Projects with status: Complete

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David Graham Scott’s 2004 film DETOX OR DIE documented how with a single dose of iboga he quit his drug addiction, inspiring many others to go down the same path.
The psychedelic plant root hails from Africa where it has been used in religious ceremonies through countless generations. A burgeoning movement in the west has promoted iboga as a quick fix route to painless drug withdrawal.
Now David wants to find out how truly effective iboga is. In a Dutch suburb several addicts embark on the long night of psychedelic detox under the watchful eye of an experienced iboga practitioner. One client collapses and ends up on life-support, the provider is jailed and David starts to question the safety of iboga treatment.
The film culminates with a nerve-wracking iboga session in London where the director himself administers the treatment. How does the filmmaker weigh up the ethics of involving himself so deeply in this controversial detox option and what will be his final resolve on the efficacy of it?

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If you met a beautiful woman in desperate need of help would you bring her home? This is the chance that takes Philip an ordinary London bachelor addicted to horror films, while out jogging at night he encounters Jane a dazed and confused model.
He brings her back to his house and discovers that this mysterious woman just arrived from America hides a shocking secret in her heart.
Their edgy relationship enfolds like a thriller and culminates in a torrid night of passion, terror and love.

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A troubled father attempts to save his ailing relationship with his two young daughters.

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This short dance film celebrates the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, it is a tribute to the miraculous travel system which we all use everyday. This film presses pause for a moment and lets us take a look. A real intersection between art and life, almost surreal theatrical show with London's commuters as a backdrop.

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Leidi lives with her mom and her baby. Her boyfriend, Alexis, hasn't shown up in days. That sunny morning, after she bathes her baby, Leidi is sent by her mother to buy plantains. She meets a guy who tells her he has seen Alexis with another girl. She forgets about bringing home the plantains and embarks on a journey to find him. Leidi won't return home until she finds the father of her child.

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In 1942, a young woman fends off the fears and trials of war by reading the letters her lover sends home. When the letters stop coming, she falls into a secretive affair with the village postman, but his motives are not what they seem.

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The Angel, in central Osaka, is one of the 30,000 love hotels to be found across Japan today. Love Hotels like The Angel can be rented by the hour or for days – they are used by all members of Japanese society including married couples and pensioners. Yet the special Fantasy or ‘concept’ love hotels like The Angel, that once boomed from the 1970s until a few years ago are now facing pressures from conservative lobby groups and rival chains, and many hotels are being forced out of business from a love hotel market that makes two times as much as Toyota Motors each year.
Sofia International Film Festival 2015 - International premiere

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18-year-old top model Alessa's world rapidly unravels as she is offered the biggest gig in the modelling world. Under the side effects of illegal diet pills and her obsession with fellow model Carilee, anxiety and paranoia begin to take control of her mind.

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Mike, a sulky teenager has to do a boring job; to take his little brother Jack to the hairdresser. Waiting for him in the car, Mike starts to get worried when Jack takes too long to return.

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In need of love, a misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.

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In 1983 writer and theologian John Hull went blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memory and imaginative life Notes on Blindness immerses the audience in John’s experience of blindness.

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Recalling a marketing practice whereby the voice and words of employees are coached, tweaked and scored to the point of musical crescendo to produce a smoother corporate image.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand