Beyond the North Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie

Director: Natalie Cubides-Brady

Year: 2023

A sci-fi city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Created from archive footage, the film unfolds through fictional letters from a post-apocalyptic future. The film invites us to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate emergency and our global destiny.<br /> Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition - World premiere<br /> Official Selection Uppsala Short Film Festival 2023

Director: Natalie Cubides-Brady

Year: 2016

Filmed around the time of Hugo Chavez’s last presidential election, this film focuses on the life of Carmen, the filmmaker’s aunt, who works as a shop assistant in Caracas, Venezuela. <br /> Combining observational and poetic documentary techniques, the film follows Carmen’s everyday life in the city in the run up to the election, against a backdrop of rousing political speeches and grand social promises.<br /> Offering an intimate portrait of both Carmen and Caracas, the film reflects on the gaps between the rhetoric of Chavez’s government and ordinary lived experience. <br /> At its heart, Carmen Waits is a meditation on the ways in which myth, religion, faith and death interact with Chavez’s politics.

Director: Hannah Berryman

Year: 2024

A landmark feature documentary about astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command the Space Shuttle.<br /> Eileen’s incredible journey starts with her smalltown beginnings, sees her smash through many glass ceilings, and culminates in four dramatic space shuttle missions, the last being possibly the most dangerous and most important of them all.<br /> At its heart the film is the moving human drama of one family, where a mother’s extraordinary career takes us straight to the big philosophical question of what is the level of acceptable risk in human endeavour? <br /> This film celebrates Commander Collins’ trailblazing NASA career which opened the way for women to become spacecraft pilots and commanders, and proved a perfect riposte to a previous generation of male astronauts who thought there was no place for women to lead the way in space. <br /> Official Selection DOC NYC 2024 - World premiere<br /> Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025 - European premiere