Antonia Bird

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.

A documentary directed by Antonia Bird.

A documentary directed by Antonia Bird.

After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. Instead of spending time with his grandson, son of his married son Mark, Fitz opts to join in the investigation of a serial killer who has an apparent dislike of Americans in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.

A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a young miner who goes on strike as soon as the dispute between the Thatcher government and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) begins. Meanwhile, her sister Linda's husband Paul is a local policeman. Paul becomes more and more voluble in his opposition to the strike, while Linda looks around her and witnesses the women of her community suddenly find a voice and independence. The scene is set for political and personal conflicts which would change their lives forever.

A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.

TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.

TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.

A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.

1847년의 아메리카. 개척과 야욕의 시대에 일확천금을 꿈꾸는 사람들은 금광을 캐기 위해 서쪽으로 영역을 넓혀가면서 전쟁을 일으키고 미국은 곳곳에서 살인과 약탈이 빈번한 암흑의 세월을 맞는다. 미국과 멕시코간에 벌어진 전쟁에서 존 대위는 전방의 한 전투지에서 그의 대원들과 고립된다. 존과 대원들은 네바다 산맥의 추위와 허기에 시달리고 있을 즈음, 어느날 정체 불명의 사나이 콘 혼이 그들의 기지로 찾아온다. 대원들은 콘 혼과 함께 식량 조달을 위한 여행에 그를 동참시키지만, 동료가 흘리는 피를 보는 콘 홀의 반응이 심상치 않음을 느낀다. 이를 의심한 대원들은 콜 혼의 결박하고 그가 생활했던 동굴을 찾아간다. 조사중 동굴 속에서 사람들의 시체와 식인의 흔적을 본 존 대위는 경악하고 동굴밖으로 나오지만 이미 콘 혼의 손에 대원 모두가 생명을 잃은 후다. 죽음의 위기를 넘기고 가까스로 콜 혼의 손아귀로 부터 빠져나온 존은 마을에 도착하고 몇일동안 계속해서 사람의 생살을 먹는 콜의 악몽에 시달린다. 그러던 어느 날 새로운 사령관이 부임해오고 그를 맞으러 나간 존은 새로운 대위가 바로 살인마 콜이라는 것을 알고 경악하는데...

Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.

Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental institution. Matt springs her out, and together the young lovers head on a road trip. They believe their love can "cure" Casey's problems. Matt starts to wonder, though, if are they inspired or misguided.

젊지만 보수적인 그렉 신부(Father Greg Pilkington: 라이너스 로체 분)는 리버풀 빈민가에 위치하고 있는 새로운 교구에 위임된다. 거기서 매튜 신부(Father Matthew Thomas: 톰 윌킨슨 분)와 함께 지내게 되는데, 매튜는 교단의 보수주의와 형식주의에 항거하며 적극적인 포교 활동을 벌이는 인물이다. 게다가 독신의 맹세를 어기고 가정부와 연인 관계를 맺고 있는 매튜 신부. 그렉은 이런 매튜를 보며 혼란스러워진다. 교회와 하느님의 가르침에 회의를 느끼게 되는 그렉은 신부복을 벗고 들른 술집에서 우연히 그레이엄(Graham: 로버트 칼라일 분)을 만나 하룻 밤 깊은 사랑을 나눈다. 다음 날 아이들을 상대로 고해성사를 받던 그렉 신부는 어린 소녀 리사(Lisa Unsworth: 크리스틴 트레마코 분)로부터 의붓 아버지에게 성폭행을 당하고 있다는 고해를 듣게된다. 고통받는 리사를 구해줘야 한다는 생각을 하지만 고해성사는 절대 공개돼서는 안된다는 규율을 어길 수 없어 그렉은 고뇌하기 시작한다. 그리고 이 사실을 눈치 챈 리사의 아버지(Mr. Unsworth: 로버트 푸그 분)는 간섭하지 말라며 그렉을 협박한다. 어느 날 리사의 어머니(Mrs. Unsworth: 레슬리 샤프 분)는 자신의 남편이 리사를 성폭행하는 장면을 목격하게 되고, 그렉을 찾아와 이 사실을 미리 알고 있었으면서 아무것도 하지 않은 그렉을 원망한다. 자신의 무기력함에 괴로워하던 그렉은 그레이엄을 찾아가나, 두 사람의 연애 장면이 경찰에 적발되어, 다음날 그렉 신부가 동성애자라는 기사가 신문에 크게 실린다. 결국 자살을 시도하는 그렉. 그러나 그것은 수포로 돌아가고 주교는 그렉에게 근신을 명한다.

Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.

While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.

A black comedy and period piece set during the Thatcher years, it tells the story of an affair between two academics, previously devoted wife and mother Charity Walton (Harriet Walter) and serial womanizer Mark Carleton (Bill Nighy)

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.

Play by Tom McClenaghan, about a routine patrol in the submarine HMS Superior. Strange, near-farcical take on tensions, eccentricities and sexuality among the crew of a Polaris submarine, on a six-week tour of duty off the coast of Faslane in Scotland. Among their number, Neil Pearson is the wily, mascara-wearing, cross-dressing messhand AB Seaman ‘Cock’ Roach, using his Bilko-esque charm to scale the naval pecking order and positively thrive in this tiny, cloistered world

Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by the late, then resident director Antonia Bird and featured Paul McGann, Robin Hayter, Dorian Healy, Peter Lovstrom, Paul Moriarty, and Beverley Martin in the cast. The play toured youth clubs and community centres across London in a bid to engage young people in the social and political issues of the day and to unite them against racism and fascism. This film replete with exclusive interviews from Griffiths, musical director Andy Roberts and guests Alan Gilbey (east end writer) and Micky Geggus (Cockney Rejects) looks back at the tour by way of a reunion of the play's original cast and crew almost 30 years later.

Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by the late, then resident director Antonia Bird and featured Paul McGann, Robin Hayter, Dorian Healy, Peter Lovstrom, Paul Moriarty, and Beverley Martin in the cast. The play toured youth clubs and community centres across London in a bid to engage young people in the social and political issues of the day and to unite them against racism and fascism. This film replete with exclusive interviews from Griffiths, musical director Andy Roberts and guests Alan Gilbey (east end writer) and Micky Geggus (Cockney Rejects) looks back at the tour by way of a reunion of the play's original cast and crew almost 30 years later.