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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 4
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 Fifth Column Films Burning Bridges Switzerland, UK coproduction maximage Rob Curry Paul Williams Neugasse 6 maximage Filmproduktion (CH), film@fifthcolumn.org.uk paul@burning-bridges.com 8005 Zurich SDI Productions (UK) www.fifthcolumn.org.uk Switzerland Burning Bridges SDI Productions +41 44 274 8866 Paul Williams SDI (Scottish Documentary info@maximage.ch paul@burning-bridges.com Institute) www.maximage.ch www.fifthcolumn.org.uk Sonja Henrici SDI ECA Eve Korzec 74 Lauriston Place 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh Edinburgh EH3 9DF EH3 9DF +44 (0)131 6515874 +44 (0)131 6515874 sonja@scottishdocinstitute.com eve@scotdoc.com www.scottishdocinstitute.com www.scottishdocinstitute.com 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 www.cintsales.com www.kewmedia.com SW8 1RP +44 (0)773 856 0860 info@salonpictures.co.uk www.salonpictures.co.uk 10 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
1ST 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 11
1ST 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 DOCUMENTARIES
The 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 Donal Foreman WC2H 8LP EC1V 3QN donalforeman@gmail.com +44 (0)20 7836 8660 +44 (0)20 7253 6244 info@newblackfilms.com info@dogwoof.com www.newblackfilms.com www.dogwoof.com FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 13
1ST 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 DOCUMENTARIES
1ST 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 Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent UK, Brazil coproduction Submarine Entertainment Pulse Films Dogwoof Global 197 Grand Street, Suite 6W 17 Hanbury Street Overseas House Nods and Volleys Entertainment New York London 19-23 Ironmonger Row (UK), We Are Buzzers (UK) NY 10013 E1 6QR London We Are Buzzers Media Ltd. USA +44 (0)20 7426 5700 EC1V 3QN 100 The Fable +1 212 625 1410 info@pulsefilms.co.uk +44 (0)20 7253 6244 261C City Road info@submarine.com www.pulsefilms.com global@dogwoof.com London www.submarine.com www.dogwoofglobal.com EC1V 1AP enquiries@wearebuzzers.com www.wearebuzzers.com FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 15
1ST 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) A Hard Working Movies (US), Miles Street 19-23 Ironmonger Row Cinereach (US) production in London London association with Doc Society (UK) SW8 1RP EC1V 3QN +44 (0)773 856 0860 Doc Society +44 (0)20 7253 6244 info@salonpictures.co.uk hello@docsociety.org www. info@dogwoof.com www.salonpictures.co.uk docsociety.org www.dogwoof.com Cinetic Media (North America sales) 555 W 25th Street, 4th Floor New York NY 10001 USA +1 212 204 7979 emily@cineticmedia.com www.cineticmedia.com 16 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
1ST 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 A Blinder Films (IE), Spring Films association with Creativity Capital 242 Acklam Road 18, Rue Quincampoix (UK) production London 75004 Paris Salon Pictures W10 5JJ Spring Films France Unit 5B Rudolf Place +44 (0)20 7183 4739 47 Conduit Street +33 1 44 61 77 48 Miles Street info@embankmentfilms.com London cat@catndocs.com London www.embankmentfilms.com W1S 2YP info@catndocs.com SW8 1RP +44 (0)20 33274930 www.catndocs.com +44 (0)773 856 0860 info@springfilms.tv info@salonpictures.co.uk www.springfilms.tv www.salonpictures.co.uk Ailish Bracken Misfits Entertainments Blinder Films 29-31 Oxford Street ailish@blinderfilms.com London www.blinderfilms.com W1D 2DR info@misfitsentertainment.com www.misfitsentertainment.com FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 17
1ST 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 DOCUMENTARIES
No 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) New York W1B 4BG 17 Hanbury Street NY 10017 Fine Point Films +44 (0)20 7851 6500 London USA 2nd Floor Callender House info@kewmedia.com E1 6QR +1 212 210 1400 58-60 Upper Arthur Street www.kewmedia.com +44 (0)20 7426 5700 sara.hinzman@aenetworks.com Belfast info@pulsefilms.co.uk www.aetv.com BT1 4GJ www.pulsefilms.com Northern Ireland +44 (0)28 9031 5930 info@finepointfilms.com www.finepointfilms.com FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 19
Of 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 DOCUMENTARIES
The 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 www.metfilm.co.uk London London W5 5EP W1T 1JN al@metfilm.co.uk +44 (0)20 7323 9933 +44 (0)7768 31557 info@passion-pictures.com www.metfilm.co.uk www.passion-pictures.com FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 21
1ST 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 Ttuckfield@30west.com London Mgreen@30west.com W1T 1JN +44 (0)20 7323 9933 info@passion-pictures.com www.passion-pictures.com 22 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
1ST 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 EH3 9DF +44 (0)131 6515871 finlay@scottishdocinstitute.com www.scottishdocinstitute.com FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES 23
1ST 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 info@wearefinishedfilms.com 19-23 Ironmonger Row www.wearefinished.com London EC1V 3QN Passion Pictures +44 (0)20 7253 6244 County House info@dogwoof.com 33-34 Rathbone Place www.dogwoof.com London W1T 1JN +44 (0)20 7323 9933 info@passion-pictures.com films@passion-pictures.com www.passion-pictures.com 24 FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
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Betty – 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 info@lightboxent.com E9 7EF info.uk@lightboxent.com p.cox@nativevoicefilms.com www.lightboxent.com SHORT DOCUMENTARIES 27
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