Christopher Swayne

Filmes

Training Teachers to Kill
Editor
In a remote training camp in Butler County, Ohio, we meet school teachers who are learning how to shoot, and if necessary, kill. This feature documentary explores the heated and divisive debate around how best to protect pupils, as schools prepare for gun attacks and school boards in America seriously consider arming their teachers. The film follows a group of teachers who attend FASTER, one of America’s most controversial summer schools where teachers are trained to use guns, deal with potential school shooting scenarios and if the situation demands it, kill.
Manchester: The Night of the Bomb
Editor
A powerful retelling of Britain's deadliest terrorist attack since 7/7. 2017's Manchester Arena terrorist attack, through the eyes of teenage girls who survived the attack and key members of the emergency services.
Golan: A Farewell to Mr Cinema
Editor
The final documentary in Christopher Sykes’ trilogy about legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, and studio mogul Menahem Golan looks back to the prolific filmmaker’s great Hollywood days, then forward to reveal a man who, in his eighties, still buzzes with energy, talking lovingly about what inspires him as he anticipates making a new blockbuster and receiving the Oscar he’s always wanted. - Denver Film Society
Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
Editor
For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. But in 1997, the same year that she received an MBE for her services to music, disaster struck. Barbara was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. This is the story of Barbara's inspiring and creative struggle with this disease, whose physical effects are particularly cruel, and visible, in the life of an improvising jazz musician.
To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion
Editor
Top scientists want to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and the planets.
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
Producer
Documentary looking at Orson Welles and the production of the film CITIZEN KANE fifty years ago, considering the furore that accompanied it and the real life press baron William Randolph Hearst upon whom Kane is based, and his efforts to halt the film, destroy the negative and persecution of people involved with its production and showing. It includes BBC interviews with Welles made in 1960 and 1982, and film historian Robert Carringer looks at the scenes that never made it to the screen. American film critic Pauline Kael also analyses the film's enduring appeal. Extracts from "The RKO Story" (producer: Rosemary Wilton) and "Yesterday's Whitness" (producers: Christopher Cook and Stephen Peet).
The Last Moguls
Editor
Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!
On a Paving Stone Mounted
Sound