A Bunch of Amateurs

Director: Kim Hopkins

Year: 2025

Novelty pop band Black Lace are responsible for creating the worst record in history, as voted for by music journalists. Most notably 'Agadoo' banned by the BBC for not being "credible", yet was still a massively popular track. But at peak fame Black Lace’s rapid success unravelled - their distribution company went bankrupt and a disgraced member vanished - Enter young Dene Michael to save the day.<br /> 40 years later Dene's still carrying the novelty fame, driving a clapped-out Volkswagen Up into the most deprived areas of the UK, after a decade living and working in Benidorm. On tours Dene's always accompanied by his biggest fan Anne, his 89-year-old mother. Unable to fly, Anne's asked Dene to drive her back to Benidorm for a last goodbye. Dene's kitted out a transit van for the arduous journey. However, the mother and son nostalgia trip has been upended by Dene's unexpected new relationship. Hayley, an 'Agadoo' superfan, has fallen head over heels in love with her ageing idol and is joining them on this Spanish adventure.<br /> Without a pension, Dene is placing his bets on recording a new 'hit' record. But who needs an overweight pensioner in a loud pineapple emblazoned shirt and oversized red spectacles, singing a pop song? Apparently, many do! Agadoo doo <br /> Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2025 - World premiere

Director: Kim Hopkins

Year: 2018

A young mother yearns to escape the unending hardships of a remote Cuban fishing village in search of a false and potentially fatal American Dream.

Director: Kim Hopkins

Year: 2003

A documentary, a drama, a story of myth and murder. Wanted is a weird, wilderness, western, set in the Dakota Badlands, where the last herd of buffalo cross the paths of beat-up pick up trucks smuggling bootleg whiskey onto the rez'. This is the mysterious world of the tribal cop, where DNA and dreams are accorded equal value in the hunt for a killer, where mere facts are not enough. This is the story of their loves, lives, work and the mysterious case of the Rapid Creek deaths.<br /> <br /> The facts are clear - in a little over 18 months, 8 corpses have been dragged out of a creek. Suspecting race hate as a motive, the Sioux Indians are living in fear.<br /> <br /> Intelligent, stylish and unconventional, Wanted is a feature length real life drama that uses both documentary and fiction techniques, as well as the latest digital film technology to combine film and digital video.<br /> <br /> As the Sam Peckinpah quote at the beginning of the film alludes to, the clinical facts contained in purist documentary often fall short of the moral truth of a situation. It seems that nowhere is this truer than on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where Wanted was shot.