Projects with status: Complete

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Shot in the run up to the 2008 Olympics, this documentary follows Aifeng, a young sex worker in a Beijing massage parlour. Like many migrant workers in modern China she is struggling to support her family back home. When she suddenly loses her job, Aifeng faces her biggest challenge yet.

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The search for the meaning behind the unwrapped and unusual objects that Paul Smith, the fashion designer, has been receiving in the post for the last 20 years, from a mystery person.

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A heart felt comedy drama about a disillusioned man caught between his dream retirement holiday and his eccentric mother’s last dying wish: to re-unite his dysfunctional Jewish family.  

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Bullfighting endures the stigma of animal cruelty yet also holds the grace and elegance of tradition. This paradox evokes an inner conflict rarely addressed. Red Sands is an objective and Eisenstein-esque documentary, raising questions about age old tradition and its future.

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A 'slacker revenge movie' set in Austin, Texas.

Erica (Amanda Fuller) lives rent-free in the local co-op, but spends her nights trawling the bars and beds of Austin. Damaged, emotionally withdrawn, never really connecting with anyone, sleeping with men is just what she does - until she meets the older and mysterious Nate (Noah Taylor), working in a hardware store, but with an 'honorable discharge' from Iraq.

Despite his quiet air of danger, Nate's the only guy who doesn't seem to want to get her into bed at the first opportunity, and the two form a hesitant bond. But one of Erica's casual sexual encounters is about to bite back.

Franki (Marc Senter) is a young, hot-headed wannabe rock star trying to make it big. Looking after a sick mother and estranged from his longterm girlfriend, he 'shared' Erica with his buddies one drunken evening on the tiles. A shocking twist of fate is all it takes to throw his already crazy world into a spin, and in Franki's eyes there is only one person to blame.

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Written and Directed by the creators of Shank, Darren Flaxstone and Christian Martin, Release is a love story that thematically explores the hypocrisy that society thrives on and which fuels prejudice and hatred. Emotionally rich and varied the story seeks to touch upon the honesty of true love and the deception of ideology, theology and morality.

Father Jack Gillie (Daniel Brocklebank) enters prison a guilty man, convicted for a crime that sees the Church abandon him, his congregation desert him and his faith challenged. His fellow inmates believe he's been convicted of paedophilia and begin to plant the seed of doubt into the mind of his teenage cellmate, Rook (Wayne Virgo). After rescuing Rook from a beating Jack now becomes the inmates prey. Protection comes in the unlikely form of a prison officer, Martin (Garry Summers) with whom Jack falls in love and together they embark on a dangerous and illicit affair behind cell doors. As trust forms between the two men so Jack feels enabled to confess the truth behind the crime for which he has been imprisoned. Emboldened by Jack's honesty the two men plan their lives together post Jack's release.

Prison gang leader Max (Bernie Hodges), however has ulterior objectives and sets about ruining this relationship and manipulates the Governess, Heather (Dymphna Skehill), into suspending Martin for misconduct after disclosing the affair. Alone and vulnerable Jack is now tormented and hunted by Max who takes revenge on him for his crime.

Waking from the near fatal actions of Max, Jack keeps his head down and bides his time comforted by letters of love and support from Martin - delivered with disgust and loathing by one of Martin's colleagues. With the end of his sentence in sight Jack readies himself for a new life and a new beginning with Martin. The only obstacle to this tabula rasa remains Max and Father Elliott (Dave Jones) the Church's messenger sent to establish what Jack's intentions are once free.

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Resurrecting 'The Street Walker' tells the story of James R Parker, a wannabe filmmaker who happens upon an abandoned horror movie in the basement of the London production company for whom he is working as intern.

Spotting an opportunity to get noticed and maybe even make some money, James sets out to complete this long forgotten, unfinished, video nasty, sparking a chain of events which culminate in an act of terrible and shocking violence. Taking the form of multi-layered faux documentary, this is a study in obsession, unchecked ambition and a descent into madness.

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Two twins who look a lot like each other decided to see who was best at being a ringmaster.

Surreal constructions of movements, captured on Super 8 depicting a competitive, vicious streak of a female.

An exploration of coded choreography, the female form re-telling the male domain of a ringmaster.

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Furious after listening to the preacher at his dads funeral, spouting the usual half truths about the deceased, Rip storms off with his mate. On route he is confronted by a zealous street preacher who pushes Rip to the brink. The preachers faith is put to the ultimate test.

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Machines are rising up and taking over the world. Except this time they're not cool cyborgs, they're everyday household domestic gadgets, like Brevilles and Dysons. One family from a South Wales housing estate, who have filled their home with needless electronic appliances, are forced to defend themselves once their gadgets go bad.

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Mick takes his estranged son out for his birthday; a man desperate to prove he's changed. But drink and the simmering violence of match day in London brings out the worst in him over a long, difficult afternoon for father and son.

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A socially awkward Londoner is lonely at Christmas. When a cold city girl rejects his gesture of goodwill, he takes drastic action. Roar is a smart and subversive short film that will haunt you for months.