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Stone Pastures
2008 Director: Donagh Coleman
Status: Completed Length: 65 mins
Stone Pastures tells the story of a nomadic family living on the Himalayan plateau of Ladakh. In this high altitude cold desert, the nomads’ way of life ... read more
The Solitary Life of Cranes
2008 Director: Eva Weber
Status: Completed Length: 27 mins
The Solitary Life of Cranes takes the viewer on a journey high up in the sky, to look at London’s ever-changing landscape through the eyes and words of ... read more
King of South Shields
2008 Director: Tina Gharavi
Status: Completed Length: 24 mins
In 1977, the boxer Muhammad Ali travelled to the North East of England and was married in a mosque in South Shields. This film examines how this event ... read more
Every Other Friday
2008 Director: Sam Hunt
Status: Completed Length: 8 mins
Every other Friday for 25 years, Albert O’Conner (Albie) has run a disco at the Barrow-In-Furness Catholic Church Hall for those in the area with mental ... read more
The End of the Line
2008 Director: Rupert Murray
Status: Completed Length:
If we do nothing, the world’s oceans will be empty of fish within our lifetimes. This beautifully-filmed international documentary is a searing ... read more
Drum Room
2008 Director: Miranda Pennell
Status: Completed Length: 15min
The empty spaces of an ambiguous building open up to reveal a group of aspiring musicians as they play together, alone. Filmed within a music school, Drum ... read more
Sounds Like Teen Spirit: a Popumentary
2008 Director: Jamie Jay Johnson
Status: Completed Length: 100 mins
The outrageously talented Jamie Jay Johnson’s debut feature documentary marks the first partnership between the Foundation and the British Film ... read more
Life After the Fall
2008 Director: Kasim Abid
Status: Completed Length: 2hrs 35 mins
Life After the Fall is a unique insight into modern day Iraq, eloquently portrayed by Iraqi director Kasim Abid, who returned to his native country ... read more
Chosen
2008 Director: Brian Woods
Status: Completed Length: 100 mins
Chosen is testament to the power of a compelling story, simply told. It deals with a subject often whispered but rarely spoken about – the sexual abuse ... read more
Afghan Star
2008 Director: Havana Marking
Status: Completed Length: 87 mins
Through the eyes of young, talented and ambitious pop hopefuls all competing to become the next Afghan Star we experience the birth of a new, optimistic ... read more
Tres Pesos
2007 Director: Ruth Cross
Status: Completed Length: 58 mins
Unfolding in three chapters of rare intimacy and candour, Tres Pesos offers an insight into the everyday lives of young Cuban reggaeton musicians. Living ... read more
Small Town Boy
2007 Director: Moby Longinotto
Status: Completed Length: 23 mins
This wonderful short follows the courageous and isolated young David Birch as he prepares to ride through his small country village as the first ever, gay ... read more
Alive Day
2007 Director: Tom Eldridge
Status: Completed Length: 72 Mins
A feature documentary following young US veterans, injured in Iraq, as they take their first steps out of military care and down the Grand Canyon. Given ... read more
We are Together
2007 Director: Paul Taylor (d.) and Teddy Leifer (p.)
Status: Completed Length: 83 mins
Filmed over three years, We Are Together tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who use music to overcome hardship and loss. It is ... read more
Steal This Film II
2007 Director: Jamie King
Status: Completed Length: 60 mins
Professor and activist Jamie King has become a figurehead for the opposition in the war against file sharing. Steal This Film II explains how and why the ... read more
Living With the Tudors
2007 Director: Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope
Status: Completed Length: 83 mins
After 4 years of participation as costumed historical re-enactors, Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope were given unprecedented access with their cameras to the ... read more
Here’s Johnny
2007 Director: Adam Lavis, Kat Mansoor and Will Hood
Status: Completed Length: 60 mins
Here’s Johnny enters the surreal world of famous graphic artist Johnny Hicklenton, who is battling against Multiple Sclerosis. Living in an increasing ... read more
The Word Was God
2006 Director: Mark Boulos
Status: Completed Length: 15 mins
Filmmaker and artist Mark Boulos’ short film looks at language, religion, and the ecstasy of prayer: the film contrasts the last village in Syria where ... read more
Talk to Me
2006 Director: Mark Craig
Status: Completed Length: 23 mins
In 1985, Mark Craig bought an answer machine. He then kept every message it recorded… for 20 years! Talk To Me is a personal life journey from long-haired ... read more
Specky
2006 Director: Anne Claire- Pilley
Status: Completed Length: 20 mins
A short documentary musing how short-sighted people could have survived the Stone Age. Through a series of experiments involving her specky relatives, the ... read more
Sooner or Later
2006 Director: Paul J Cronin
Status: Completed Length: 85 mins
Using contemporary footage and archived out-takes of Haskell Wexler’s 1969 feature Medium Cool, Sooner or Later takes a lyrical look at the life of the ... read more
Sargy Mann
2006 Director: Peter Mann
Status: Completed Length: 40 mins
Sargy Mann is an inspiring story about one artist’s battle to overcome adversity in the shape of blindness, and continue his life’s work and passion, to ... read more
Reunion
2006 Director: Monica Magyarosy
Status: Completed Length: 40 mins
Filmed over a Memorial Day Weekend in Buffalo, New York, Reunion is a heartfelt, touching and frequently funny portrait of the very first reunion of an ... read more
Kimmie
2006 Director: Hazel Chandler
Status: Completed Length: 88 mins
Kimmie follows the journey of Liberian child’s rights activist, Kimmie Weeks, 23, as he returns home from exile in the USA for the first time in six ... read more
Heavy Water - A Film for Chernobyl
2006 Director: David Bickerstaff & Phil Grabsky
Status: Completed Length: 56 mins
Based on Mario Petrucci’s award-winning book-length Poem for Chernobyl; Heavy Water, this film tells the story of the people who dealt with the world’s ... read more
Farewell Song
2006 Director: Arthur and Luther Jones
Status: Completed Length: 76 mins
Since the communist takeover in 1949, China’s orchestras have been controlled and funded by the government. But as market economics returned to the ... read more
Bukom: the Fighting Spirit
2006 Director: George Amponsah
Status: Completed Length: 80 mins
The story of a Ghanaian fishing village, with a proud fighting tradition, which has become a Mecca for finding new boxing talent. The film becomes a ‘fish ... read more
How is Your Fish Today?
2006 Director: Xiaolu Guo
Status: Completed Length: 83 mins
A young man in southern China has killed his lover. He starts a lonely escape across the whole country towards his land of wonder, a snowy village at the ... read more
Guca
2006 Director: Milivoj Ilic
Status: Completed Length: 71 mins
Guca is the name of a small village in Serbia which for over 40 years has been home to the national trumpet festival. Once a small local affair, it now ... read more
Black Gold
2005 Director: Nick Francis and Marc Francis
Status: Completed Length:
Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry - worth over $80 billion - making coffee the most ... read more
Rear Projection
Director: Mark Lewis
Status: In Production Length:
A short documentary exploring the fabulous history and unique technique of cinematic rear projection, the method by which the ‘real’ was introduced into ... read more
Journey to the Moon
Director: Kutlug Ataman
Status: In Production Length:
Journey to the Moon explores an urban myth that in 1957, a group of villagers from Turkey’s remote Black Sea coast were conned by a local politician into ... read more
H2NY
Director: Michael Landy
Status: In Production Length:
Landy’s short documentary follows his attempts to recreate Jean Tinguely’s classic piece Homage to New York. This extraordinary work was originally ... read more
Shelter in Place
Director: Zed Nelson (director) & Hannah Patterson (producer)
Status: In Production Length:
In Texas, Oil refineries frequently release clouds of highly toxic chemicals into the environment. When these ‘accidents’ happen, as they do with ... read more
Murderers on the Dancefloor
Director: Sarah McCarthy
Status: In Production Length:
Murderers on the Dancefloor is the story of a tiny provincial jail in the Philippines which was catapulted into the global spotlight by a series of ... read more
Erasing David
Director: David Bond (d.) Ashley Jones (p.)
Status: In Production Length:
Last year a government letter arrived telling David Bond that his daughter, Ivy was among the 25 million UK residents whose details were lost by the ... read more
The Yes Men Fix the World
Director: Mike Bonnano, Andy Bichlbaum & Kurt Engfehr
Status: In Production Length:
This film is about disasters and risk - the risk that big business is prepared to take with our lives. Political pranksters, ‘The Yes Men’ have been ... read more
The Maze
Director: Donovan Wylie
Status: In Production Length:
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker and Magnum photographer Donovan Wylie charts the story of the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, from being a shining example ... read more
The Madman and the Cathedral
Director: James Rogan
Status: In Production Length:
In a small town not far from Madrid, a former monk has spent the last forty years single-handedly building a cathedral. With no planning permission and ... read more
Hackney Fandango
Director: Tom Hunter
Status: In Production Length:
Hackney Fandango is a short documentary charting a day in the life of one dancer in east London through the different dance forms practised in the area. ... read more
In Search of the Anti Christ
Director: Jamie Campbell & Joel Wilson
Status: In Production Length:
Filmmaking duo Jamie and Joel attempt to make sense of the US by immersing themselves in Rapture Theory rhetoric. Little known in the UK, over half of the ... read more
Moving to Mars
Director: Mat Whitecross (d.) and Karen Katz (p.)
Status: In Production Length:
Moving to Mars tells the story of two Karen Burmese families who have been housed in a refugee camp on the Thai borders since fleeing the repressive ... read more
Burning Needs
Director: Adam Wakeling
Status: In Production Length:
In the face of runaway climate change and a global food crisis, a quiet revolution has begun. At its core is an agricultural system that could ... read more

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