Projects with status: Complete

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An old lady remembers the journey she made as a newly-wed from England to Czechoslovakia in 1945.

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Riva is the portrait of a woman, Riva Ben Eliezer, now ninety years old. How do you look at the life of someone who has lived through so much? I would look at her hands, wrinkled and old, and think, these are the hands that did all those things, that were communist in Palestine, that were imprisoned and tortured, that bore children and a great and terrible war, that lived in Siberia, that taught kindergarten, that wrote books. These hands, no other, did this, and this is what they look like now. This is what time and life has done to my grandmother's hands.
 
But the film is more than that. It is more than a portrait of a woman who lived through extraordinary times, who was a Jew in a place and time when there was nothing and nowhere worse to be. It is the portrait of a whole life, not just the sections that have the most drama. It is the portrait of her now - for now contains all her past, somehow, in her hands and in her face. In her voice and especially in her laugh.
 
It is a private film made for the public. The use of hand processed images, with their patina of blotches and scratches, creats a space for Riva to exist, where the presentation of her ninety-year-old body is not intrusive but respectful. It is a private film also because it was made in private, just me and her, so our relationship becomes a part of it.
 
It is not my intention with this film to deify Riva. Just to show her, as I see her, because it is important to see the lives of others, lives that have been deeply lived, as Riva's has.

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Irrfan Khan (The Warrior) and Koel Purie (Everybody Says I'm Fine) lead this surreal rites of passage encounter between a dysfunctional, coke-snorting fashion model and an ultra-focussed, strong-silent stranger who are thrown together by chance. Set in the magnificent wilderness moon-scape of Ladakh, India, the road journey and the strange encounters that follow provide a dramatic backdrop for the relationship that develops.

Both are outsiders, both are lonely, both crave the human contact that their roles in society deny them. Tentatively they search each other out in a film that is poised between elusiveness and engagement, suspicion and tenderness - at once hilarious and sinister, bizarre and moving, psychedelic and intensely real, Road to Ladakh is an original story scripted, edited and produced by director Ashvin Kumar.

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Set in a near future, where technology owes more to the 1930's than to the 21st century, Room Service begins when a mysterious intruder armed with a collection of home-made tools and devices breaks into the bedroom of a sleeping woman.

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Romantic comedy. Laurence's pointless existence involves guarding the empty offices of an empty office block. His life is spent going around in one endless circle until he meets Ann and falls in love at first sight. She offers an opportunity for his spirit to escape, but things are never that easy.
 

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Zeta, a thirtysomething highflying advertising exec leaves her beloved dog in the care of Zoe, a junior colleague, whilst away in Paris for a romantic weekend. Zoe's inexperience with dogs lands her in a lot of trouble. Shot on location in London. The music has been composed to reflect the vibrance of modern day London.

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An ironic look at the way newspapers report children's deaths, accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman. Based on the film maker's archive of newspaper clippings, these are terrible stories that make great copy. With an inventive mix of still photography and live action, the film sweeps around Britain to create a chilling comment on death, news reporting and the family.

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Satirical look at a young bachelor's unhealthy obsession with his 'grotesque' nose and the media induced fascination of the 'perfect person'.

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The humdrum lives of four women are transformed by the arrival of Italian femme fatale, Sophia Rosselini and her School for Seduction.
 
For Clare, Irene and sisters Kelly and Donna the 'School for Seduction' is a much needed break from reality, promising much - how to be sexy, seductive and in control.
 
Initially the course is simply great fun and the women are unleashed on their unsuspecting partners with comic, sometimes uncomfortable but often-hilarious results.
 
However, all appears to be shattered with the arrival of Sophia's estranged husband and a shocking revelation.

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This will be the most important lesson of your life. Maybe the only important lesson.
 

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Schoolyard Samurai follows the misadventures of a cute unassuming little girl as she strives to fit in with the other kids at school. After several failed attempts to join in playground games she decides to take action.

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Sam is happiest when he's scooting.
 
While his mother negotiates the pitfalls of a broken marriage, Sam has a special way of escaping to 'his own magical world'. But only if two wheels are on the ground.