Projects matching: Penny Woolcock

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Made from over 100 years of BFI archive footage, From the Sea to the Land Beyond offers a poetic meditation on Britain's unique coastline and the role it plays in our lives. With a soundtrack specially created by Brighton-based band British Sea Power, award-winning director Penny Woolcock's film offers moving testimony to our relationship to the coast - during wartime, on our holidays and as a hive of activity during the industrial age.

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One Mile Away tells the human side of gang violence and knife crime, of people who are both perpetrators and victims. These are issues that are hard to understand and seem impossible to resolve. This film is a rare opportunity to do both.

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1 Day is a high octane caper through a day in the life of an inner city hustler. The film follows Flash whose day gets steadily worse when he finds out he suddenly has to repay a debt to his big head, Angel, and he has to find the money fast. As more and more people get on his case and the clock starts ticking, Flash is pursued by everyone from a rival gang, the police, three irate babymothers and his granny.

Entirely street cast film, the film was shot on location in Birmingham. It features original hip hop and grime tracks - as well as gospel, reggae and spirituals -making it the first ever British hip hop film. While Flash gets robbed, harassed and shot at, the film explores life for many young men in the Afro-Caribbean community which originated the urban music at its heart.

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Exodus re-imagines the second book of the Old Testament set in the near future.

Shot in the English seaside town of Margate, Exodus involved the participation of local people in key roles both on and off screen and as the many hundreds of extras. The film tells a compelling story of identity and migration and great movements of peoples in search of a Promised Land.

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Mischief Night is an exuberant, wild and contemporary comedy drama about two families (one white, one Asian) who come together unexpectedly on a local night of carnival trickery and festivity.

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October 1985. Four young Palestinians - Omar, Mamoud, Rambo and Molqi - are lined up against a wall in an Italian police station. Marilyn Klinghoffer, an American woman, walks into the room and faces the men. She spits into the face of one of them, who glares back at her defiantly.
 
The film is a screen adaptation of John Adams' opera, based around the hijacking in 1985 of a cruise liner by Palestinian gunmen. The narrative is interspersed with flashbacks providing historical background and perspective to the event.

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The Principles of Lust is an emotionally charged drama about a man who must choose between the love of his life and the extreme temptations offered by his renegade friend.
 
Paul (Alec Newman) falls in love with Juliette (Sienna Guillory) and begins a passionate affair. At the same time, he befriends a charismatic and dangerous risk-taker, Billy (Marc Warren), who exposes Paul to a different side of life. When the initial fire in Juliette and Paul's relationship begins to wane, Paul is torn between settling down with her or following Billy on his quest for an endless high.