Projects with status: Complete

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Set in 1903, TRACKER is a manhunt drama in which Arjan (Ray Winstone), a guerrilla survivor of the South African Boer War, lands in colonial New Zealand and is promised a bounty to capture Kereama (Temuera Morrison), a Maori seafarer accused of killing a soldier.

What should be a simple job for Arjan, a master tracker, turns into a gripping and dangerous game of cat and mouse as Kereama repeatedly escapes and is recaptured, all the while insisting on his innocence. As each gains and loses the upper hand, they gradually get to know and respect each other. In an emotional and high-risk showdown, their tenuous bond is tested in the face of a military posse led by Major Carlyle (Gareth Reeves).

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A young boy, in transit through an airport, stumbles across the path of a desperate man and discovers a message he cannot ignore.

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An expose of Genocide in China of practitioners of the spiritual movement Falun Gong.

Survivor accounts of slave labour, forced-brainwashing, torture and attempted organ harvesting are drawn together with eminent experts, former Chinese Communist Party members and an investigative journalist, to discuss this contentious subject that increasingly involves the West.

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A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, Trash Humpers follows a small group of elderly 'Peeping Toms' through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality they crash against a torn and frayed America. Bordering on an ode to vandalism, it is a new type of horror; palpable and raw.

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Abigail and Jack have been together for a couple of years, but Jack's behaviour is becoming more and more sinister. He takes a lover, Sian, and treats both women with contempt. Sian and Abigail find out about each other, and decide to turn the tables on Jack.
 

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Short experimental video, featuring three sculptures by David Salkeld Shot at the North shields triangle, a regenerated residential triangle of old ship yard housing at Newcastle upon Tyne, intermixed with shots of the surrounding Tyne mouth area. To a sound track by the director Michael Salkeld to create an audio visual poem.

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In September 2007, 16 of the world's best b-boys battle one on one in a disused power station in the heart of Soweto, South Africa, to determine who will be the next world champion. Turn it Loose is a film about this competition.

Through the eyes of six competitors we leave behind any preconceived notions of what breakdance used to represent, and as the film digs deeper into their lives, we discover an extraordinary form of non-contact combat that has evolved over 30 years to become a truly 21st century global phenomenon, stretching the limits of physical capability and pushing dance itself to astonishing new heights.

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On his sixth birthday Robert receives three beautiful old ladies in his mother's sitting room. Through his eyes we visit the memory of an afternoon: gifts scuttle across the floor, strange visions appear between knobbly knees, and the bird-like ladies tell a magical tale of an emperor with no skin.

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Twinkletoes is Gerry’s pet, although he’s not real he is an intricate part of the routines and rituals that make up her daily life and has more than a few surprises up his furry sleeve.

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TXT ISLAND is a typographic adventure. An army of 'txt men' come to a tropical island. They plunder the island's resources and make it their own.

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A child's connection to the world.

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This is a story about how one man is using his retirement years to improve his neighbourhood.
For the last 5 years David has been walking around his local streets, with his dog Meg, picking-up litter and removing graffiti from walls and trees.
He finds it difficult to pass neglected public spaces and feels the need to try and improve the physical and social landscape around him.
His story is an example of a spirit and attitude that has often been eroded from our towns and cities as people keep themselves-to-themselves, feeling unable to contribute or affect their own communities.