ROSALYN is about the fears, emotions and anxieties that arise with pregnancy. Our central character, Rose, feels threatened by, and resentful of the volatility of her own body.
Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy, Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. They christen it ‘Little Joe’ but as it grows, so too does Alice’s suspicion that her new creations may not be as harmless as their nickname suggests.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Competition - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Dare Strand
A sci-fi short set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.
In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder is on her deathbed, as her young successor, who is born underground, comes to visit her. The talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and inherited trauma.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Experimenta Strand
A magic realist tale of chance, karma and retribution inspired by the Brothers Grimm fable The Wanderers. On an isolated peninsula, a small band of outsiders and survivalists, led by an enigmatic, but fading and delusional matriarch, are severely tested by the unexpected arrival of two strangers. As the two strangers rivalry runs its course, the leadership of this out-of-the-way community is increasingly called into question and an extraordinary chain of events ensues.
Detectives Skye Steele and Inspector Miles Davies solve a kidnapping case that draws them into a 3000 year old supernatural mystery. A mystery that threatens to bring a new darkness throughout 1930s Europe. Is the enormity of the challenge too much for our heroes?
Kiera is being bullied at school. She’s the nerdish captain of the a cappella club and an easy target. Or so it seems.
In fact, her a cappella club possess a secret, supernatural power: when they sing 'The Devil’s Harmony’, listeners are sent into a state of never-ending sleep.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Shorts Programme
Eve has lost her husband in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a remote Suffolk beach house to grieve, but there's someone else in the house grieving her loss from another war.
A three year old asks his father an unanswerable question: “Where do we go when we die?” Together, they embark on an epic journey of fantasy realms and mythical creatures in a quest for the answer.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - U.S. Narrative Competition - World premiere
ABDUCTION is a story of Kevin a broken man who lost his son Harvey 5 years ago under mysterious circumstances, along with 5 other children from the same area. Then more recently lost his loving wife Lindsey who had turn to alcohol after the disappearance of their only child. Lindsey had asked Harvey to get some wood from the log storage box from in the garden when he vanished and never forgave herself. Now 2019, Kevin hears a knock on the back door to his shock it's Harvey he looks exactly the same as the night he vanished wearing the same clothes. The other children also appear from where they were last seen and not one of them has any recollection of where they've been for the past 5 years. To him it seems like just a couple of minutes have past. Back in 2014 when the children disappeared a paedophile that had been rehabilitated into the village community without the locals knowledge but when they community finds out they start a witch hunt to find him. The police are under pressure from the local community arrest and charge him with the kidnapping and murders of all the children. Kevin along with the other parents is interviewed and recalls the events of the night Harvey vanished telling the reporter what his wife witnessed that night and to the day she died talked about bright blue lights in the nights sky which nobody believed. The children are returned to their families to try and rebuild their life's in the community of Baildon but strange things start to happen the children display special abilities people start vanishing without a trace.
The story of Diva – a fading superstar preparing for a comeback performance at the 2065 'eSports Olympics' – and Geo, an AI with artistic yearnings. Set in a smoke-and-mirrors realm of fantastical architecture, sentient drones and snow-deluged jungles, AIDOL revolves around the long and complex struggle between humanity and Artificial Intelligence.
Fame – in all its allure and emptiness – is set against the bigger contradictions of a post-AI world, a world where originality is sometimes no more than an algorithmic trick and where machines have the capacity for love and suffering. Contemporary anxieties and fixations – the rise of AI, the formulaic dictates of celebrity, the hegemony of technological giants – are refracted through a quixotic prism. AIDOL is accompanied by a score composed and orchestrated by the artist.
A nightmarish contemporary vision. Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind – one physically and the other psychologically.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Cult Strand - World premiere
