documentary
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Dependence (2026)
Dir: Grace Harper Brighouse Prod: Alistair Payne-James, Caitlin Mae Burke Dur: 94'00" Grace returned home to make a film about her father, estranged after years of his Oxycontin addiction. She knew it would be a black comedy, but she couldn’t anticipate all that came next. Many years later, the trove of footage becomes the basis for a funny, tender, and poignant essay on family bonds—folding past and present, before and after—as a father and daughter search for understanding in the limited time they have left. Official Selection Camden International Film Festival 2026 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026 140 Films |
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Goodbye Breasts! (2025)
Dir/Writer/Prod: Joanna Callaghan Prod: Liliana Gryzbowska Dur: 69'00" Following a double mastectomy, the film chronicles the inspiring and offbeat recovery of Joanna, a two-time hereditary cancer patient who take a radically creative approach to healing. Through a blend of self-shot footage, animation, and archival clips, the film brings humour and heart to the sensitive topic of breast cancer recovery. Edited with Chiara Bellesia. Winner Audience Award at Cinecity Brighton Film Festival 2025 Official Selection CineHealth 2025 Official Selection 37 Girona Film Festival 2025 Heraclitus Pictures |
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This Moment and the Next (2024)
Dir: Rosie Morris Prod: Nic Blower Dur: 75'00" In the summer of 2023, Britain, reeling from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and the war in Ukraine, was facing an ever deepening Cost of Living Crisis. At the same time, the country was preparing for the coronation of the new King. Shot on the Greenstead Estate in Colchester over that summer, this observational documentary weaves together moments from the lives of the people who live and work there. University of Essex |
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My Blonde GF (2023)
Dir: Rosie Morris Prod: Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Daria Nitsche, Clair Maleney Exec Prod: Hannah Bush Bailey, Jess Gormley, Ekaterina Ochagavia, Lindsay Poulton Dur: 19'00" In November 2020, a neighbour knocked on Helen’s door to tell her he had seen explicit photos of her on a porn site. Her face had been digitally edited onto images of women in sexually explicit scenarios. She called the police, who said there is nothing they could do, no crime had been committed. Here Helen shares her experiences of this increasingly common form of non–physical sexual violence and the impact it has had on her mental health and confronts her unresolved feelings about who created these images and why. Official selection Sheffield DocFest 2023 Official selection London Short Film Festival 2024 Official selection Krakow Film Festival 2023 Official selection 16 Days 16 Films 2023 Official selection Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2023 Nominated Shortlisted for Best Documentary Short at the Grierson Awards 2024 Tyke Films/ BFI Doc Society Made of Truth / Guardian Documentaries |
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Phantom Parrot (2023)
Dir: Kate Stonehill Prod: Steven Lake Dur: 104' A human rights activist is prosecuted under U.K. terror laws for refusing to hand over the passwords to his electronic devices during a border stop, unveiling unsettling questions about modern espionage and digital privacy. Edited with Emiliano Battista. Official selection Sheffield DocFest 2023 Official selection CPH:DOX 2023 Official selection DokuFest 2023 Official selection Zurich Film Festival 2023 Official selection Galway Film Fleadh 2023 Brass Mill Media / Bright West Entertainment |
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Don't Kill the Art School (2022)
Dir/Prod: Kate Stonehill / Justin Hardy Dur: 60'00" With full access to one of the world's most historic arts schools, Don’t Kill the Art School reflects on the Slade School of Fine Art’s history and future, to ask: what does the future of arts education look like? Featuring both emerging artists (Victoria Cantons, Ellis Parkinson) and established luminaries (Alvaro Barrington, Phyllida Barlow), the film explores questions that are critical to the future of cultural institutions redefining themselves today. |
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Skyward (2022)
Dir: Jessica Bishopp Prod: Laura Shacham, Lisa Marie Russo Dur: 19'29" Edited with Jamie Kataky, this creative documentary follows two young birdwatchers, Mya and Arjun, as they raise awareness of conservation and climate change in their local areas, while navigating the challenges of coming of age. Official selection Aspen Shorts 2022 Official selection BFI London Film Festival 2022 Official selection EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2022 She Makes Productions / BFI Doc Society Made of Truth / Guardian Documentaries |
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Record (2021)
Dir/Prod: Joanna Callaghan Dur: 55'00" How do we make sense of the past through what we record and keep, what we make and share? Tracing her journey from Australia to the UK, director Joanna Callaghan weaves together her own personal history with a wider story of colonisation, migration and the role of geography in identity. A film about holding on and letting go. Heraclitus Pictures |
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Non Western (2020)
Dir/Prod: Laura Plancarte Exec. Prod: Iván Trujillo Dur: 93'00" NON WESTERN follows a Native/Non Native couple in Montana, ahead of their wedding. We see the challenges their interracial family face, and through their struggles we witness an on-going chain of oppression, exploring how gender and identity issues affect different generations in Montana. Watch the trailer here... Official selection Visions du Réel 2020 Official selection IDFA 2020 LP Films/TV Unam |
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Independent Miss Craigie (2020)
Dir/Prod: Lizzie Thynne Ass. Prod: Hollie Price, Adele Tulli Dur: 100'00" Sometime after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911-1999) reopens an old suitcase that she left in her house. The contents prompt a series of memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected. Independent Miss Craigie uses the director’s unseen papers, along with her films, letters, photographs and interviews to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical films made and distributed. Official selection Female Eye Film Festival 2022 Winner Learning on Screen Awards 2023 BFI / Arts and Humanities Research Council / University of Sussex |
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Northern Ballers (2020)
Dir: Rhys Aaron Lewis Prod: Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Daria Nitsche Exec Prod: Lisa Marie Russo Dur: 19'00" Andy is a 6 foot 5, 15-year-old living in inner-city Leeds with one dream: to make it to the NBA, determined to show the world that a kid from Africa can make it in basketball. With GCSEs fast approaching and familial pressure to pursue academics rather than sports, will Andy be able to focus on basketball, help his team get to the league and most importantly... will he dunk during a game? Official selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2020 Official selection Bolton International Film Festival 2020 Official selection SOUL Fest 2021 Official selection Venice Shorts 2021 Official selection Denton Black Film Festival 2022 Winner Best Documentary Sheffield Short Film Festival 2021 Tyke Films / BFI Doc Society Made of Truth |
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Left Coast (2020)
Dir/Prod: Carol Salter Prod: Fleur Nieddu Exec. Prod: Luke Schiller, Rebecca Mark-Lawson Dur: 14'26" In the coastal towns of North West England, dedicated volunteers hand out kindness and food to help those left behind. Edited with Emiliano Battista. Part of The Uncertain Kingdom, a collection of twenty short films, offering a unique portrait of the UK today. Find out more here... In cinemas nationwide in April 2020 |
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Hermanos / Siblings (2017)
Writer/Dir: Laura Plancarte Prod: Laura Plancarte Exec. Prod: Mike Lerner Dur: 80'00" Set against the backdrop of the 2016 US Presidential election, Hermanos examines illegal immigration between the United States and Mexico, and the disparities between the fantasy and the reality of the American dream for people living on both sides of the border. Two Mexican brothers, deported from the US for life, dream of returning and long for their mother, who abandoned them as children, in pursuit of her own American dream. Meanwhile, Miss Montana '78 finds herself down on her luck, mourning the simplicity of her childhood, her lost relatives and praying that Donald Trump's Presidency will fix America and her life. Watch the trailer here... Official selection Raindance Film Festival 2017 Official selection FICG in LA 2017 Official selection Guadalajara Film Festival 2017 Winner Best Documentary Audience Award San Antonio Film Festival 2017 Roast Beef Productions/LP Films |
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Life and Death Row (2016)
Series 2 Episode 1 "Execution" Dir/Prod: Marina Parker Exec. Prod: Aysha Rafaele, Fergus O'Brien Dur: 59'00" In 2009, 21 year old Daniel Lopez struck and killed a police officer with his car, as he was fleeing police. Sentenced to death for this crime, he has spent the last six years resisting all appeals in an effort to speed up his execution. His state-appointed attorneys argue that he is using the justice system as a form of suicide. His family are pleading with him to fight to stay alive for them. This film documents the five weeks leading up to Daniel's set execution date. Made for BBC Three online, it has also been broadcast on BBC One. BBC Three |
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Half Way (2015)
Dir: Daisy-May Hudson Prod: Alice Hughes, Thea Paulett, Claire O'Neill Dur: 93'00" A moving portrait of the UK housing crisis, told through the experience of one family. Filmed over two years, Daisy-May is both director and daughter as her and her family fight to retain their dignity whilst they wait to be rehoused by the council. Watch the trailer here... Nominated for Best Cinema Documentary at the Grierson Awards 2017 Beehive Films |
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Tierra Caliente (2015)
Writer/Dir: Laura Plancarte Prod: Luke Schiller, Ellis Freeman, Enrique Arroyo Schroeder & Carolina Amador Exec. Prod: Mike Lerner Dur: 80'00" This feature length hybrid documentary provides a window into the lives of an ordinary family from the Mexican state of Guerrero. Caught in the crossfire between the Narco, the military and the vigilantes, their lives have changed beyond recognition since Ex-President Felipe Calderón declared war on the drug cartels in 2006. Watch the trailer here... Winner of Best Film at the World of Film International Festival 2016 Nominated for Best Feature at Guadalajara Film Festival 2015 Official selection Raindance Film Festival 2015 Roast Beef Productions/Clownfish Films |
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Paint It Pink (2015)
Dir/Prod: Sophie Maccorquodale Exec. Prod: Richard Mortimer Dur: 42'00" Following the stars of the East London alternative drag scene, Sink the Pink, as they prepare for their first ever Summer Ball. Backstage and front of house footage inter-cuts with intimate interviews revealing the humour, the politics, the tears and the love between these vibrant, creative and inspiring characters. SMACC Films |
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We Did Not Fall from the Sky (2014)
Dir: Georgia Oakley Prod: Tabitha Breese Dur: 12'57" Purushi, Pratiksha and Shalu are three trans women, and best friends, struggling to find their place in contemporary Indian society. On the 15th April 2014 the Supreme Court of India passed a law recognising the transgender community as India's "third sex". What changes, if any, this will bring. |
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Love Me Tender (2014)
Dir: Timothy Knights Prod: Timothy Knights, Vera Simmonds Dur: 27'26" A fragment of time in the lives of three young men who are facing the future with trepidation. One just out of jail, one becoming housed, and one adjusting to the separation from his girlfriend and their daughter. Their tentative optimism is framed by chaotic euphoria, boredom, isolation and yearning. Who can you trust if you can’t trust yourself? Watch the trailer here... Official selection Sheffield Doc Fest 2014 Shortlisted for the Grierson Awards 2014 (Best Student Documentary) Official selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2015 |
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Laura (2012)
Dir: Timothy Knights Prod: Timothy Knights Dur: 20'16" Laura is sleeping in a fisherman's hut. The fishermen care for her, but think she should return home to her mother. Laura, a fantasist, is drawn to the fishing community as a means of escape, and yet she talks about her mother endlessly. The film follows her from the seemingly idyllic world of the fishermen which, fuelled by alcohol, erupts, sending her back home. We discover how a complicated past has held mother and daughter in an extraordinary and perhaps destructive bond. Official selection East End Film Festival 2013 |