Projects matching: Ian McDonald

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An intimate portrait of Paolo Avenati, a once-aspiring filmmaker living with a progressive fatal mitochondrial disease, and his fiercely devoted mother, Loretta. As the illness takes over Paolo's mind and body, leaving him completely dependent on his mother, she becomes his voice, revealing the quiet realities of caregiving and anticipatory grief. Moving between moments of tenderness, humour and sorrow, the film traces a mother’s enduring love as she learns that sometimes the deepest expression of love is learning how to let go.

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Jason's outdoor masturbation excursion is interrupted by the crash landing of a spaceship in the woods. He takes the lost astronaut home to use the phone, but the lines are down so his new American friend has to stay for food, a bath, sleep and maybe more.

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An unique sermon from a blaspheming american bishop which expresses his views on homosexuality, Chinese and African women, the ordination of gay priests and other irreligious topics. This short film is not for those of a faint disposition, strong religious beliefs, gays, straights, foreigners, men, women or children!

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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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Events take place on a semingly normal Wednesday - another day, another dog. The Peerless Pets courier arrives at a prestigious Belfast hotel to deliver a Chihuahua to Ivan, one of the company's best customers. It's the third dog this week. Ivan has a thing about dogs.  

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Chester and Doreen Barnes seem like any ordinary couple. The thing is that they are not! Chester is an aging Superhero Captain Miracle who has hung up his cape. However, the normal humdrum inertia of their retired lives is constantly under threat from Dr Nightshade, Captain Miracle's age-old nemesis.