lands at his feet, he must learn to reconcile the material benefits of his new life with the spiritual comfort of his old one.

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Ghost & The Crystal  is a re-working in video clips from a film made by Stuart Pound almost thirty years ago. The new technology and the old examine each other with mock-cinematic effects of colour, contrast and movement. The soundtrack is contemporary music played on a traditional instrument of popular entertainment, the hurdy-gurdy.

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Three teenage boys are led into violence and temptation on a journey that will shock their sleepy community yet also express its deepest jealousies and divisions.
 
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael is a brutal and unflinchingly honest portrayal of life in a post-9/11 world. Filmed in long stylised takes, the narrative is elliptical and poetic, yet infused with a dark and ironic wit.
 
Selected for Critics' Week, Cannes 2005.

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Two guys, one green bag. One girl, a way too noisy off-license employee.

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"When the world talks about the men who carried out this holy operation they will be talking about the men who changed the course of history," exclaims a senior Al Qaeda member in this fictional docu-drama from director Antonia Bird. Charting the planning and execution of the World Trade Center attacks by a handful of Muslim fundamentalists led by Mohamed Atta (Kamel), The Hamburg Cell is a devastatingly powerful work that puts faces and personalities to the men who carried out the attacks against the US on the fateful morning of September 11th.
 
Based on a wide range of documentary evidence, from court transcriptions to video footage, this simmering yet understated little movie focuses on Lebanese student Ziad Jarrah (Saleh) as he's transformed from rich-boy student at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg to jihadist hijacker of United Airlines flight 93 (which crashed en route to the White House shortly after simultaneous attacks struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon).
 
It's a difficult journey. Immersing us in the secretive, clandestine world of these fundamentalists as they indoctrinate new recruits, train at terrorist camps in Afghanistan and learn to fly at an aviation school in Florida, Bird forces a disturbing intimacy with men destined to become mass murderers.