Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Thought-provoking tale of a teenage girl who, after being abandoned by her father, is determined to make a new life for herself and her kid brother: no matter what that takes.

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It's Dolly's round, but the local 'cream tea brigade' have expensive tastes, so Dolly heads for the pier arcade. Here, her secret admirer, Mr Bondini the pier mechanic and sometime magician, has his own hopes before tea-time. Dolly must chose between keeping up appearances and love on Worthing pier.

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It's 1970 and Tamar is 10. When she is taken to visit her grandmother she enters a world where nothing makes sense. What is Buba so scared of and why is everything in her flat painted red? Tamar is frightened.

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This comic drama is about three different people on a survival weekend, where the only food is our Hero - a streetwise chicken called Lunch, who is determined not to become anybody's last supper! The film is told from the chicken's point of view and was shot in the Western genre.

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A humorous and moving documentary about the meaning of life for five disparate members of a unique men's group on a housing estate in SW Burnley, Lancashire. Through the men's life experiences emerges a portrait of a working class town with very little work. Compassionate and thought provoking.

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Liquid Love explores the nature of love and relationships between a man and a woman. Set in a bedroom, we watch a couple in their most intimate moments. Like voyeurs we peer in, unable to turn away.

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Alma, anorexic, enters a hospital for treatment, and finds herself caught in the competitive games of the other patients. Their grip on her is loosened by her curiosity about the gardening handyman whom she watches through the windows. When the leader of the group bolts to kill herself, Alma hesitates.

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An offbeat comedy set in the badlands of an East London park. Our distraught hero meets his fairy godmother who enlists the help of a magnificent seven to reunite him with his lost love, culminating in a trade-off with all the intensity of a spaghetti western show-down.

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A contemporary music-driven drama, tinged with magic and special effects, that takes you on a journey from innocence to adolescence. When Bebette's artistic and unconventional behaviour is interpreted as disruptive and anti-social, she is projected from the beauty and security of her dream world into a bleak and sometimes frightening reality. In an effort to escape the torment in her mind, she runs! This is the first film written and directed by Janis Sharp and is full of optimism and charm, with an original soundtrack filled with mood and melody.

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Based on a short story by Brady Udall. Jerry has lost everything he cares for. One night he turns up at a big house, accompanied by a pygmy goat, which it transpires, belongs to his past.

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These were the babies born at the beginning of the twentieth century, amongst them Rosa Mintz, daughter of immigrants, who served in the Red Cross with the Allies liberating Belsen concentration camp and Gai Eaton, entering his eighth decade when we encountered him still working at the Central London Mosque. This is a celebration of the diverse community of older Britons.

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Morvern Callar is a 21 year old supermarket worker from a small port town in the west of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something you get on with as best you can with what you've got. One morning Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor.