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UK DOCUMENTARIES 2019
2 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 6
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES 28
COMING SOON – FORTHCOMING
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 42
PROGRAMMERS’ PERSPECTIVES 48
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 51
BRITISH COUNCIL AND SHORTS 52
Cover: Taking The Waters, Directors: Kathryn Ferguson, Anna Hart
BRITISH COUNCIL AND FESTIVALS 54
BRITISH COUNCIL GLOBAL PROJECTS 56
INDEX OF FILMS 62
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.
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the 2019 UK Documentaries We work with the Scottish Documentary
Catalogue presented by British Council. Institute on Stories, a major programme of
creative documentary workshops helping
We’re proud to be championing new and international filmmakers in challenging
upcoming UK films and filmmakers to areas to give authentic voices to their work.
programmers and audiences around the The resulting short docs have screened at
world. This catalogue includes selected UK many major festivals. Read more about it at
feature-length and short documentaries that scottishdocinstitute.com/opportunities/
have been released in 2018 and 2019, as well stories
as flagging up some feature productions
due for release later this year. We are partnering One World Media on the
Global Short Docs Forum, an initiative to
We work with a number of partners to support nurture new talent in documentary shorts,
and promote excellence in documentary giving them access to the growing number of
through a range of activities spanning both digital media platforms. Our second edition
exhibition and skills development. took place in Ukraine hosted by Docudays UA
Film Festival in March 2019. You can find out
We have a long-term partnership with The more about it at globalshortdocs.com
Grierson Trust, an organisation that exists to
promote documentary filmmaking and holds In addition to the print version this catalogue
the annual Grierson Awards, which enables is also available in PDF format and can be
us to screen a wide range of outstanding UK downloaded at film.britishcouncil.org/british-
documentaries internationally. Read about films-directory/uk-film-catalogues
them at griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/
the-grierson-awards You can view the entire British Films
Directory listing both short and feature
We bring international delegates to attend length films, as well as further directories
Sheffield Doc/Fest, a world-leading annual listing filmmakers and festivals, at
festival celebrating the art and business britishcouncil.org/film
of documentary and all non-fiction
storytelling. You can find more information at You can contact us at
sheffdocfest.com/view/aboutdocfest films@britishcouncil.org
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I Told My Mum I was going on an R.E. Trip…, Director: Lindy Heymann
© Gary Moyes
5
FEATURE-LENGTH
DOCUMENTARIES
Director: Seamus Murphy
A Dog Called Money,
6 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
6
Amá Aquarela
Synopsis Synopsis
Amá is the Navajo word for Mother. This powerful Aquarela takes audiences on a deeply cinematic
and shocking documentary from Lorna Tucker journey through the transformative beauty and raw
exposes the forced sterilisation of thousands of power of water. Filmed at a rare 96 frames-per-
Native American women by the USA Government. second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans
Made alongside a group of incredible Native are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of
producers, consultants and the survivors themselves, Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious
Tucker travels across some of the loneliest parts frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the
of the USA meeting the brave survivors, doctors, throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angels
politicians and whistle-blowers who have brought Falls, water is Aquarela’s main character, with director
to light this horrifying scandal. Uncovering the Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities
grotesque abuses of power in modern American in startling visual detail.
history. The film’s release has encouraged women Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2018 - Out of
to come forward to share their stories of being Competition - World premiere
subjected to the violence of forced sterilisation
suggesting that this abuse continues to persist in Details
the USA and around the world, posing the question: Year: 2018
when will this suffering end? Running Time: 89 mins
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Details Producer: Aimara Reques, Heino Deckert,
Year: 2018 Sigrid Dyekjær
Running Time: 73 mins Co-Producer: Joslyn Barnes, Emile Hertling
Director: Lorna Tucker Peronard, Susan Rockefeller, Danny Glover
Producer: Colin Firth, Ged Doherty, Lorna Tucker, Executive Producer: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann,
Nuala O’Leary Mark Thomas, Isabel Davis, Sawsan Asfari,
Co-Producer: Andrea Vecchiato Maya Sanbar, Madge Bray, Matthias Ehrenberg,
Executive Producer: Charon Asetoyer, Ian Astbury, Frank Lehmann
Claudia Bluemhuber, Livia Firth, Gordon Roddick, Editor: Victor Kossakovsky, Molly Malene Stensgaard,
Peter Tyson Ainara Vera
Editor: Claire Ferguson, Sergio Mosteiro Screenwriter: Victor Kossakovsky, Aimara Reques
Screenwriter: Lorna Tucker Director of Photography: Victor Kossakovsky,
Director of Photography: Andrea Vecchiato Ben Bernhard
Music: Peter Hellicar, Jarrod Royles-Atkins Sound: Alexander Dudarev
Music: Eicca Toppinen
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company +44 (0)141 2584802
Raindog Films Dartmouth Films UK, Germany, Denmark, US info@aconiteproductions.com
Ged Doherty Matt Hird co-production www.aconiteproductions.com
18 Broadwick Street Somerset House An Aconite Productions Sales Agent
London Strand (UK), ma.ja.de. (DE), Lionsgate
W1F 8HS London Danish Documentary (DK) 2700 Colorado Avenue
+44 (0)7899 665555 WC2R 1LA production, in co-production Santa Monica
ged@raindogfilms.com +44 (0)20 7845 5857 with Louverture Films (US) CA 90404 USA
matt@dartmouthfilms.com +1 310 255 3700
www.dartmouthfilms.com Aconite Productions
Aimara Reques internationalsales@
Burgh Business Centre lionsgate.com
Office 3, 75 King Street www.lionsgate.com
Glasgow
G73 1JS
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 7
Becoming Animal Being Frank:
The Chris Sievey Story
Synopsis Synopsis
Examining the relationship between ourselves and The official documentary about maverick
the other species we share the planet with has Manchester comedian Frank Sidebottom, and the
opened up new ways to understand our place in life and art of his hidden creator Chris Sievey. Frank
the world. This film offers an attempt to give some Sidebottom, remembered fondly as the man with
of these new ways of thinking a cinematic form. the papier-mâché head, was the court jester of the
An essay based on a field trip to Wyoming’s wild Manchester music and comedy scene for over 25
nature, in the company of the bio-philosopher David years, but only a privileged few knew the man inside.
Abram and the two visionary filmmakers Emma Being Frank tells a twisted tale of split personalities
Davie and Peter Mettler. And with an abundance – a suburban superhero with a fanatical desire
of bison, moose and birds. Both form and thought to preserve the myth he created, and eventually
are unchained in a film that ends up moving (far) having to battle against being consumed by his alter
beyond man’s self-centred view of nature, and ego. Drawing on unique archive footage of Chris
into a state of almost psychedelic receptiveness. and Frank, sourced from Sievey’s own extensive
As Mettler asks in a diaristic note: Are language archive of Super 8 film, VHS tapes and DVDs, a
and modern technology a barrier or an open door heartbreaking and hilarious look at what it takes to
between ourselves and the world that surrounds us? be a true artist.
And what about the medium of film itself? Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2018 - World
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - World premiere premiere
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 78 mins Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Emma Davie, Peter Mettler Director: Steve Sullivan
Producer: Cornelia Seitler, Rebecca Day, Producer: Steve Sullivan
Sonja Henrici, Brigitte Hofer Executive Producer: Alex Usborne, Adam Partridge,
Editor: Peter Mettler Thomas R Atherton
Director of Photography: Peter Mettler Editor: Steve Sullivan
Screenwriter: Steve Sullivan
Director of Photography: Ezra Byrne
Production Designer: Dave Arnold
Sound: Sound Designer: Dai Shell; Sound Recordist:
Production Company Sales Agent Dom Corbisiero
Switzerland, UK maximage Production Company
co-production Neugasse 6 Switzerland, UK co-production
8005 Music: Chris Sievey, Frank Sidebottom
maximage Filmproduktion
(CH), SDI Productions (UK) Zurich Principal Cast: With contributions from: John Cooper
SDI Productions Switzerland Clarke, Johnny Vegas, Mark Radcliffe, Ross Noble,
+41 44 274 8866 John Thompson, Mike Joyce, Jon Ronson
SDI (Scottish Documentary info@maximage.ch
Institute) www.maximage.ch Production Company steve@beingfrankmovie.com
Sonja Henrici A Piece of Cardboard Sales Agent
ECA SDI
Eve Korzec Productions Ltd in Steve Sullivan
74 Lauriston Place association with Ffilm steve@beingfrankmovie.com
Edinburgh 74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh Cymru Wales, 104 Films, Fat
EH3 9DF Controller Management Ltd.
+44 (0)131 6515874 EH3 9DF
sonja@scottishdocinstitute.com +44 (0)131 6515874 Piece of Cardboard
www.scottishdocinstitute.com eve@scotdoc.com Productions Ltd
www.scottishdocinstitute.com Steve Sullivan
8 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
1ST
Bojayá: Caught in the Crossfire A Deal with the Universe
Synopsis Synopsis
In 2002 in Bojayá, Colombia 79 people died when Jason Barker’s debut feature documentary A Deal
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia with the Universe is a very personal chronicle of
(FARC) launched a homemade mortar onto a church becoming a parent. Drawing on the filmed diaries
where many were hiding from crossfire between made over the last ten years that document both
the left-wing FARC and right-wing paramilitaries. Jason’s transgender journey as well has his parental
Leyner Palacios survived, but 28 of his family journey. This film is groundbreaking in terms of
members did not. The Bojayá massacre was one it’s intimate insights into gender identity and new
of the worst atrocities in Colombia’s 50 year-long parenthood.
conflict. When peace between the government
and the FARC was signed in 2016, after decades Details
of conflict, Leyner made it his mission to ensure Year: 2018
the peace deal was implemented to his people’s Running Time: 90 mins
benefit, receiving a Nobel Peace Prize in the process. Director: Jason Barker
Capturing one victim’s incredible struggle for justice, Producer: Loran Dunn
this film follows the process of identifying the dead Executive Producer: Natasha Dack Ojumu
of Bojayá during the faltering implementation of the Editor: Rachel Meyrick
controversial peace accords. Screenwriter: Jason Barker
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase - Director of Photography: Jason Barker
World premiere Music: Hutch Demouilpied
Consultant Editor: Chris Wyatt
Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Oisín Kearney
Producer: Trevor Birney, Brendan Byrne
Editor: Juangus Dinsmore
Cinematography: Oisín Kearney
Music: Rhodri Karim
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Ireland, UK co-production Kew Media Group Delaval Film Ltd c/o Delaval Film Ltd
A Fine Point Films (UK) 151 Shaftesbury Avenue Loran Dunn Loran Dunn
production with support of London 65-67 Lever Street 65-67 Lever Street
Screen Ireland (IE), Northern WC2H 8AL Manchester Manchester
Ireland Screen (UK), Kew +44 (0)20 7851 6500 M1 1FL M1 1FL
Media (UK) rebecca.berry@kewmedia.com loran@delavalfilm.com loran@delavalfilm.com
london@kewmedia.com www.delavalfilm.com www.delavalfilm.com
Fine Point Films www.kewmedia.com
2nd Floor
Callender House
58-60 Upper Arthur Street
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT1 4GJ
+44 (0)28 9031 5930
info@finepointfilms.com
contact@finepointfilms.com
www.finepointfilms.com
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 9
1ST 1ST
A Dog Called Money Doozy
Synopsis Synopsis
Award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy has Where does the character end and the actor begin?
made a film that investigates the creative process This debut feature from UK artist-filmmaker Richard
behind his project with PJ Harvey. While tracing the Squires, is a creative documentary that employs
sources of songs and detailing the journey of their ‘Clovis’, an animated antihero (voiced by ‘Kids in the
birth, he brings to life the people and places at their Hall’s’ Mark McKinney) as a means to explore the
very heart. particular “voice” casting of cartoon villains in the
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama late 1960s. Through the lens of one of Hollywood’s
Dokumente - World premiere hidden queer histories, this documentary offers a
contemplation on the psycho-social relationship
Details between villainy and hysterical male laughter; the
Year: 2019 use of voice as a signifier of ‘otherness’ and the
Running Time: 90 mins frequently uneasy symbiosis of character and actor.
Director: Seamus Murphy Official Selection International Film Festival
Producer: Isabel Davis, Katie Holly, James Wilson, Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future -
Seamus Murphy International premiere
Co-Producer: Evan Horan
Executive Producer: Thomas Benski, Marisa Clifford, Details
Tim O’Shea, Jim Reeve, Laura Macara, Celine Year: 2018
Haddad, Kieron J. Walsh, Brian Message, Sumit Running Time: 70 mins
Bothra, Sebastian Gollek Director: Richard Squires
Editor: Sebastian Gollek Producer: Richard Squires
Screenwriter: Seamus Murphy Co-Producer: Madeleine Molyneaux
Director of Photography: Seamus Murphy Editor: Richard Squires
Sound: Seamus Murphy; Sound Design: Screenwriter: Richard Squires
Brendan Rehill Director of Photography: Willy Busfield,
Music: Polly Jean Harvey Barbara Nicholls
Principal Cast: PJ Harvey Sound: Chu-Li Shewring
Music: Oliver Davis
Principal Cast: Mark McKinney, Michael Kearns,
Eric Geynes, John Airlie, Paul Wells, Sophie Scott
Associate Producer: Abigail Addison
Animator: Elroy Simmons
Colourist: Alex Grigoras
Production Company +44 (0)20 7426 5700
Ireland, UK co-production info@pulsefilms.co.uk
A Pulse Films (UK), Blinder www.pulsefilms.com
Films (IE), JW Films (UK) JW Films
production in association +44 (0)20 76121263 Production Company Sales Agent
with Fís Éireann/Screen LMFYFF Productions LMFYFF Productions
Sales Agent
Ireland (IE), Somerset lmfyff@lmfyffproductions.com lmfyff@lmfyffproductions.com
Autlook Films
House (UK), Artangel Salma Abdalla
(UK) with support of ATC Spittelberggasse 3/14
Management (UK), Great 1070 Vienna
Point Media (UK) Austria
Pulse Films +43 720 346934
17 Hanbury Street salma@autlookfilms.com
London www.autlookfilms.com
E1 6QR
10 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
The Elephant Queen The Eyes of Orson Welles
Synopsis Synopsis
A genre redefining film starring the ultimate leading Orson Welles trained as an artist before he become
lady, Athena, an elephant matriarch who will do an actor and director, and continued to draw and
everything in her power to protect her family when paint throughout his career – character sketches,
they are forced to leave their waterhole. Narrated storyboards, set designs, pictures of the people
by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this epic story of love, loss and and places that inspired him. These artworks are a
coming home is a timely love letter to a species that sketchbook of his life, and most have never been
could be gone from our planet in a generation. seen outside his family and close friends. For the
first time, award-winning director Mark Cousins
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival has been granted access to this treasure trove of
2018 - TIFF Docs - World premiere imagery, to make a film about what he finds there -
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 the story of Welles’ visual thinking, never before told.
An exclusive new perspective on one of the 20th
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 century’s greatest creative figures, whose art and
life continue to fascinate audiences today.
Details
Year: 2018 Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2018 - Cannes
Running Time: 96 mins Classics - World premiere
Director: Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble
Producer: Victoria Stone, Lucinda Englehart Details
Editor: David Dickie Year: 2018
Screenwriter: Mark Deeble Running Time: 110 mins
Director of Photography: Mark Deeble Director: Mark Cousins
Sound: Tim Owens, Ben Peace Producer: Mary Bell, Adam Dawtrey
Principal Cast: Narration: Chiwetel Ejiofor Executive Producer: Michael Moore, Mark Bell,
Film Image: © The Elephant Queen Mark Thomas
Editor: Timo Langer
Screenwriter: Mark Cousins
Director of Photography: Mark Cousins
Sound: Ali Murray
Music: Matt Regan
Film Image: © Walter Carone, Paris Match via Getty
Images
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
UK, Kenya coproduction Mister Smith Entertainment Bofa Productions Limited Dogwoof
Deeble & Stone 77 Dean Street Adam Dawtrey 19-23 Ironmonger Row
hello@deeblestone.com London 20 Westerton Drive London
www.deeblestone.com W1D 3SH Bridge of Allan EC1V 3QN
+44 (0)20 7494 1724 Stirlingshire +44 (0)20 7253 6244
info@mistersmithent.com FK9 4QL info@dogwoof.com
www.mistersmithent.com adam.dawtrey@btinternet.com www.dogwoof.com
Apple
movies@apple.com
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 111ST
Female Human Animal For Sama
Synopsis Synopsis
The Tate Gallery recently staged a retrospective A feature documentary telling the astonishing
of the surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), story of a 26-year old female Syrian filmmaker,
famously the lover of Max Ernst. Novelist Chloe Waad al-Kateab, who filmed her life in rebel-held
Aridjis, who knew the artist from her native Mexico, Aleppo through 5 years of the Syrian uprising.
was made guest curator of the exhibition. Set She fell in love, got married and had a daughter all
between the real-life curation of the Tate show and while filming the violence raging around her and in
something more fantasised, Female Human Animal particular documenting the challenges the conflict
sees Chloe increasingly disappointed by her milieu imposed on women and children. Along with a close
- and increasingly haunted by Carrington’s strange group of friends, she stayed in the city to fight for
artworks. When an elusive, brooding man seems her dream of a free Syria, a struggle that ended in
to offer more, Chloe begins to pursue him, but is their defeat and exile. The film weaves together her
she hunter, or hunted? Enabled by Carrington’s intimate, emotive footage with her struggle to come
own defiantly mysterious mythology, she descends to terms with the trauma of what she witnessed. It’s
into a world of obsession. Shot on a rare ‘80s video an outstanding story, by turns beautiful, shocking,
camera with a unique look, and deftly weaving fact surprising and uplifting. Waad is a symbol for our
and fiction, the film offers a darkly romantic fantasia times, the epitome of a bold, brave woman prepared
of a woman who goes beyond societal norms, to risk her life for what she believes, in a year when
putting on screen the lurid unconscious of our new women are finally becoming the heroes of their own
sexual politics. stories. Hers is an epic tale of the survival of love and
Official Selection BAFICI Buenos Aires International courage amid the cruelty of war.
Independent Film Festival 2018 - World premiere Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Documentary Feature
Competition - World premiere
Details Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - International
Year: 2018 Spectrum - International premiere
Running Time: 75 mins
Director: Josh Appignanesi Details
Producer: Josh Appignanesi, Sam Dobbyn Year: 2019
Executive Producer: Jacqui Davies Running Time: 95 mins
Editor: Martin Macdonald Director: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Screenwriter: Josh Appignanesi, devised with Producer: Waad al-Kateab
Chloe Aridjis Senior Producer: Dan Edge
Director of Photography: Tristan Chenais; Additional Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro, George
Cinematographers: Ben Barber, Richard Dunton, Waldrum, Siobhan Sinnerton, Ben de Pear,
Michael Hobdell Raney Aronson-Rath
Production Designer: Erik Rehl Editor: Chloe Lambourne, Simon McMahon
Sound: Thomas Blazukas, Morgan Muse, Sam Director of Photography: Waad al-Kateab
Boulton Music: Andy Cooke, Andy McCluskey Music: Nainita Desai
Principal Cast: Chloe Aridjis, Marc Hosemann,
Patrick O’Kane, Angus Wright Production Company
George Waldrum
ITN Productions
Production Company Minotaur Film Ltd
200 Grays Inn Rd
Funded by Arts Council 5 Kenyon Street
London
England London
WC1X 8XZ
Josh Appignanesi SW6 6JZ
+44 (0)7971 095 674
femalehumananimal@gmail.com +44 (0)7956 373597 george.waldrum@
www.joshappignanesi.com www.jacquidavies.com
itnproductions.com
@FemHumanAnimal @Jacqui Davies
www.itnproductions.co.uk
12 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
Freedom Fields The Ice King
Synopsis Synopsis
Filmed over five years, following three women and Watch any figure skating and it falls into two camps:
their football team in post-revolution Libya, as the before and after John Curry. From what was a
country descends into civil war and the utopian macho, technical sport whose judges punished
hopes of the Arab Spring begin to fade. Through the deviation, blossomed –through John Curry’s
eyes of these accidental activists, we see the reality stubborn beauty – ice-dancing. After winning
of a country in transition, where the personal stories gold at the Winter Olympics for a rebelliously
of love and aspirations collide with History. balletic routine, audiences and reviewers alike were
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival enthralled by his genius. But Curry’s story is about
2018 - TIFF Docs - World premiere more than skating. On the night of the final, Curry
became the first openly gay Olympian at a time
Details when homosexuality was barely legal. From bullying
Year: 2018 and prejudice, to relief in the gay underworld, to his
Running Time: 97 mins untimely death from AIDS, Curry’s story dovetails
Director: Naziha Arebi with the experiences of a generation. The story of
Producer: Flore Cosquer, Naziha Arebi a man whose body was a battleground; from love
Executive Producer: Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle affairs, to violence in sex clubs, to its ‘unmanly’
Editor: Ling Lee, Alice Powell, Maya Hawke elegance on the ice, every act was rebellion. John
Screenwriter: Naziha Arebi Curry was no activist, but an artist expressing his
Director of Photography: Naziha Arebi authentic self – yet in a world where his existence
Sound: Giovanni Buccomino was taboo, his life was unavoidably political.
Music: Katya Mihailova Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - International
premiere
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 89 mins
Director: James Erskine
Producer: Victoria Gregory
Co-Producer: Luc Tremoulet
Executive Producer: Alex Holmes, Anna Godas,
Emma Cahusac, Kirsty Bell, Oli Harbottle, Tony Miller
Editor: Steve Parkinson
Screenwriter: James Erskine
Production Company Sales Agent Director of Photography: Paul Williams
Libya, UK, Netherlands, US, Wide House
Sound: Jack Gillies
Qatar, Lebanon, Canada 9, Rue Bleue
Music: Stuart Hancock
co-production 75009 Paris
France
Assistant Producer: Siwan Clark
SDI Productions (UK), Line Producer: Rachel Doctors
HuNa Productions (LY) +33 1 53 95 24 41
infos@widehouse.org
SDI Productions Ltd www.widehouse.org
Flore Cosquer Production Company Sales Agent
ECA New Black Films Limited Dogwoof
74 Lauriston Place 5 Denmark Street 19-23 Ironmonger Row
Edinburgh London London
EH3 9DF WC2H 8LP EC1V 3QN
+44 (0)131 651 5874 +44 (0)20 7836 8660 +44 (0)20 7253 6244
flore@scotdoc.com info@newblackfilms.com info@dogwoof.com
www.scottishdocinstitute.com www.newblackfilms.com www.dogwoof.com
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 131ST 1ST
Irene’s Ghost Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Synopsis Synopsis
A son’s search to find out about the mother he Christmas Island, home to the famous red crabs – in
never knew, piecing together fragments of the past its beautiful yet threatening landscape we witness
to make sense of the present. past and present moments of chaotic human
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - migrations, that play out in stark contrast to its own
World premiere ancient rhythms. Through stories of the island’s first
human migrations and the natural phenomenon
Details of the annual crab migration, we come to arrive
Year: 2018 at a darker side of this seemingly idyllic paradise.
Running Time: 82 mins Hidden in the core of the jungle sits Australia’s
Director: Iain Cunningham; Animation Director: biggest offshore refugee detention centre. It was
Ellie Land built not-to-be-seen, yet in this film every encounter
Producer: Rebecca Mark-Lawson takes us closer, every direction leads us there. The
Co-Producer: Ciara Barry, Rosie Crerar crab migration comes to serve as an allegory for
Executive Producer: Katie Bailiff, Lizzie Francke, the natural movements of migration; ancient and
Paul Ashton, Lucy McDowell, Jennifer Armitage timeless. The natural spectacle sits in stark contrast
Editor: David Arthur; Additional Editor: Cinzia to the chaotic human movements and entrapment
Baldessari, Hugh Williams that are senseless and absurd.
Screenwriter: Iain Cunningham; Co-writer: Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 -
David Arthur Documentary Competition - World premiere
Director of Photography: Iain Cunningham;
Additional Camera: Lucy Cohen, Rosie Saunders, Details
Joshua Fry Year: 2018
Sound: Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer: Running Time: 93 mins
Raoul Brand Director: Gabrielle Brady
Music: Chris Tye; Music Consultant: Connie Farr Producer: Alexander Wadouh, Samm Haillay,
Animators: Paulina Brinck, Charlotte Walton, Alex Kelly, Gizem Acarla, Gabrielle Brady
Zoë Llewellyn, Jordan Booth, Rose Gibbin, Co-Producer: Julia Niethammer
Victor Tshimanga Executive Producer: Lizzie Franke, Sarah Perks
Editor: Katharina Fiedler
Screenwriter: Gabrielle Brady
Director of Photography: Michael Latham
Production Company Sound: Leo Dolgan
A Forward Features and Music: Aaron Cupples
Tyke Films Production in Principal Cast: Poh-Lin Lee
co-production with Barry
Crerar with support from Production Company Sales Agent
BFI Film Fund, Creative Australia, Germany, UK Autlook Filmsales
England, Creative Scotland, co-production Spittelberggasse 3/14
Maudsley Charity, Wellcome Third Films 1070 Vienna
Samm Haillay Austria
Forward Features
Kingsland Church Studios +43 7203 46934
12 Fleming Drive
Priory Green welcome@autlookfilms.com
Hitchin
Byker www.autlookfilms.com
Herts
SG5 4FF Newcastle Upon Tyne
+44 (0)7939 021157 NE6 2DW
hello@forwardslashfilms.com +44 (0)7866 559541
iain@forwardslashfilms.com sammhaillay@gmail.com
www.forwardslashfilms.com www.christmasislandfilm.com
14 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
Last Breath Leaving Neverland
Synopsis Synopsis
A commercial diver is stranded on the seabed with When allegations of sexual abuse by Michael
only five minutes of oxygen supply, but with no Jackson involving young boys surfaced in 1993,
chance of rescue for more than 30 minutes. With many found it hard to believe that the King of Pop
access to amazing archive, this is the true story of could be guilty of such unspeakable acts. In separate
one man’s impossible fight for survival. It is Gravity but parallel stories, James Safechuck (10) and Wade
meets Touching The Void – 100 metres underwater. Robson (7) were each befriended by Jackson,
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase - who invited them into his singular, fairy-tale world
International premiere as his career reached its peak. Their families were
unaware of the manipulation and abuse he would
Details subject the boys to over a period of years. Through
Year: 2019 gut-wrenching interviews with the now-adult
Running Time: 86 mins men and their families, Leaving Neverland crafts a
Director: Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa portrait of sustained exploitation, deception and the
Producer: Al Morrow, Angus Lamont, Stewart complicated feelings that led both men to confront
Le Marechal, Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa, their abuse only once they each had had a young
Dylan Williams son of their own. Playing out against the backdrop
Executive Producer: Jonny Persey, Vesna Cudic, of our collective experience, the film documents the
Leslie Finlay, Tony Nellany value of breaking a long-held silence, even when it
Editor: Sam Rogers implicates a powerful, revered figure.
Screenwriter: Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 -
Director of Photography: Alex Parkinson Special Events programme - World premiere
Production Designer: Moley Campbell
Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: Part One 2 x 120 mins;
Part Two 2x 90 mins
Director: Dan Reed Producer: Dan Reed
Executive Producer: Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller,
Tom Porter
Editor: Jules Cornell
Production Company Sales Agent Director of Photography: Dan Reed
Met Film Production Met Film Sales Music: Chad Hobson
Al Morrow Vesna Cudic
Ealing Studios Ealing Studios
Ealing Green Ealing Green
London London Production Company Sales Agent
W5 5EP W5 5EP US, UK co-production Kew Media Group
+44 (0)20 8280 9127 +44 (0)20 8280 9117 Amos Pictures 151 Shaftesbury Avenue
al@metfilm.co.uk vesna@metfilm.co.uk jojo@amospictures.co.uk London
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FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 15Maiden Marianne & Leonard:
Words of Love
Synopsis Synopsis
A moving portrait of resilience chronicling the A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen
unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. The film
Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to follows their relationship from the early days on the
enter the Whitbread Round the World Race. The idyllic Greek island of Hydra in 1960 a time of ‘free
Whitbread Round the World Race (rechristened love’ and open marriage, as part of a bohemian
the Volvo Ocean Race in 2001) was considered an community of foreign artists, writers, and musicians,
exclusively masculine endeavour when Edwards to how their love evolved when Leonard became a
came along and, in the face of much sexist successful musician.
condescension, proved that skill, perseverance, Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 -
and courage at sea know no gender. Documentary Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2018 - TIFF Docs - World premiere Details
Year: 2019
Details Running Time: 97 mins
Year: 2018 Director: Nick Broomfield
Running Time: 93 mins Producer: Nick Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin, Shani
Director: Alex Holmes Hinton, Kyle Gibbon
Producer: Victoria Gregory, Alex Holmes Executive Producer: Charles Finch, Patrick Holland,
Executive Producer: James Erskine, Oli Harbottle, Jan Christian Mollestad, Lisa Savage, Tony Palmer,
Anna Godas Rudi Dolezal
Editor: Katie Bryer Editor: Marc Hoeferlin
Screenwriter: Alex Holmes Director of Photography: Barney Broomfield
Director of Photography: Chris Openshaw Music: Nick Laird-Clowes
Music: Rob Manning, Samuel Sim Archival Producer: Lisa Savage
Principal Cast: Tracy Edwards
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
New Black Films Dogwoof US, UK co-production Kew Media Group
5 Denmark Street 19-23 Ironmonger Row 151 Shaftesbury Avenue
Second Floor London London
London EC1V 3QN WC2H 8AL
WC2H 8UP +44 (0)20 7253 6244 +44 (0)20 7851 6500
+44 (0) 207 836 8660 info@dogwoof.com rebecca.berry@kewmedia.com
info@newblackfilms.com www.dogwoof.com london@kewmedia.com
www.newblackfilms.com www.kewmedia.com
16 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. Midnight Traveler
Synopsis Synopsis
Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director
footage compiled over the last 22 years, this is Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife
an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan musician’s and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain
remarkable journey from immigrant teenager in journey, Fazili shows first hand the dangers facing
London to international popstar M.I.A., an artist who refugees seeking asylum and the love shared
continues to shatter conventions. between a family on the run.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 -
World Cinema Documentary Competition - World World Cinema Documentary Competition - World
premiere premiere
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase
Details
Year: 2018 Details
Running Time: 97 mins Year: 2019
Director: Steve Loveridge Running Time: 87 mins
Producer: Lori Cheatle, Andrew Goldman, Director: Hassan Fazili
Paul Mezey Producer: Emelie Mahdavian, Su Kim
Co-Producer: Josh Rappaport Co-Producer: Fatima Hussaini, Ahmad Imami
Executive Producer: Philipp Engelhorn, Editor: Emelie Mahdavian; Co-Editor: Kristina
Michael Raisler Motwani; Consulting Editor: Nels Bangerter
Editor: Marina Katz, Gabriel Rhodes Screenwriter: Emelie Mahdavian
Sound: Sound Design: Ron Bochar Sound: Supervising Sound Editor: Daniel Timmons
Music: Music Supervisor: Tracy McKnight Music: Gretchen Jude
Principal Cast: M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam) Principal Cast: Featuring: Nargis Fazili, Zahra Fazili,
Fatima Hussaini, Hassan Fazili
Cameras: Fatima Hussaini, Hassan Fazili, Nargis
Fazili, Zahra Fazili
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
US, UK, Sri Lanka Dogwoof (World sales US, UK, Qatar, Canada Doc & Film International
co-production excluding North America) co-production 13, Rue Portefoin
A Hard Working Movies 19-23 Ironmonger Row An Old Chilly Pictures LLC 75003 Paris
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production in association EC1V 3QN +33 1 42 77 56 87
+44 (0)20 7253 6244 Midnight Traveler sales@docandfilm.com
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FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 171ST
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Nae Pasaran
Synopsis Synopsis
A visionary, innovator, and originator who defied Charting the incredible true story of the Scots who
categorization and embodied the word cool: a managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from
foray into the life and career of musical and cultural the other side of the world, in the longest single act
icon Miles Davis. Using words from Miles Davis’s of solidarity against Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. In
autobiography, this film offers an incisive insight into 1974 a group of workers at the Rolls Royce factory
our understanding of the legendary musician. Newly in East Kilbride showed their support for the people
released archival material, alongside interviews of Chile by refusing to carry out the vital repairs of
with pre-eminent historians and personal friends engines for Hawker Hunter planes, which had been
like Quincy Jones, illustrate a man of intensity and used during the brutal military coup in September
devotion to his craft. Despite the indignities of 1973. The boycott endured for four years but the
America during the time of segregation, nothing Scottish workers never knew what impact they
was going to stop Davis from realizing his dream: had; it was a matter of conscience and an act of
to create a new form of musical expression. Davis solidarity. Bustos Sierra – himself the Scotland-
worked like a physicist with his collaborators to based son of a Chilean exile – reunites inspirational
push musical experimentation and widen the tones figures Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville, Stuart
and lyricism of jazz—the effects of which are felt Barrie and John Keenan to hear their story. With
to this day. Delving into his past loves, personal unprecedented access, Nae Pasaran also ventures
relationships, and addictions, a clearer portrait much further to detail the horrors of the Pinochet
of Davis the man emerges. Davis is fearless and years, meets survivors of the period and hears the
engaging throughout, and his intellectual fervor Chilean side of the story.
tempered only by his insecurities.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Details
Documentary Premieres Year: 2018
- World premiere Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Special Producer: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Presentations - International premiere Editor: Colin Monie
Screenwriter: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Details Director of Photography: Peter Keith
Year: 2019 Sound: Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer; William
Running Time: 115 mins Aikman; Sound Recordist: Jack Coghill, Francisco
Director: Stanley Nelson Escobar
Producer: Nicole London, Stanley Nelson Music: Patrick Neil Doyle
Executive Producer: Terry Shand, Geoff Kempin,
Michael Kantor
Editor: Lewis Erskine; Assistant Editor:
Yusuf Kapadia
Production Company Eagle House Production Company Sales Agent
US, UK co-production 22 Armoury Way UK, Chile co-production Festival Bookings SDI
London Debasers Filums (UK), Eve Korzec
Firelight Films, Inc. (US) 74 Lauriston Place
production with support of SW18 1EZ La Ventana Cine (CL)
Edinburgh
Eagle Rock Film Productions +44 (0)20 8870 5670 / Debasers Filums EH3 9DF
(UK) +44 (0)20 Felipe Bustos Sierra
8875 8791 (ext. 510) +44 (0)131 6515874
Eagle Rock Film Productions mail@eagle-rock.com +44 (0)77549 968 34 eve@scotdoc.com
c/o Eagle Rock info@debasers.co.uk www.scottishdocinstitute.com
www.eaglerockent.com www.debasers.co.uk
Entertainment
18 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
No Ifs or Buts Of Fish and Foe
Synopsis Synopsis
Filmed over a 22 year period, No Ifs or Buts delivers Brothers Kevin and John Pullar are desperate to
a portrait of Soho barbershop, Cuts, an iconic hold onto the family tradition of net fishing from the
London hub for street fashion and pop innovators. Scottish coast for wild Atlantic salmon. They face
Guided by freewheeling founders James Lebon and enemies at every turn but are determined to fight
Steve Brooks, who met when one was a rockabilly on, no matter what the cost. A film about the uneasy
and the other a New Romantic, the salon moved relationship between traditional ways and modern
from early ’80s postpunk roots to become a hip-hop day environmentalism.
club and communal hub for DJs, photographers Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere
and style icons. But the film “is not just about the
haircut”, delivering an intimate portrait of Steve Details
struggling with a traumatic past that threatens to Year: 2018
derail the Cuts universe. The film traces profound Running Time: 92 mins
and often tragic change in the hairdressers’ lives Director: Heike Bachelier, Andy Heathcote
within the wider context of the UK’s political and Producer: Heike Bachelier, Andy Heathcote
cultural landscape- an anthem to the promise of Executive Producer: Ewan Angus, Mark Thomas
youth and the friendships that endure over a lifetime. Editor: Heike Bachelier
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Director of Photography: Andy Heathcote
World premiere Music: Stephen Daltry
Principal Cast: John Pullar, Kevin Pullar
Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Sarah Lewis
Producer: Sarah Lewis, Nic Tuft
Co-Producer: Jenny Selden
Executive Producer: Giorgio di Mitri, Michael
Kopelman, Tyrone Lebon
Editor: Daniel Goddard, Sarah Lewis, Ken Sallows
Director of Photography: John Hoare, David
Williams, Sarah Lewis
Music: Daniel Goddard
Principal Cast: Steve Brooks, James Lebon,
Pete Dowland, A. Daniel, Roy Davies, Boy George,
Goldie, Neneh Cherry, Leigh Bowery
Additional Cinematography: Jenny Selden, Nic Tuft,
Anne Scott Wilson
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Felt Culture Ltd Trufflepig Films Limited Journeyman Pictures
Sarah Lewis Cairndhu +44 (0)20 8786 6057
sarahlewis@fastmail.fm 65 High Street films@journeyman.tv
Newburgh www.journeyman.tv
Fife
KY14 6AH
info@trufflepigfilms.co.uk
www.trufflepigfilms.com
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 19On The President’s Orders Our Godfather
Synopsis Synopsis
The searing story of President Duterte’s bloody Tommaso Buscetta was the first high-ranking
campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Italian Mafia boss ever to turn against Cosa Nostra.
Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate Buscetta not only broke the code of silence for the
access to both sides of the war – the Manila police, first time - he testified against the Mob, both in
and an ordinary family from the slum. Shot in the the USA and in Italy. “He was the key witness who
style of a thriller, this observational film combines broke the back of the Mob”, said Louis Freeh (future
the look and feel of a narrative feature film with FBI Director) at the time. Buscetta helped convict
a real life revelatory journalistic investigation into more than 400 Mafiosi. He became the Mob’s most
a campaign of killings. The film uncovers a murky wanted man in the world – and 11 close relatives,
world where crime, drugs and politics meet in a including two sons, were killed. A story told for the
deathly embrace – and reveal that although the first time with exclusive access to Buscetta’s family,
police have been publicly ordered to stop extra- who remain in America and are only now breaking
judicial killings, the deaths continue. their silence after more than 30 years in hiding.
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2019 - F:ACT Award - Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Special
World premiere Presentation - World premiere
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – World Showcase
Details
Details Year: 2019
Year: 2019 Running Time: 93 mins
Running Time: 71 mins Director: Andrew Meier, Mark Franchetti
Director: James Jones, Olivier Sarbil Producer: Andrew Meier, Mark Franchetti
Producer: James Jones, Dan Edge, Screenwriter: Andrew Meier, Mark Franchetti
Raney Aronson-Rath Principal Cast: Featuring: Tommaso Buscetta,
Editor: Michael Harte Cristina Buscetta, Roberto Buscetta, Lisa Buscetta,
Director of Photography: Olivier Sarbil Giovanni Busetta, Roberto Precioso, Giovanni Ayala,
Music: Uno Helmersson Anthony Petrucci, John Huber, Alfredo Principe
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Frontline PBS (US) and PBS Distribution US, UK, Russia co-production Kew Media Group
ARTE (FR) production in 2100 Crystal Drive, N401 A Black Earth Films and 151 Shaftesbury Avenue
association with Mongoose 22202 Arlington Phenomen Trust production London
Pictures (UK), BBC Storyville USA WC2H 8AL
(UK) and the DocSociety +1 703 739 5226 +44 (0)20 7851 6500
(UK) theatrical@pbs.org rebecca.berry@kewmedia.com
Mongoose Pictures www.pbsbdistribution.org london@kewmedia.com
Belinda Morrison www.kewmedia.com
Willow Tree House
Silver Street North
Chacombe
Oxon
OX17 2JS
belinda@mongoosepictures.co.uk
www.mongoosepictures.co.uk
20 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIESThe Pickup Game Prophecy
Synopsis Synopsis
The ‘pickup’ industry, where self-styled seduction Intimate and revealing, this documentary offers an
coaches travel the world, charging a small fortune unprecedented insight into the mind of an artist
to teach men skills they claim will guarantee them as he works on creating a masterpiece. Beginning
success with women, can be a highly lucrative with a blank canvas, the film follows acclaimed
business, with many companies earning millions of artist Peter Howson on a journey that showcases
dollars each year. But, it is also an industry rife with his dark sense of humour as well as his immense
controversy and scandal; several ‘instructors’ have talent. Working from his imagination, former official
been deported from countries for their contentious Bosnian war artist Howson, draws inspiration from
methodologies, and pickup businesses are often world unrest, religious beliefs and mythology,
the subject of fierce public criticism. Despite this, utilizing the techniques of his heroes; Goya, DaVinci
hundreds of millions of dollars are spent globally and El Greco in creating his artwork ‘Prophecy’.
on attending seminars, downloading online courses Discover the difficulties he has faced throughout his
and on one-on-one coaching sessions that men feel life that push his creative output, and marvel at the
can give them the dating life of their dreams. In the monumental reveal of the finished painting. The end
minds of students, many of the instructors become result is a wonderfully crafted, candid documentary
more than just teachers – they become idols. From that celebrates the genius of an artist at the top of
the glossy exterior, where courses are packaged as his game.
self-improvement, to the dark underbelly of sexual Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Artscapes -
assault, pyramid scheme marketing and secret International premiere
collusion, this documentary pulls back the curtain to
reveal a world that is fascinating and horrific in equal Details
measure. Year: 2019
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Making Believe - Running Time: 82 mins
World premiere Director: Charlie Paul
Producer: Lucy Paul
Details Executive Producer: Lucy Paul, Mark Thomas,
Year: 2019 Ewan Angus, Alistair Currie
Running Time: 96 mins Editor: Joby Gee
Director: Matthew O’Connor, Barnaby O’Connor Director of Photography: Charlie Paul
Producer: Mike Willoughby, James De Val, William
Watson, Matthew O’Connor, Barnaby O’Connor Co-
Producer: Giselle Fryatt Executive Producer: William
Watson
Editor: Matthew O’Connor, Barnaby O’Connor
Director of Photography: Vince Knight, Claire
Buxton, Tom Webster Consulting Producer:
Cassandra Roberts
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
UK, New Zealand co- Ivy Film Itch Film Wide House
production c/o Matthew O’Connor, Lucy Paul 9, Rue Bleue
Ivy Film (UK), Two Man Barnaby O’Connor 1 Mackenzie Road 75009 Paris
Crew Ltd (UK), Voodoo info@ivyfilm.com www. London France
Productions (UK), New ivyfilm.com N7 8QZ +33 1 53 95 24 41
Zealand Feature Films (NZ), lucy@itchfilm.com infos@widehouse.org
TMI Pictures (NZ) www.widehouse.org
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 211ST 1ST
The Quiet One Romantic Comedy
Synopsis Synopsis
A behind-the-scenes look at the highs and lows of A documentary that goes beneath the surface of
the life and career of Bill Wyman, former founding our favourite films, seeking to better understand
member of the Rolling Stones and renaissance man the way we view love, relationships and romance.
of rock and roll. Using Bill’s personal archive and From It Happened One Night to Runaway Bride,
including interviews with Bill’s family, bandmates from clumsy meet cutes to rain-soaked declarations
and friends, the film provides a fresh insight into the of love, these films reflect our experiences but are
reality behind the myths and legends of music’s rock often just as problematic as they are comforting.
and roll years as we explore the experiences and They’re hugely successful and deeply loved by many,
stories of an amusing, engaging and down-to-earth but – being frequently dismissed as guilty pleasures
man; often simply called ‘The Quiet One’. – they have often avoided critical analysis. Helped
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - by a diverse chorus of critics, actors and filmmakers,
Spotlight Documentary - World premiere and with original songs by her band Summer Camp,
director Elizabeth Sankey embarks on a journey of
Details investigation and self-discovery.
Year: 2019 Official Selection International Film Festival
Running Time: 95 mins Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere
Director: Oliver Murray
Producer: Jennifer Corcoran, Jamie Clark Details
Co-Producer: Suzanne Accosta Year: 2019
Executive Producer: Jason Bick, Ian Grenfell, Dan Running Time: 79 mins
Braun, Charlotte Arden, Peter Gerard Dunphy Director: Elizabeth Sankey
Editor: Anne Perri Producer: Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura,
Screenwriter: Oliver Murray Oskar Pimlott
Director of Photography: Tom Siddel Editor: Elizabeth Sankey
Production Designer: Sarah Kane Screenwriter: Elizabeth Sankey
Sound: Jon Clarke Sound: Jeremy Warmsley
Music: Paul Leonard Morgan Music: Jeremy Warmsley
Principal Cast: Bill Wyman Principal Cast: Jessica Barden, Charlie Lyne,
Simran Hans, Brodie Lancaster, Anne T Donahue,
Cameron Cooke, Eleanor McDowall, Laura Snapes
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
My Accomplice Submarine Entertainment Romantic Comedy Movie Ltd
Oliver Murray 197 Grand Street, Suite 6W Elizabeth Sankey
contact@olliemurray.com New York +44 (0)7890636093
NY 10013 USA elizabethsankey@gmail.com
+1 212 625 1410
info@submarine.com
www.submarine.com
22 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIESRudeboy: The Story of Scheme Birds
Trojan Records
Synopsis Synopsis
“The seeds for the multicultural society we live in As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage
now were formed on the dancefloor back in the troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading
day,” says Don Letts by way of introduction to Scottish steel town. But in a place where “you either
Nicolas Jack Davies’ documentary about Trojan get knocked up or locked up,” innocent games can
Records, which celebrates its 50th anniversary easily turn into serious crime.
this year. The company was founded by Windrush Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 -
immigrant Lee Gopthal, against a backdrop of rising Documentary Competition - World premiere
racial hatred. Rudeboy charts the label’s evolution
from 1960s ska and rock-steady to the chart-topping Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – The Changing
hits that introduced reggae to a global audience, Face of Europe
while also recalling the prejudice that the music’s
pioneering artists and producers had to overcome in Details
London. Blending original interviews with evocative Year: 2019
archive footage and cinematic reconstructions, Running Time: 90 mins
the film is a timely celebration of British Jamaican Director: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
working-class youth culture, style and ingenuity. Producer: Mario Adamson, Ruth Reid
Editor: Hanna Lejonqvist SFK
Official Selection IDFA 2018 - International premiere Screenwriter: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
Director of Photography: Ellinor Hallin
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 86 mins
Director: Nicolas Jack Davies
Producer: Sam Bridger, Vivienne Perry
Executive Producer: Thomas Benski, Marisa Clifford,
Kathy Rivkin Daum, Justus Haerder, Brian Levy
Editor: Chris Duveen
Director of Photography: Jonas Mortensen
Sound: Supervising Sound Editor, Sound
Effects Editor: Jay Price
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
UK, Jamaica coproduction Submarine Entertainment UK, Sweden co-production Syndicado
Pulse Films 197 Grand Street, Suite 6W Gid Films (UK), Sisyfos Film 121 Beaconsfield Avenue
17 Hanbury Street New York Production (SE) Toronto
London NY 10013 USA Canada
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+44 (0)20 7426 5700 info@submarine.com admin@syndicado.com
info@pulsefilms.co.uk www.submarine.com www.syndicado.com
www.pulsefilms.com
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 23Seahorse: The Dad Who The Serengeti Rules
Gave Birth
Synopsis Synopsis
One trans man’s pioneering quest to fulfil an age-old Beginning in the 1960s, a small band of young
desire: starting his own family. This is the story of the scientists headed out into the wilderness, driven
dad who gave birth. by an insatiable curiosity about how nature
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - works. Immersed in some of the most remote and
Documentary Competition - World premiere spectacular places on Earth – from the majestic
Serengeti to the Amazon jungle; from the Arctic
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – The Changing Ocean to Pacific tide pools – they discovered a
Face of Europe single set of rules that govern all life. Now in the
twilight of their eminent careers, these five unsung
Details heroes of modern ecology share the stories of their
Year: 2019 adventures, reveal how their pioneering work flipped
Running Time: 94 mins our view of nature on its head, and give us a chance
Director: Jeanie Finlay to reimagine the world as it could and should be.
Producer: Andrea Cornwell
Executive Producer: Patrick Vernon, Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 -
Orlando von Einsiedel, Charlie Phillips Spotlight Documentary - World premiere
Editor: Alice Powell
Director of Photography: Richard Jephcote, Details
Mark Bushnell Year: 2018
Sound: Pip Norton Running Time: 84 mins
Music: Tara Creme Director: Nicolas Brown
Commissioned by: BBC Storyville Producer: David Allen; Story
Producer: Catherine Watling; Natural History
Producer: 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
Principal Cast: Sean B. Carroll, Tony Sinclair,
Production Company Mary Power, John Terborgh, Jim Estes
A Grain Media Production
in association with Glimmer
Films and The Guardian Production Company Sales Agent
Grain Media An HHMI Tangled Bank Submarine Entertainment
Unit 3 Ashby Space Studios (US), Passion 197 Grand Street, Suite 6W
Ashby Mews Planet (UK) production with New York
London support of Simons Science NY 10013 USA
SE4 1TB Sandbox +1 212 625 1410
+44 (0)20 8690 1010 Passion Planet info@submarine.com
info@grainmedia.co.uk c/o Passion Pictures www.submarine.com
www.grainmedia.co.uk County House
Glimmer Films 33-34 Rathbone Place
14 - 18 Broad Street London
Nottingham W1T 1JN
NG1 3AL +44 (0)20 7323 9933
hello@glimmerfilms.com info@passion-pictures.com
www.glimmerfilms.com www.passion-pictures.com
24 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES1ST
The Trial of Ratko Mladic Unsettling
Synopsis Synopsis
Accused of horrific war crimes, the “Butcher Tekoa is a trendy hipster colony for Israeli settlers
of Bosnia” finally faces a verdict in the biggest on the West Bank, where none of the controversial
trial since Nuremberg. Embedded with both the residents want to speak to the media. From the
prosecution and defense, this courtroom thriller moment filmmaker Iris Zaki arrives, tension fills the
reveals the troublingly nuanced Serbian–Bosnian air. She sets up a small pop-up film studio in the
conflict that still rages on. middle of the small town, and stays put for over one
Official Selection IDFA 2018 - World premiere month in order to meet the young settlers face to
face. A simple intervention, which creates a complex
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – Special chain of reactions from those who eventually
Presentations agree to talk to her. From a woman who in the
middle of an interview admits to being a fascist, to
Details another who has survived a knife attack by a young
Year: 2018 Palestinian – and has forgiven him. ‘Unsettling’
Running Time: 100 mins is made by Iris Zaki alone as a social experiment
Director: Henry Singer, Rob Miller that highlights the contrasts and contradictions of
Producer: Henry Singer, Rob Miller, Ida Bruusgaard the settlers’ self-perception, but which does so in
Executive Producer: Raney Aronson-Rath, something as rare as an active conversation with
Jutta Krug, Mandy Chang, Barbara Troyen them. A conceptual ploy that places Zaki’s film in the
Editor: Anna Price field between artistic practice and political activism,
Director of Photography: Richard Gillespie and which reaches beyond blind criticism.
Sound: Håkon Lammetun (CPH:DOX brochure)
Music: Anne Nikitin
Archive Producer: Geoff Walton Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - World premiere
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 70 mins
Director: Dr. Iris Zaki
Producer: Dr. Iris Zaki
Editor: Oren Yaniv
Screenwriter: Dr. Iris Zaki, Oren Yaniv
Director of Photography: Or Azulay
Production Note: This film was produced an element
of Iris Zaki’s PhD programme at Royal Holloway,
Production Company Sales Agent University of London
UK, Norway co-production Java Films
Sandpaper Films (UK) in 38 Quai du Point du Jour
co-production with Peggy 92100 Boulogne
Pictures (UK), Sant & Usant France
(NO) +33 1 74 71 33 17 Production Company
contact@javafilms.fr UK, Israel co-production
Sandpaper Films www.javafilms.tv
Henry Singer and Rob Miller Dr. Iris Zaki
contact@sandpaperfilms.com +44 (0)7507 605505
www.sandpaperfilms.com irismtv@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/
Peggy Pictures Ida iriszakifilms
Bruusgaard
ida@peggypictures.com
www.peggypictures.com
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