Projects matching: Virginia Heath

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Two strangers meet through a Lift Share website: a young Romanian woman, desperate to find her child, and a Scottish musician reluctant to attend his violent father's funeral. In shifting time perspectives, they imagine what might await them as they journey towards the remote, haunting beauty of the Outer Hebrides.

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Compiled with artistry and love from Scottish Screen film archives, Director Virginia Heath’s film is a journey into our collective past. From Scotland with Love explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, powerfully evoke Scotland’s story with an acclaimed soundtrack by King Creosote.

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A young surfer is caught between his dominating mentor and his passion for a mysterious Maori woman tattooist. Despite warnings that she could be the sea goddess of death, he is drawn into her ambiguous world of pain and pleasure. A dangerous, erotic journey of surf, sex and ritual tattoo.

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Relativity is a funny, sexy, look at the fragmenting family. Seven-year-old Cielle, her black British mother Marcia and latest boyfriend Frank describe a minor domestic 'accident'. One event, three different versions. But which, if any, is the truth? By chance, Cielle reveals the comic absurdity of modern existence.

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The unexpected gift of a fridge puts the freeze on love.

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The Manhattan Brothers wrote and sang 'Township Jazz' music during 1940s and 50s in South Africa. With over 150 hits, they sold millions of records, but their record company, Gallo Records, paid them using petty cash vouchers and hardly anything in royalties. Exiled from South Africa for almost thirty years, Joe Mogotsi now returns to find out if, in the 'new' South Africa, past injustices will be redressed.