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.

Em 1847, um oficial da Cavalaria americana é enviado para um forte numa região remota da Califórnia, na Sierra Nevada, onde aparece um estranho com uma história misteriosa sobre canibais. A situação se complica ainda mais quando eles saem para investigar o local onde teria acontecido a tragédia.

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.

Na beira de uma bela lagoa vive um rapaz, Matt Leland (Chris O'Donnell), que tem o hábito de ver as estrelas com um telescópio. Numa noite ele vê Casey Roberts (Drew Barrymore), uma bela jovem que mora no outro extremo da lagoa. Matt sente-se muito atraído por ela e traça um plano para conhecê-la, atingindo seu objetivo. Porém Matt ignora o fato de que Casey tem acessos de depressão e esteve em várias instituições psiquiátricas, por boa parte da sua vida. O pai dela, Richard (Jude Cicciolella), quer manter a filha em um sanatório, enquanto que sua mãe, Margaret (Joan Allen), quer o melhor para sua filha mas não está certa do que Casey precisa. Após dar um falso alarme de incêndio para falar com Matt sobre uma noite de autógrafos, Casey é novamente internada. Matt a ajuda a fugir do sanatório e, juntos, decidem ir para o México. Entretanto durante a fuga Matt constata que o modo de Casey agir é mais sério do que ele imaginava.

Padre Greg (Linus Roache) é enviado para trabalhar em uma paróquia em Liverpool. Ele fica surpreso ao ver que seu novo superior, padre Matthew (Tom Wilkinson), não cumpre o celibato, mantendo um relacionamento com uma mulher. Este é apenas o primeiro fator que fará com que Greg entre em conflito e questione algumas regras da Igreja. Um segundo fator é a descoberta da própria homossexualidade, quando se apaixona por um rapaz (Robert Carlyle). Mas o que mais o tortura é quando uma menina de 14 anos lhe conta que sofre abusos por parte do pai, mas Greg está de mãos atadas pelo sigilo da confissão. Dividido entre sua vocação e sua sexualidade, entre as regras da Igreja e os problemas que testemunha, Greg teme ter sua fé abalada. O filme foi proibido pela Igreja Católica.

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.