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UK DOCUMENTARIES 2018
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 6
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES 26
COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 34
UK DOCUMENTARY – AN OVERVIEW 42
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 44
BRITISH COUNCIL AND FESTIVALS 46
BRITISH COUNCIL AND SHORTS 48
OTHER GLOBAL PROJECTS 50
INDEX OF FILMS 52
Cover: Black Sheep, Director: Ed Perkins
1ST Directorial debuts are indicated with this symbol
All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may
not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders. 3
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the 2018 UK Documentaries Catalogue We work with the Scottish Documentary Institute on Stories,
presented by British Council. a major programme of creative documentary workshops
helping international filmmakers in challenging areas to give
We’re proud to be championing new and upcoming UK films authentic voices to their work. The resulting short docs have
and filmmakers to programmers and audiences around the screened at many major festivals. Read more about it at
world. This catalogue includes details of selected UK feature- scottishdocinstitute.com/opportunities/stories
length and short documentaries that have been released in
2017 and 2018, as well as flagging up some feature-length We are partnering One World Media to pioneer the Global
documentary productions due for release later this year. Short Docs Forum, a brand new initiative to nurture new
talent in documentary shorts, giving them access to the
We work with a number of partners to support and promote growing number of digital media platforms. You can find out
excellence in documentary through a range of activities more about it at globalshortdocs.com
spanning both exhibition and skills development.
This PDF catalogue will be updated periodically
We have a long-term partnership with The Grierson Trust, an throughout the year. You will be able to download it at
organisation that exists to promote documentary filmmaking film.britishcouncil.org/british-films-directory/uk-film-
and holds the annual Grierson Awards, which enables us catalogues
to screen a wide range of outstanding UK documentaries
internationally. Read about them at griersontrust.org/ You can view the entire British Films Directory listing both
grierson-awards/the-grierson-awards short and feature length films, as well as further directories
listing filmmakers and festivals, at britishcouncil.org/film
We bring international delegates to attend Sheffield Doc/
Fest, a world-leading annual festival celebrating the art and
business of documentary and all non-fiction storytelling.
You can find more information at sheffdocfest.com/view/
aboutdocfest
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Of Fish and Foe, Director: Heike Bachelier, Andy Heathcote 5
6 FEATURE-LENGTH
DOCUMENTARIES
FEATURE-LENGTH
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A., Director: Steve Loveridge
1ST
Almost Heaven Arcadia
Synopsis Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Ying Ling is away from home training From the earliest days of movie-making to the present day,
to become a mortician at one of China’s largest funeral through rare and unseen footage, we see the changing
homes. Despite her fear of ghosts and dead bodies, she relationship the British have with their land. From images
learns the spa rituals; cleaning and massaging the corpses of local celebrations and festivals to agricultural practices
while the grieving families look on. Ying Ling finds solace through the seasons, village life and lost crafts.
from her macabre role through her playful banter with
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - World
another of the young morticians. Together, they spend their
premiere
time off talking about their hopes, fears and plans for the
future. As one of many rural-to-urban teenagers working
Details
to support her family, Ying Ling must immerse herself in
Year: 2017
the surreal and grinding world of China’s industrialisation
Running Time: 78 mins
of mortality. With intimate access and moments of humour,
Director: Paul Wright
we follow Ying Ling as she learns about life while
Producer: John Archer, Mark Atkin, Adrian Cooper
surrounded by death.
Executive Producer: Mary Burke
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Generation 14plus - World Music: Adrian Utley, Will Gregory
premiere
Details
Year: 2017
Running Time: 72 mins
Director: Carol Salter
Producer: Carol Salter
Executive Producer: Elhum Shakerifar
Editor: Cinzia Baldessari, Hoping Chen, Rodrigo Saquel
Director of Photography: Carol Salter
Sound: Peter Hodges
Music: Terence Dunn
Sound Designer: Raoul Brand
Film Image: © Carol Salter
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Rocksalt Films Rocksalt Films A Hopscotch Films, Crossover, Hopscotch Films
Carol Salter Carol Salter Common Ground production with John Archer
rocksaltfilms@gmail.com rocksaltfilms@gmail.com the support of the British Film john@hopscotchfilms.co.uk
Institute (BFI) National Archive.
Hakawati (UK sales)
Elhum Shakerifar Hopscotch Films
info@hakawati.co.uk John Archer
john@hopscotchfilms.co.uk
www.hopscotchfilms.co.uk
Common Ground
Lower Dairy
Toller Fratrum
Dorset DT2 0EL
+44 (0)1300 320013
www.commonground.org.uk
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 7
The Ballad of Shirley Collins Becoming Animal
Synopsis Synopsis
When we started this journey several years ago, there was no Examining the relationship between ourselves and the
expectation at all that Shirley would ever sing again. What other species we share the planet with has opened up new
initially attracted us to making the movie was Shirley’s deep ways to understand our place in the world. This film offers
commitment to English folk tradition, and her little-known an attempt to give some of these new ways of thinking a
involvement in arguably the most important field-recording cinematic form. An essay based on a field trip to Wyoming’s
trip of all time; back in 1959 with her then-lover, the iconic wild nature, in the company of the bio-philosopher David
ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. The film was going to be Abram and the two visionary filmmakers Emma Davie and
about the past, and about the 30 years she had spent living Peter Mettler. And with an abundance of bison, moose and
without the thing she loved most. It’s been an absolute birds. Both form and thought are unchained in a film that
privilege to be with Shirley on this long journey back to her ends up moving (far) beyond man’s self-centred view of
singing again, and along the way, the film has evolved into nature, and into a state of almost psychedelic receptiveness.
something we never expected. As Mettler asks in a diaristic note: Are language and modern
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - technology a barrier or an open door between ourselves and
International premiere the world that surrounds us? And what about the medium of
film itself?
Details Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - World premiere
Year: 2017
Running Time: 93 mins Details
Director: Rob Curry, Tim Plester Year: 2018
Producer: Rob Curry, Tim Plester, Paul Williams Running Time: 78 mins
Executive Producer: James Nicholls Director: Emma Davie, Peter Mettler
Editor: Rob Curry, Tim Plester Producer: Cornelia Seitler, Rebecca Day, Sonja Henrici,
Screenwriter: Rob Curry, Tim Plester Brigitte Hofer
Director of Photography: Richard Mitchell Editor: Peter Mettler
Sound: Sound Recordist: Ludovic Lasserre, Justin Smith; Director of Photography: Peter Mettler
Re-recording Mixer: Michael Wabro
Music: Ossian Brown, Michael J. York
With contributions from: Shirley Collins, Stewart Lee, Lotti
Maddox, Sam Amidon, David Tibet, Elle Osbourne, Ossian
Brown, Stephen Thrower, Ian Kearey
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
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SDI Productions (UK)
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8 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
1ST
Being Frank: The Chris A Deal with the Universe
Sievey Story
Synopsis Synopsis
The fantastic true story of the maverick mind behind Frank Jason Barker’s debut feature documentary ‘A Deal With
Sidebottom and The Freshies, as told by the people who The Universe’ is a very personal chronicle of becoming a
knew him. Chris Sievey was a Manchester performance artist, parent. Drawing on the filmed diaries made over the last ten
punk performer and stand-up comic who lived an elaborate years that document both Jason’s transgender journey as
double life. His most famous creation was Frank Sidebottom, well has his parental journey. This film is groundbreaking in
with his huge papier-mâché head, but this was far more terms of it’s intimate insights into gender identity and new
than an eccentric comedy performance. As long as the head parenthood.
was on, Chris transformed totally into Frank and the line
between fiction and reality blurred. Very few people got Details
to understand the man behind the mask, and sadly Sievey Year: 2018
passed away in June 2010. For the first time Sievey’s Running Time: 90 mins
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2018 - World premiere Director: Jason Barker
Producer: Loran Dunn
Details Executive Producer: Natasha Dack Ojumu
Year: 2018 Editor: Rachel Meyrick
Running Time: 100 mins Screenwriter: Jason Barker
Director: Steve Sullivan Director of Photography: Jason Barker
Producer: Steve Sullivan Music: Hutch Demouilpied
Executive Producer: Alex Usborne, Adam Partridge, Consultant Editor: Chris Wyatt
Thomas R Atherton
Editor: Steve Sullivan
Screenwriter: Steve Sullivan
Director of Photography: Ezra Byrne
Production Designer: Dave Arnold
Sound: Sound Designer: Dai Shell; Sound Recordist:
Dom Corbisiero
Music: Chris Sievey, Frank Sidebottom
With contributions from: John Cooper Clarke, Johnny Vegas,
Mark Radcliffe, Ross Noble, John Thompson, Mike Joyce,
Jon Ronson
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Being Frank Productions, Piece Bridge Independent Delaval Film Ltd Altitude Film Sales
of Cardboard Productions Ltd Bill Straus Loran Dunn 34 Foubert’s Place
film produced in association with bill@bridgeindependent.com Old Granada Studios London
Ffilm Cymru Wales, 104 Films, Fat Quay Street W1F 7PX
Controller Management Ltd. Manchester +44 (0)20 7612 0662
M3 3JE info@altitudefilment.com
Being Frank Productions
loran@delavalfilm.com www.altitudefilment.com
Steve Sullivan
www.delavalfilm.com
steve@beingfrankmovie.com
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 9
1ST
Even When I Fall Fred
Synopsis Synopsis
The incredible story of Saraswoti and Sheetal, trafficking A sombre and intimate portrait of notorious villain Freddie
survivors who reclaim skills that once came at a high cost: Foreman, now aged 85 and seeking a catharsis from his sins.
they were slaves in Indian circuses – sold as children. Now The former London gangster Freddie Foreman is the only
freed, together they form Nepal’s first circus. An intimate, one of his generation who survived the English underworld
beautiful film that harnesses the visual power of circus to long enough to be able to tell the tale. And this is exactly
give a unique perspective into the complex world of human what he does in ‘Fred’: Tells his story. Today, he is 85 years
trafficking. old and lives alone in a nursing home, allegedly with several
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017 - World premiere murders to his name and with his memories intact. A long
and critical interview with the East End boy who grew up in
Details the turbulent era of the war and became one of London’s
Year: 2017 most notorious gangsters in the 1960s and 1970s, when he
Running Time: 93 mins hung out with pop stars and football players, is the thread
Director: Sky Neal, Kate McLarnon running through Paul van Carter’s self-reflective portrait of
Producer: Elhum Shakerifar the criminal mastermind. A film that balances between true
Editor: Alice Powell crime, deep journalism and colourful cock-and-bull tales
Director of Photography: Ben Marshall from another era with Swinging London as its backdrop.
Sound: Dennis Wheatley The conversation with the charismatic Foreman unfolds
against a richly detailed (pop-)cultural and historical
background, where myth and truth meet – not least when
he visits the set of the Tom Hardy film ‘Legend’. Dark
psychology and captivating storytelling in a masterful film.
(CPH:DOX brochure)
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - World premiere
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 85 mins
Director: Paul Van Carter
Producer: Nick Taussig, Paul Van Carter
Executive Producer: David Rogers, Marcus Searancke,
Alena Walker
Editor: Tom Meadmore
Screenwriter: Paul Van Carter
Director of Photography: Gregory Taylor
Music: Composer: Martin Dubka; Music Supervisor: Phillip
Horatio Bush
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Postcode Films C International Sales A Salon Pictures production with Kew Media
info@postcodefilms.com Camille Cheneval support from Premiere Pictures 19 Heddon Street
www.postcodefilms.com 36 Shepherd Market London
Salon Pictures
London W1B 4BG
Unit 5B Rudolf Place
W1J 7QR +44 (0)20 7851 6500
Miles Street
camille.cheneval@cintsales.com info@kewmedia.com
London
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SW8 1RP
+44 (0)773 856 0860
info@salonpictures.co.uk
www.salonpictures.co.uk
10 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
General Magic Grace Jones: Bloodlight
and Bami
Synopsis Synopsis
The side of Silicon Valley you never see, a tale of how great Larger than life, wild, scary and androgynous – Grace
vision and epic failure can change the world. Spun out from Jones plays all these parts. Yet here we also discover her
Apple in 1990 to create the ‘next big thing’, the ideas that as a lover, daughter, mother, sister and even grandmother…
now dominate the tech industry and our day-to-day lives The stage is where her most extreme embodiments are
were born at General Magic. The first smartphones. Social realised and her theatrical imagination lets loose... With
media. E-commerce. Even the beloved emoji. But this was unique performances of iconic hits such as ‘Slave To The
before the web, before 3G, before Google, before everyone Rhythm’, ‘Pull Up To The Bumper’, as well as more recent
had a mobile phone in their pocket. The world was not ready autobiographical tracks ‘Williams’ Blood’ and ‘Hurricane’,
in 1994 to hold the world in its hands. And though General these personal songs also link to Grace’s family life, as
Magic died, those concepts and the people who pioneered the film follows a holiday road trip across Jamaica, where
them went on to change almost everything. Combining rare her roots and the story of her traumatic childhood are
archive footage with contemporary stories of the Magicians uncovered. In Jamaican patois, ‘Bloodlight’ is the red light
today, this documentary tracks the progress of anytime, that illuminates when an artist is recording and ‘Bami’
anywhere communication from a thing of sci-fi fiction in means bread, the substance of daily life. Sophie Fiennes’
1994 to a reality in our pockets and on our wrists today. film weaves together the layers of Grace Jones’ public and
With members of the original Mac team and the creators of private life, as she moves effortlessly between different
the iPhone, Android, eBay and more, this is the story of one facets... This is a Grace we have not seen before, someone
of history’s most talented teams and what happens when who reminds us of what it is to dare to be truly alive.
those who dream big fail, fail again, fail better and ultimately
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 -
succeed.
TIFF Docs - World premiere
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Spotlight
Documentary – World premiere Details
Year: 2017
Details Running Time: 115 mins
Year: 2018 Director: Sophie Fiennes
Running Time: 90 mins Producer: Katie Holly, Sophie Fiennes, Beverly Jones,
Director: Sarah Kerruish, Matt Maude Shani Hinton
Producer: Sarah Kerruish, Matt Maude Executive Producer: Christine Langan, Joe Oppenheimer,
Co-Producer: Ceri Tallett, Dee Gardetti Lizzie Francke, Keith Potter, Francesca von Habsburg,
Executive Producer: Reynold D’Silva, John Giannadrea, Danielle Ryan, Alan Maher, James Wilson, Émilie Blézat
Michael Stern Editor: Sophie Fiennes
Editor: Claire Ferguson, Anna Meller Director of Photography: Remko Schnorr
Screenwriter: Sarah Kerruish, Jonathan Key, Matt Maude, Music: Grace Jones; Musical Director: Ivor Guest
Michael Stern, Ceri Tallett With contributions from: Grace Jones, Jean-Paul Goude,
Director of Photography: Jay Maude, Matt Maude Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare
Sound: Alastair Sirkitt
Film Image: © Grace Jones; Sligoville Limited; Blinder Films
Music: Benji Merrison, Martin Phipps
Limited; BFI; BBC 2017
Principal Cast: Tony Fadell, Marc Porat, Megan Smith
Financed by BBC Films (UK), BFI Film Fund (UK), Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/
Film Image: © Spellbound II Productions Irish Film Board (IE), Roads Entertainment (IE) in cooperation with ZDF/Arte (DE)
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
US, UK coproduction Cinetic Media UK, Ireland coproduction WestEnd Films
555 W. 25th Street, 4th Floor Shepherds Building Central
Spellbound II Productions (US), A Sligoville (UK)/ Amoeba
New York Charecroft Way
Left Eye Blind Productions (UK) Film (UK) & Blinder Films (IE),
NY 10001 London
production.
Left Eye Blind Productions +1 212 204 7979 W14 0EE
Matt Maude www.cineticmedia.com Sligoville Limited and Amoeba +44 (0)20 7494 8300
113 Hackney Downs Studios Film Ltd info@westendfilms.com
London c/o Blinder Films www.westendfilms.com
E8 2BT +353 1 677 8540
matthewmaude@gmail.com info@blinderfilms.com
www.blinderfilms.com
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 111ST 1ST
Granny Project Harmony
Synopsis Synopsis
How does memory work? How can experiences be handed Set against the backdrop of Chelyabinsk, one of Russia’s
down from generation to generation? How does the act of most industrially brutal and polluted cities, ‘Harmony’
narration change the experience? Three young men and their explores social and gender dynamics of Russian youth
grannies go on a quest for their historic and personal legacy. through the paradigms and preconceptions of the country’s
There’s the British spy with a bone-dry sense of humour, the most prominent sports: ice hockey and rhythmic gymnastics.
Hungarian communist who survived the Holocaust and the The two respectively embody Russia’s nationalistic
German dancer whose look back turns out to be the most interpretation of hyper-masculine and feminine ideals
difficult… When the three grannies sit around a table with and are examined through straddling the boundaries of
their grandsons and various interpreters we realise that two documentary verite and visual art. Here, sport gathers
things at least are necessary to really bring the past and broader meaning —reflecting the traits and obsessions of
present in contact: an honest interest in one’s opposite party society as a whole.
and a good translation. (Dok Leipzig brochure 2017)
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - World premiere
Official Selection Dok Leipzig 2017 - World premiere
Details
Details Year: 2018
Year: 2017 Running Time: 71 mins
Running Time: 91 mins Director: Frederick Paxton
Director: Bálint Révész Producer: Maria Babikova, Frederick Paxton
Producer: Bálint Révész, László Kántor Editor: Andrew Cross
Co-Producer: Ruben Woodin-Dechamps, Meredith Director of Photography: Frederick Paxton
Colchester, Mariann Kiss, Editor: Károly Szalay Sound: Guy Chase
Screenwriter: Meredith Colchester, Ruben Woodin- Music: Music Featuring: Oscar Powell, Tommy Cash, Blue
Dechamps, Bálint Révész Hawaii, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Arthur Delaney
Director of Photography: Ruben Woodin-Dechamps Film Title Note: aka Chelyabinsk
Sound: Gábor Erdélyi Jr.
Music: Albert Márkos
With contributions from: Rosanne Colchester, Gudrun
Dechamps, Lívia Révész, Meredith Colchester, Ruben
Woodin-Dechamps, Bálint Révész Associate Producer:
Orban Wallace, Patricia D’Intino, Ágnes Horváth Szabó
Film Image: @Gallivant Film Ltd.
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
UK, Hungary coproduction UK, Russia coproduction Sales Enquries
Gallivant Film (UK), Új Budapest Maria Babikova
Frederick Paxton
Filmstudió (HU) babikova.maria@gmail.com
Freddie@frederickpaxton.com
www.mariababikova.com
Gallivant Film
Maria Babikova Freddie Paxton
Universal House
babikova.maria@gmail.com Freddie@frederickpaxton.com.
25-33 Southwark Street
www.mariababikova.com
London Festival Enquiries
SE1 1RQ Together Films
www.gallivantfilm.com Huckletree, Mediaworks
Balint Revesz 191 Wood Lane
+44 (0)7925258106 London
rev.balint@gmail.com W12 7FP
+44 (0)20 3286 9585
Hello@TogetherFilms.org
www.togetherfilms.org
12 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIESThe Ice King The Image You Missed
Synopsis Synopsis
A searing documentary of a lost cultural icon. A story of art, An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged
sport, sexuality, and rebellion. Watch any figure skating and father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through
it falls into two camps: before and after John Curry. From MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in
what was a macho, technical sport whose judges punished Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique and
deviation, blossomed – through John Curry’s stubborn never-seen-before imagery, The Image You Missed is a
beauty – ice-dancing. After winning gold at the Winter documentary essay film that weaves together a history of
Olympics for a rebelliously balletic routine, audiences and the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ with the story of a son’s search
reviewers alike were enthralled by his genius. But Curry’s for his father. In the process, the film creates a candid
story is about more than skating. On the night of the final, encounter between two filmmakers born into different
Curry became the first openly gay Olympian at a time when political moments, revealing their contrasting experiences
homosexuality was barely legal. From bullying and prejudice, of Irish nationalism, the role of images in social struggle, and
to relief in the gay underworld, to his untimely death from the competing claims of personal and political responsibility.
AIDS, Curry’s story dovetails with the experiences of a
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 -
generation. This is the story of a man whose body was a
World premiere
battleground. From love affairs, to violence in sex clubs, to its
‘unmanly’ elegance on the ice, every act was rebellion. John
Details
Curry was no activist, but an artist expressing his authentic
Year: 2018
self – yet in a world where his existence was taboo, his life
Running Time: 74 mins
was unavoidably political.
Director: Donal Foreman
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - International premiere Producer: Donal Foreman
Executive Producer: Nicole Brenez, Philippe Grandrieux
Details Editor: Donal Foreman
Year: 2018 Director of Photography: Arthur MacCaig, Donal Foreman,
Running Time: 89 mins Seán Brennan
Director: James Erskine Sound: Sound Editor: Andrew Kirwan
Producer: Victoria Gregory Music: Michael Buckley, Ohal Grietzer. Christopher
Co-Producer: Luc Tremoulet Colm Morrin
Executive Producer: Alex Holmes, Anna Godas,
Emma Cahusac, Kirsty Bell, Oli Harbottle, Tony Miller
Editor: Steve Parkinson
Screenwriter: James Erskine
Director of Photography: Paul Williams
Sound: Jack Gillies
Music: Stuart Hancock, Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
With contributions from: Johnny Weir, Cathy Foulkes, David
Spungen, Heinz Wirz, Lorna Brown, Meg Streeter Lauck
Film Images: © Christie Jenkins Photography
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
New Black Films Limited Dogwoof Ireland, France, US, UK Donal Foreman
5 Denmark Street 19-23 Ironmonger Row coproduction donalforeman@gmail.com
London London
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info@newblackfilms.com info@dogwoof.com
www.newblackfilms.com www.dogwoof.com
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 131ST
Island Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Synopsis Synopsis
Across the water on the island, four individuals experience A cinematic hybrid film which tells the tragedy of Australia’s
the end of life. Showing rarely seen and intensely private biggest offshore refugee detention centre against the
events, the film follows the progression of illness for each backdrop of seemingly ordinary life on this remote Island.
character and, for one, the last days and hours of life, the Christmas Island, home to the famous red crabs, itself is a
moment of death, and after death care. A lyrical, slow protagonist and in its beautiful yet threatening landscape
cinema description of the temporality and phenomena of we witness past and present moments of chaotic human
dying, this film sensitively witnesses the transition away from migrations, that play out in stark contrast to its own
personhood. This is a palliative island, the Isle of Wight, an ancient rhythms. Through stories of the islands first human
enigmatic landscape where all around rituals persist. Parallel migrations and the natural phenomenon of the annual
to bedside vigils and the rhythm of breathing, we see rescue crab migration, we come to arrive at a darker side of this
owls on the hospice ward, the rugged coastline, and the seemingly idyllic paradise. Hidden in the core of the jungle
constant ferry arrivals. A choir rehearses Brahm’s ‘German sits Australia’s biggest offshore refugee detention centre.
Requiem’. In the hospital pathology lab, microscopic close- It was built to not be seen, yet in this film every encounter
ups of cancer show the interior of the bodies, our biology, takes us closer, every direction leads us there. The crab
our creatureliness. Death is presented as natural and migration comes to serve as an allegory for the natural
everyday but also unspeakable and strange. movements of migration. ancient and timeless. The natural
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - spectacle sits in stark contrast to the chaotic human
International premiere movements and entrapment that are senseless and absurd.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Documentary
Details Competition - World premiere
Year: 2017
Running Time: 90 mins Details
Director: Steven Eastwood Year: 2018
Producer: Steven Eastwood, Elhum Shakerifar Running Time: 93 mins
Editor: Steven Eastwood, with Sergio Vega Director: Gabrielle Brady
Director of Photography: Steven Eastwood Producer: Alexander Wadouh, Samm Haillay, Alex Kelly,
Funded by: Arts Council England and Big Lottery Gizem Acarla, Gabrielle Brady
Co-Producer: Julia Niethammer
Executive Producer: Lizzie Franke, Sarah Perks
Editor: Katharina Fiedler
Screenwriter: Gabrielle Brady
Director of Photography: Michael Latham
Sound: Leo Dolgan
Music: Aaron Cupples
Principal Cast: Poh-Lin Lee
Film Image: © Chromosom GmbH
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Paradogs Films Australia, Germany, UK Autlook Filmsales
Steven Eastwood coproduction Spittelberggasse 3/14
paradogsfilm@gmail.com 1070 Vienna
Third Films
Austria
Hakawati Samm Haillay
+43 7203 46934
Elhum Shakerifar Kingsland Church Studios
welcome@autlookfilms.com
elhum@hakawati.co.uk Priory Green
www.autlookfilms.com
Byker
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE6 2DW
+44 (0)7866 559541
office@thirdfilms.co.uk
www.thirdfilms.co.uk
14 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Kingdom of Us
Never to Play Football
Synopsis Synopsis
Soccer stars were at the centre of the scene in the Walking the liminal space between perception and memory
glamorous nightlife meccas of 1980s Brazil. But in their midst the film charts the emotional recovery of a family as they
Carlos Kaiser, one of the biggest sports celebrities of his come to terms with their father’s suicide that left them
generation harbored a secret: He had never played a single in financial ruin seven years ago. As they piece together
game. fragments of a broken past, questions of memory, identity
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - World premiere and love must be faced before the family can embrace the
future. Combining family home video archive with intimate
Details footage captured in the West Midlands over two years,
Year: 2018 director Lucy Cohen examines how tragedy struggles
Running Time: 96 mins towards hope.
Director: Louis Myles Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 -
Producer: Louis Myles, Tom Markham Documentary Competition - World premiere
Executive Producer: Stewart Till, Rob Fullam,
BAFTA Nomination 2018 - Outstanding Debut by a British
Stefan Choynowski, Ray Mills
Writer, Director or Producer
Editor: Steve Williams
Screenwriter: Louis Myles, Ivor Baddiel
Details
Director of Photography: Steve Middleditch, Will Billany
Year: 2017
Music: Composer: Smith & Elms; Music Supervisors: Ian Neil
Running Time: 109 mins
& Laurence Kaye
Director: Lucy Cohen
With contributions from: Carlos Henrique Raposo, Carlos
Producer: Julia Nottingham
Alberto Torres, Zico, Bebeto, Renato Gaúcho, Ricardo Rocha
Executive Producer: Mary Burke, Marisa Clifford, Ben Cotner,
Celine Haddard, Fergus Haycock, Lisa Nishimura, Sam
Sniderman, Jason Spingarn-Koff, Steve Warr
Editor: Michael Aaglund, Stephen Haren, Maya Maffioli
Screenwriter: Lucy Cohen
Director of Photography: Charlie Goodger
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FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 151ST
Lek and the Dogs MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.
Synopsis Synopsis
Experimental artist and auteur Andrew Kotting creates Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage
a groundbreaking crossover between narrative film and compiled over the last 22 years, this is an intimate portrait of
contemporary art piece, based on the award-winning play the Sri Lankan musician’s remarkable journey from immigrant
by Hattie Naylor. The film is inspired by the true story of teenager in London to international popstar M.I.A., an artist
Ivan Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment who continues to shatter conventions.
at the age of four and spent two years living on the city
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - World
streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs. In the
Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere
recession-ravaged city, Ivan’s human world was dominated
by deprivation and violence; his only hope was to turn to
Details
feral dogs for company, protection and warmth. Kotting’s
Year: 2018
spellbinding and utterly original story of survival conjures the
Running Time: 97 mins
streets of Moscow in the 1990s through the eyes of a child,
Director: Steve Loveridge
drawing on a range of innovative modes and techniques to
Producer: Lori Cheatle, Andrew Goldman, Paul Mezey
produce a montage essay on the state of the world.
Co-Producer: Josh Rappaport
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - Executive Producer: Philipp Engelhorn, Michael Raisler
International premiere Editor: Marina Katz, Gabriel Rhodes
Sound: Sound Design: Ron Bochar
Details Music: Music Supervisor: Tracy McKnight
Year: 2017
Running Time: 92 mins
Director: Andrew Kötting
Producer: Nick Taussig, Paul Van Carter
Co-Producer: Andrew Kötting
Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Ian Berg,
Christopher J Reynolds
Editor: Andrew Kotting
Screenwriter: Hattie Naylor (play), Andrew Kötting (script)
Director of Photography: Nick Gordon Smith
Sound: Nick Gordon Smith, Andrew Kotting
Music: Jem Finer
Principal Cast: Xavier Tchili, Clay Barnard, Catherine Tchili,
Sarah Lloyd, Antonia Beamish, Alan Moore
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Salon Pictures US, UK, Sri Lanka coproduction Dogwoof (World sales excluding
Unit 5B Rudolf Place North America)
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London London
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16 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
McQueen A Mother Brings Her Son
to be Shot
Synopsis Synopsis
“My shows are about Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll. It’s for the One night Majella O’Donnell took her teenage son Philly
excitement and the goosebumps. I want heart attacks. I want to be shot in both legs. Majella, Philly and his shooters all
ambulances.” (Alexander McQueen) live within an extraordinary community in Derry, Northern
‘Lee’ Alexander McQueen’s rags-to-riches story is a modern- Ireland. The “Troubles” officially ended in 1998 but they are
day fairy tale laced with the gothic. An unremarkable still at war. They do not accept the government or police.
working-class boy from East London, he harnessed his All this happens within the jurisdiction of the United
demons and went on to become a global one man fashion Kingdom. How do you bring your son to be shot? What
brand and one of the most iconic artists of the century. happens afterwards? How does family life continue? How
How did this punk rebel overturn the silver-spoon world of does a community respond? When do wars really end? For
Paris haute couture, ushering in the heady, revolutionary five years Sinéad O’Shea has filmed this shocking but darkly
era of ‘Cool Britannia’? And why, at the height of acclaim humorous portrait of a post conflict society.
and power, did he shockingly put an end to it all? Mirroring Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - World
the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, premiere
this film is an intimate revelation of McQueen’s own world,
both tortured and inspired, which celebrates a radical and Details
mesmerising genius of profound influence. Year: 2017
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Spotlight Running Time: 84 mins
Documentary - World premiere Director: Sinéad O’Shea
Producer: Ailish Bracken, Sinead O’Shea, Figs Jackman
Details Executive Producer: Joshua Oppenheimer, André Singer,
Year: 2018 Katie Holly, Edward Dallal, Kieron J. Walsh, Eddie Doyle,
Running Time: 111 mins Lesley McKimm, Niamh O’Connor
Director: Ian Bonhôte Editor: Enda O’Dowd
Producer: Andee Ryder, Nick Taussig, Paul Van Carter Screenwriter: Sinéad O’Shea
Executive Producer: Patrick Fisher, David Gilbery, Director of Photography: Richard Kendrick, Ross McDonnell,
Hugo Grumbar, Tim Haslam, Christopher Reynolds Enda O’Dowd, Sinéad O’Shea, Paddy Stevenson
Editor: Cinzia Baldessari Sound: Killian Fitzgerald Re-recording Mixer, Sound Editor
Screenwriter: Peter Ettedgui and Dubbing Mixer, Sound Editor: Killian Fitzgerald
Director of Photography: Will Pugh Music: George Brennan
Music: Michael Nyman Film image: © Blinder Films and SOS Productions Limited
Associate Producer: Annabel Wigoder
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Salon Pictures, Misfits Embankment Films Ireland, UK coproduction Cat & Docs
Entertainment production in Westbourne Studios, Unit 020 Catherine Le Clef
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(UK) production
London 75004 Paris
Salon Pictures
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Miles Street
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Ailish Bracken
Misfits Entertainments
Blinder Films
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FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 171ST 1ST
Nae Pasaran New Town Utopia
Synopsis Synopsis
Charting the incredible true story of the Scots who managed A documentary about grand utopian dreams and stark
to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from the other side of concrete realities. The challenging, funny and sometimes
the world, in the longest single act of solidarity against tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex.
Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. In 1974 a group of workers An audiovisual journey through populated ruins, guided by
at the Rolls Royce factory in East Kilbride showed their the artists, musicians and poets of Basildon. Facing austerity,
support for the people of Chile by refusing to carry out adversity and personal battles these people are driven by
the vital repairs of engines for Hawker Hunter planes, their creative spirit to help their community through art,
which had been used during the brutal military coup in poetry, music… and some rather angry puppets.
September 1973. The boycott endured for four years but
the Scottish workers never knew what impact they had; it Details
was a matter of conscience and an act of solidarity. Bustos Year: 2018
Sierra – himself the Scotland-based son of a Chilean exile – Running Time: 80 mins
reunites inspirational figures Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville, Director: Christopher Ian Smith
Stuart Barrie and John Keenan to hear their story. With Producer: Christopher Ian Smith
unprecedented access, Nae Pasaran also ventures much Executive Producer: Margaret Matheson
further to detail the horrors of the Pinochet years, meets Editor: Neil Lenthall
survivors of the period and hears the Chilean side of the Director of Photography: Christopher Ian Smith
story. Music: Greg Haines
Voice Cast: Jim Broadbent as the voice of Lewis Silkin MP
Details
Film Image: © Christopher Ian Smith / New Town Utopia
Year: 2018
Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Producer: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Editor: Colin Monie
Screenwriter: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Director of Photography: Peter Keith
Sound: Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer; William Aikman;
Sound Recordist: Jack Coghill, Francisco Escobar
Music: Patrick Neil Doyle
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
UK, Chile coproduction Festival Bookings Cult Modern
SDI Christopher Ian Smith
Debasers Filums (UK),
Eve Korzec 33A Keston Road
La Ventana Cine (CL)
74 Lauriston Place London
Debasers Filums Edinburgh SE15 4JA
Felipe Bustos Sierra EH3 9DF +44 (0)7980 308743
+44 (0)77549 968 34 +44 (0)131 6515874 chris@cultmodern.studio
info@debasers.co.uk eve@scotdoc.com chris@citizensmith.net
www.debasers.co.uk www.scottishdocinstitute.com www.cultmodern.studio
18 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIESNo Greater Law No Stone Unturned
Synopsis Synopsis
In Idaho’s rugged Treasure Valley, the Followers of Christ Alex Gibney reopens the mysterious unsolved case revolving
believe in God, family, and faith healing. As an investigation the 1994 Loughinisland massacre. On 18 June, in the small
into the community’s high infant mortality rate closes in on village of Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, six men were
the church, one patriarch fights for his right to his faith. brutally murdered and a few others were wounded in a pub
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Documentary while watching the World Cup soccer match. Despite a long
Competition - World premiere investigation by the police and many confusing leads, no
perpetrators of the attack were ever found.
Details Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 -
Year: 2018 International premiere
Running Time: 89 mins
Director: Tom Dumican Details
Producer: Jesse Lichtenstein Year: 2017
Executive Producer: Thomas Benski, Emma Cooper, Running Time: 111 mins
Elaine Frontain Bryant, Rob Sharenow, Molly Thompson Director: Alex Gibney
Editor: Mags Arnold, Colin Monie Producer: Trevor Birney, Alex Gibney
Screenwriter: Tom Dumican, Jesse Lichtenstein Co-Producer: Eimhear O’Neill
Director of Photography: Arthur Mulhern Executive Producer: Maiken Baird, Brendan J. Byrne,
Sound: Jesse Nordhausen, Creed Spencer Jonathan Ford, Richard Perello, Greg Phillips
Music: Stuart Miller Editor: Andy Grieve; Co-Editor: Alexis Johnson
Screenwriter: Alex Gibney
Director of Photography: Stan Harlow, Ross McDonnell
Sound: Sound Mixer: Peter Miller
Music: Composer: Ivor Guest; Music By: Robert Logan
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Salon Pictures, Misfits UK, A&E Indiefilms UK, US coproduction Kew Media
US coproduction Sara Hinzman 19 Heddon Street
Fine Point Films (UK), Jigsaw
235 E. 45th Street, Floor 11 London
Pulse Films Productions (US)
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info@pulsefilms.co.uk
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Northern Ireland
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FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 19Of Fish and Foe Phantom Cowboys
Synopsis Synopsis
Brothers Kevin and John Pullar are desperate to hold onto In three small American towns, young men’s adolescent
the family tradition of net fishing from the coast for wild dreams intersect with the realities of their adulthood.
Atlantic salmon. They face enemies at every turn but are Spanning nearly a decade, this searing documentary is a
determined to fight on, no matter what the cost. A film meditation on youth, tradition, and the evolving hopes and
about the uneasy relationship between traditional ways and dreams of modern adolescents in the forgotten industrial
modern day environmentalism. towns across America.
Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Documentary
Competition - World premiere
Details
Year: 2018 Details
Running Time: 92 mins Year: 2018
Director: Heike Bachelier, Andy Heathcote Running Time: 93 mins
Producer: Heike Bachelier, Andy Heathcote Director: Daniel Patrick Carbone
Executive Producer: Ewan Angus, Mark Thomas Producer: Daniel Patrick Carbone, Ryan Scafuro,
Editor: Heike Bachelier Annie Waldman
Director of Photography: Andy Heathcote Editor: Thomas Niles
Music: Stephen Daltry Director of Photography: Daniel Patrick Carbone,
With contributions from: John Pullar, Kevin Pullar Ryan Scafuro
FIlm Image: © Trufflepig Films
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Trufflepig Films Limited US, UK coproduction The Film Sales Company
Cairndhu Lucas Verga
A Flies Collective (US), Ryan
65 High Street 165 Madison Avenue, Suite 601
Scafuro (UK) production with
Newburgh New York
support of Cinereach (US)
Fife NY 10016
KY14 6AH Ryan Scafuro USA
+44 (0)1337 258125 27 Elm Grove +1 212 481 5020
www.trufflepigfilms.com London lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com
SE15 5DB contact@filmsalescorp.com
ryan.scafuro@gmail.com www.filmsalescorp.com
20 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIESThe School in the Cloud The Serengeti Rules
Synopsis Synopsis
The story of TED Prize-winner Sugata Mitra’s attempt to Beginning in the 1960s, a small band of young scientists
pioneer a new form of education, seen through the eyes of headed out into the wilderness, driven by an insatiable
children in an Indian village and in a northern British town, curiosity about how nature works. Immersed in some of the
whose lives are being transformed by his ideas. The film most remote and spectacular places on Earth – from the
poses the question “What kind of education do children majestic Serengeti to the Amazon jungle; from the Arctic
need in the networked world?” Ocean to Pacific tide pools – they discovered a single set of
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - World premiere rules that govern all life. Now in the twilight of their eminent
careers, these five unsung heroes of modern ecology share
Details the stories of their adventures, reveal how their pioneering
Year: 2018 work flipped our view of nature on its head, and give us a
Running Time: 85 mins chance to reimagine the world as it could and should be.
Director: Jerry Rothwell; Co-Director: Ranu Ghosh Producer: Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - Spotlight
Al Morrow, Dan Demissie Documentary - World premeire
Executive Producer: Ted Dintersmith, Lynda Weinman,
Stewart le Marechal, Jonny Persey; Executive Producers Details
for Sundance Institute: Tabitha Jackson, Richard Ray Perez Year: 2018
Editor: James Scott Running Time: 84 mins
Director of Photography: Jerry Rothwell, Ranu Ghosh Director: Nicolas Brown
Sound: Vincent Watts Producer: David Allen; Story
Music: Vincent Watts Producer: Catherine Watling; Natural History Producer:
Film Title: AKA The Edge Of Chaos Joe Loncraine
Executive Producer: David Guy Elisco, John Battsek,
Dennis WC Liu, Andrew Ruhemann
Editor: Andy R. Worboys
Screenwriter: Nicolas Brown
Director of Photography: Tim Cragg
Music: Anne Nikitin
With contributions from: Sean B. Carroll, Tony Sinclair,
Mary Power, John Terborgh, Jim Estes
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Met Film Production with Met Film Sales Ltd An HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Submarine Entertainment
support of Sundance Institute Vesna Cudic (US), Passion Planet (UK) 197 Grand Street, Suite 6W
Documentary Film Program, Ealing Studios production with support of New York
TED Prize Filmmaker Award Ealing Green Simons Science Sandbox NY 10013
London USA
Met Film Production Ltd Passion Planet
W5 5EP +1 212 625 1410
Al Morrow c/o Passion Pictures
+44 (0)20 8280 9124 info@submarine.com
Ealing Studios County House
vesna@metfilm.co.uk www.submarine.com
Ealing Green 33-34 Rathbone Place
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FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 211ST
Songwriter Studio 54
Synopsis Synopsis
A personal portrait of British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that
documented by Sheeran’s cousin Murray Cummings. not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize
Following this modest performer’s creative processes, from an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell,
an early-morning jam in the garden to a finished song, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere
from the first chord to the honed lyrics. Whether observing to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society.
Sheeran’s collaboration with producer Benny Blanco, the Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the
tension during a recording session at the legendary Abbey club’s hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the
Road Studios, or paying a visit to Sheeran’s first musical real story behind the greatest club of all time.
mentor at his old high school, Cummings gives voice to the
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - Doc
people who know Sheeran the best. Drawing on photos
Premieres - World premiere
and family, Cummings makes use of his own memories and
the various stages of Sheeran’s development to create a
Details
portrait of a man obsessed by music. The film eschews the
Year: 2018
celebrity hype to concentrate on the intensive work on the
Running Time: 98 mins
current album in California’s creative quarter, providing us
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
with intimate insights into the workings of this musician as
Producer: Matt Tyrnauer, John Battsek, Corey Reeser
he navigates between his own artistic aspirations and the
Co-Producer: Noreen O’Toole, Troy Benjamin, Graham High
demands of the music industry.
Executive Producer: Molly Thompson, Robert Sharenow,
Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Berlinale Special Gala - Elaine Frontain Bryant, Andrew Ruhemann
World premiere Editor: Andrea Lewis, with Morgan Hanner, Jason Hardwick
Screenwriter: Nicolas Brown
Details Director of Photography: Tom Hurwitz
Year: 2018 Music: Lorne Balfe; Music Supervisor: Liz Gallacher
Running Time: 84 mins
Director: Murray Cummings
Producer: Kimmie Kim, Murray Cummings
Executive Producer: Stuart Camp, Stefan Demetriou
Editor: Ben Wainwright-Pearce, Murray Cummings,
Alejandro Reyes-Knight
Screenwriter: Murray Cummings
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Murray Pictures Limited 30WEST US, UK coproduction
Murray Cummings Tristen Tuckfield, Micah Green
An Altimeter Films (US), Passion
info@songwriterfilm.com 2nd Floor
Pictures (UK) production
1663 18th Street
Santa Monica Passion Pictures
CA 90404 County House
USA 33-34 Rathbone Place
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22 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST 1ST
Time Trial Unsettling
Synopsis Synopsis
Focusing on the final races of cyclist David Millar’s career, Tekoa is a trendy hipster colony for Israeli settlers on the
leading up to his last encounter with the Tour de France. West Bank, where none of the controversial residents want
The camera goes inside the peloton, is pushed up impossible to speak to the media. From the moment filmmaker Iris Zaki
climbs and forced down rapid descents, lies alongside David arrives, tension fills the air. She sets up a small pop-up film
in his hotel room in post-race agony. The camera also rides in studio in the middle of the small town, and stays put for
the support car, the source of comfort, supplies and fleeting over one month in order to meet the young settlers face to
relief from the cold. And all in the knowledge that every mile face. A simple intervention, which creates a complex chain
travelled is a mile closer to the end. This film reveals how of reactions from those who eventually agree to talk to her.
the human spirit is driven by a force deeper than success From a woman who in the middle of an interview admits to
and glory. being a fascist, to another who has survived a knife attack
Official Selection IDFA 2017 - World premiere by a young Palestinian – and has forgiven him. ‘Unsettling’
is made by Iris Zaki alone as a social experiment that
Details highlights the contrasts and contradictions of the settlers’
Year: 2017 self-perception, but which does so in something as rare as
Running Time: 81 mins an active conversation with them. A conceptual ploy that
Director: Finlay Pretsell Producer: Sonja Henrici places Zaki’s film in the field between artistic practice and
Executive Producer: Iain Smith, Ian Davies, Noe Mendelle political activism, and which reaches beyond blind criticism.
Editor: Kieran Gosney, Dino Jonsater (CPH:DOX brochure)
Director of Photography: Martin Radich Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - World premiere
Sound: CJ Mirra Music: Dan Deacon
With contributions from: David Millar, Thomas Dekker Details
Film Image: © Nadav Kander Year: 2018
Running Time: 70 mins
Director: Iris Zaki
Producer: Iris Zaki Editor: Oren Yaniv
Screenwriter: Iris Zaki, Oren Yaniv
Director of Photography: Or Azulay Production
Note: This film was produced as an element of Iris Zaki’s PhD
programme at Royal Holloway, University of London
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Cycling Films Ltd c/o Autlook Filmsales UK, Israel coproduction
Finlay Pretsell Spittelberggasse Iris Zaki
SDI Productions 3/14 1070 Vienna +44 (0)7507 605505
Scottish Documentary Institute Austria irismtv@gmail.com
ECA +43 7203 46934 www.facebook.com/iriszaki
74 Lauriston Place welcome@autlookfilms.com
Edinburgh www.autlookfilms.com
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+44 (0)131 6515871
finlay@scottishdocinstitute.com
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FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 231ST
Westwood: Punk, Icon,
Activist
Synopsis
Dame Vivienne Westwood: punk, icon, provocateur and one
of the most influential originators in recent history. This is
the first film to encompass the remarkable story of her life,
her fashion, her activism and her cultural importance, as she
fights to maintain her brand‘s integrity, her principles
– and her legacy.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - World
Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 80 mins
Director: Lorna Tucker
Producer: Eleanor Emptage, Nicole Stott, Shirine Best,
John Battsek
Executive Producer: Anna Godas, Leo Haidar
Editor: Paul Carlin
Director of Photography: James Moriarty, Sam Brown
Music: Dan Jones; Music Supervisor: Gary Welch
Production Company Sales Agent
Finished Films Dogwoof
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www.wearefinished.com London
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County House info@dogwoof.com
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W1T 1JN
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24 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIESGranny Project, Director: Bálint Révész FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 25
26 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
SHORT
DOCUMENTARIES
A Woman Like Me, Director: Isabel Morales BondyBetty – They Say I’m Different Black Sheep
Synopsis Synopsis
Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female Everything changed for Cornelius Walker on the 27th
artists in America. She “was the first…” as former husband November 2000 when Damilola Taylor was killed in what
Miles Davis said. “Madonna before Madonna, Prince before became one of the UK’s most high-profile murder cases.
Prince”. An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Damilola was eleven – the same age as Cornelius. He lived
Betty arrived on the ‘70s scene to break boundaries for five minutes away. He had the same colour skin. Cornelius’
women with her daring personality, iconic fashion and mother, scared for her son’s safety, moved their family out of
outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and London. Cornelius suddenly found himself living on a white
Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and the estate run by a white gang. Racism ruled. And Cornelius
Commodores, and married Miles – startlingly turning him soon found himself the target of extreme verbal and physical
from jazz to funk on the album she named “Bitches Brew”. racial abuse. But rather than fight back, Cornelius decided
She then, despite being banned and boycotted, went on to become more like the people who hated him. He started
to become the first black woman to perform, write and to wear the same clothes they wore. He changed his accent.
manage herself. Betty was a feminist pioneer, inspiring He straightened his hair and wore bright blue contact lenses.
and intimidating in a manner like no woman before. Then He even started to bleach his skin Cornelius tried to become
suddenly - she just vanished. Betty Mabry Davis is a global white. The white gang became his family and kept him safe.
icon whose mysterious life story has until now, never been And in return, Cornelius became submerged in a culture of
told. Creatively blending documentary, animation and violence and hatred. But as the violence and racism against
nonfiction techniques, this movie traces the path of Betty’s other blacks continued, Cornelius struggled to marry his real
life, after years of trying, the elusive Betty, forever the free- identity with the one he had acquired. Filmed with non-
spirited Black Power Goddess, finally allowed the filmmakers actors in the same locations where the real events took place
to creatively tell her story based on their conversations. 15 years ago, ‘Black Sheep’ blurs the boundaries between
Official Selection IDFA 2017 - World premiere documentary and fiction to pose difficult, but highly topical,
questions about race and identity. Who decides what makes
Details us who we are? And what compromises are we prepared to
Year: 2017 make in order to fit in?
Running Time: 56 mins Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere
Director: Phil Cox
Producer: Giovanna Stopponi, Laurent Mini, Damon Smith Details
Executive Producer: Catherine Bailey, Karim Samai Year: 2018
Editor: Esteban Uyarra Running Time: 26 mins 40 secs
Director of Photography: Phil Cox Director: Ed Perkins
Animations: Kash Producer: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn
Co-Producer: Vanessa Tovell
Executive Producer: Charlie Phillips, Lindsay Poulton
Editor: Ed Perkins
Director of Photography: Michael Paleodimos
Production Designer: Guy Thompson
Music: Tom Barnes
Production Company Sales Agent Principal Cast: Kai Francis-Lewis
UK, France coproduction Monoduo Films, International
Sales & Distribution
A Native Voice Films Ltd (UK),
Ben Bassauer
La Compagnie des Taxi Brousse
Wildenbruchplatz 5
(FR) film, co-produced with Arte Production Company Sales Agent
12045 Berlin Germany
France (FR) Lightbox The Guardian
+49 178 187 6787
10 Amwell Street Charlie Phillips
Native Voice Films Ltd ben@monoduo.net
London charlie.phillips@theguardian.com
Phil Cox www.monoduofilms.com
EC1R 1UQ
37 Southborough Road
+44 (0)20 3750 0922
London
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E9 7EF
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