Projects with status: Complete

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Ever since Venus and Serena Williams started playing in tennis tournaments, they've provoked strong reactions - from awe and admiration to suspicion and resentment. They've been winning championships for over a decade, pushing the limits of longevity in such a demanding sport. How long can they last? In Venus & Serena, we gain unprecedented access into their lives during the most intimidating year of their career. Over the course of 2011, Venus grappled with an energy-sapping autoimmune disease while Serena battled back from a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. Neither Venus nor Serena let their adversities hold them back. They drew their greatest strength from each other.

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A teenager fleeing arrest and a police officer running from a violent mob find themselves trapped in the middle of a riot.

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A Tale Of Two Syrias is a snapshot of life before Syria’s uprising began, seen through the eyes of two people: Salem, an Iraqi refugee and fashion designer in Damascus and Botrus, a monk in the remote hillside monastery of Mar Musa. This film is about their dreams, discussions, and questions around freedom and choice in the year before Syria descended into serious conflict.

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Action sequences taken from three cinema films are turned into a semi-abstract experience in which the world is literally turned on its side. Material was taken from DVD’s purchased recently from charity shops in London, a further example of appropriating dominant cinema as a canvas for video art.

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David in a state of cocaine binge, believes that he has arranged a casual ‘hook-up’, only to realise that things are not as they seem when the stranger arrives… An experimental film that travels freely between past and present, and reality and illusion, raising questions about sexuality, religion and mortality.

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When Steve’s new GPS suddenly asks for help, he follows her instructions from sunny suburbia into the depths of an abandoned warehouse to a mysterious door.

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Feature documentary. A detailed, true to life, extraction, filmed over four months, of the day to day events... ups, downs and tribulations of a young reggae singer striving to break into the music industry in the U.K. Filmmaker Mark Brown wraps the audience up into the artists emotions revealing the excitement and disappointment that unfold through different stages of Bayo's attempts to make his music heard in the right circles.

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'Benny Loves Killing' is the story of a young student, Benny, making her horror film, her way. She flies in the face of everyone around her, jeopardising everything she has organised, and allowing her life to spiral out of control. But will she wake up to the horror in her own life?

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Grieving, drinking and smoking his way through life day by day, blues musician Jonah is compelled to go on a ghostly scavenger hunt by his recently deceased brother Rafe. Only it seems Rafe may have come along for the ride.

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Harriet has been on a long mission of self-destruction following a devastating loss. Bored at a party she meets James and sees an opportunity to score and have a more intoxicated evening. But she doesn’t count on such an instant, intimate connection with him. Can he help her?

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When David has had enough he decides to take his life. David notices a man in his room that he has never seen before. This is Death, the grim reaper. By accident he has got his appointments the wrong way round and has come to David too soon.

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A magical trip into the English countryside, where a lost soul is helped to find his way home by a friendly snail. Featuring Aidan Gillen (The Wire/Game of Thrones) and the voice of legendary folk singer Shirley Collins, as well as a soundtrack by cult Icelandic rockers Sigur Ros.