Projects in genres: Woman Director

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The story of a young boy who is sent to Jersey to live with his grandparents after his mother had left him home alone. The film follows Jimmy's struggle to find love, happiness and security.

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London, 1944. The war hangs in the balance. Nazi spy Eva has an ingenious method of transmitting a crucial Morse code message to a waiting German U-Boat. What could possibly go wrong?

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Three women: Ona, a pop star, Jude, a celebrated stripper and Hon, a judo player pursue, to the exclusion of everything else, their respective goals and ambitions. Ona starts judo training as a new fad in order to maintain the interest of her fans in her. Hon in addition to her obsessive judo training, also works as a bouncer in the lap dance club where Jude appears. Jude lands an offer she cannot refuse. A company producing the most expensive diamonds in the world is experiencing a decline in sales and is looking for a strategy to turn it around. It has hired one of the most experienced PR experts in the field. Suddenly opportunities present themselves, which could change the lives of the three women beyond all recognition putting their true motivations and passions to the test. A thought provoking film that challenges everybody’s perception of success.

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Amy is sick with a disease that keeps her in hospital isolation. While on his daily cigarette break, a janitor spots her. The two end up forming a tenuous friendship, one which occurs from different sides of the glass and only ever last as long as it takes for Ben's cigarette to burn down.

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Jonty is a young man, he's passionate about politics, and he's got lots of charisma. In this affectionate and amusing portrait, he and his gang of East London teenagers prepare for the coming revolution.

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Kimmie is a weird kind of road movie that follows the journey of Liberian childs rights activist, Kimmie Weeks as he returns home from exile for the first time in 6 years. It is a very personal journey set against the backdrop of two countries pulling themselves out of war, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Kimmie was just 10 when war broke out in Liberia. He and his mother spent 6 months in a camp without food or medicines where hundreds died and Kimmie was almost one of them. It was this experience that led him to commit his life to fighting for children and, only a child himself, he spent the next 7 years campaigning. When he was 17 he wrote a paper exposing the government's use of children as soldiers; his life was threatened and he fled the country. He was given asylum in the USA where he had been for 6 years when Charles Taylor was forced into exile and Kimmie could return home. This was to be a trip looking at the issues surrounding war affected children but it was much more than that. A very likeable 23 year old takes on chaos, hope, old friends, presidents and his own demons to find peace- always with humour.

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Set in a country coming of age, Little Box of Sweets is a simple love story about a young girl's journey to fight for her dreams and the love of the man who inspired her. A little village in North India is Asha's world. Whatever she knows and wants is right here in her humble existence with her grandparents and her soul mate Lalli. Then Seth comes along, the handsome son of an Indian Commissioner and Sheila, the beautiful daughter of a British missionary. Seth and Asha's common love for poetry draws them closer - awakening Asha to a dream to be more like him and strive for a better future. But it comes at a price.  

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Artist and barber Faisal Abdu'Allah sets up his very own drop-in barbershop. Snipping and shaving while spinning yarns, Faisal discusses art, life and haircutting with customers.

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The film shows Chalford a village in the Cotswolds through one year. The only shop is under threat and becomes a focal point. Whole food hippies, pedal powered eco warriors. Life long residents and a multitude of children live life and help run the shop on ideology rather than commerce.

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A young couple move into their new home in time for their first anniversary. Though deeply in love and commited to each other, a trauma from their past threatens to break their home apart.

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A portrait of Peggy Smith and her husband Leslie - a retired cruise ship drummer - as they bicker their way through their old age in a London retirement home.

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Marjorie is an 89 year old retired vaudevillian actress. Fortunes have faded, but the memories of her magnificent past are vibrant. Marjorie's stark, subdued current existence is illustrated through the use of animated documentary. The film inter-cuts with fantastical, dreamlike, animated imagery which depict her memories of a happier time.