Projects matching: Peter Spence

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A group of unrelated adults are notified that they have won a competition to spend a night at the famously haunted Mermaid Hotel in Rye, Sussex, UK. They have not, however entered a competition. Soon after they arrive there is a murder and they find that they are locked in. The murders then begin in earnest as one by one they are killed with no visible sign of injury? As the murders continue the tension rises. Is the murderer a demon or something else supernatural or is it one of them. There is evil in the air and it looks like no-one will survive until the morning. Brad is the ghost hunter employed to conduct the ghost hunt but Brad is not quite as brave as he first appears!

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When a popular VIP is assassinated there is public outrage. A historian has unearthed a 400 year-old law that makes clear the assassin must be executed. Angus Angus a bright young politician is against the execution. However This generates media heat, and an unpopular government, only seven weeks from an election, sanctions the execution to win public favour. They decide to privatise it. Hugo is a prison governor beset with crises; career, money & marital. He is passed over for promotion, his much younger boss Mike Smith wants him out and his wife’s spending is pushing him towards bankruptcy. The American company operating the prison is granted the tender for the execution and Hugo is given the task by an area manager who wants Hugo to fail. Maurice is a conman who has intermittently spent almost thirty years in Hugo’s prison – they know each other well. Maurice has a proposal - a way to solve Hugo's money worries; pay-per-TV. The execution will be the biggest reality television event the world has ever seen!

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High on top of a building a man is going to jump to his death. His suicide starts a chain of events that impacts on several of the Town's peoples lives. Follow the Town's folk as we meet dodgy nightclub owners, a murderous couple on the hunt for a new home, a guilty lady, and a hit man with conscience.

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The remarkable story of a children’s party given by notorious punk group the Sex Pistols on Christmas Day 1977. The testimonies of those who were there, together with previously unseen footage of the Sex Pistols, reveals a largely unknown episode in the band’s history.

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An ex-steel worker returns home after many years away. He embarks on a journey of re-discovery in a changing city.

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A mythic recreation of the private world of the black artists and writers such as Langston Hughes who formed the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The film switches from archive footage to a stylized version of the jazz and blues era of Harlem to explore white society’s barriers against black homosexuality and self-imposed ‘discretion’.
Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Panorama Teddy 30