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Meet the men who love to make and play cigar box guitars. From post-industrial British towns, they have created a self-identity through making these unique three-stringed guitars.
Director
In northern England people rediscover the art of building guitars out of everything between a shoe box and an old radio. A portrait of the "Cigar Box Guitar Revolution".
Writer
In Lift Share, two strangers, one desperate to find her child, the other reluctant to attend the funeral of his estranged violent father, imagine what might await them as they journey towards the haunting beauty of the Outer Hebrides and just maybe, a better future.
Director
In Lift Share, two strangers, one desperate to find her child, the other reluctant to attend the funeral of his estranged violent father, imagine what might await them as they journey towards the haunting beauty of the Outer Hebrides and just maybe, a better future.
Director
Made entirely of Scottish film archive, a journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote's poetic music and lyrics
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Grub, a young surfer, is caught in a conflict between his boss, former surf legend Claw, and his passion for Vanessa, a mysterious Maori woman tattooist. Driven by his desire to be tattooed and 'become a man', Grub ignores warnings that Vanessa could be 'Hine Nui Te Po', the Maori sea goddess and mythical 'Eater of Life'. Rebelling against Claw, he is drawn ever deeper into Vanessa's ambiguous world of pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality, until finally the young surfer must face death in order to understand life.
Director
Grub, a young surfer, is caught in a conflict between his boss, former surf legend Claw, and his passion for Vanessa, a mysterious Maori woman tattooist. Driven by his desire to be tattooed and 'become a man', Grub ignores warnings that Vanessa could be 'Hine Nui Te Po', the Maori sea goddess and mythical 'Eater of Life'. Rebelling against Claw, he is drawn ever deeper into Vanessa's ambiguous world of pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality, until finally the young surfer must face death in order to understand life.
Director
Director, Virginia Heath's Berlin award winning film. Everything is relative... especially the truth!
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Director, Virginia Heath's Berlin award winning film. Everything is relative... especially the truth!
Writer
The gift of a fridge puts the freeze on love.
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The gift of a fridge puts the freeze on love.
Director
South African jazz legends, The Manhattan Brothers, deprived of their music royalties return to newly liberated South Africa to seek justice.
Editor
Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.
Editor
Freda the cleaner takes the lid off the Town Hall in this animated film about the services provided by local authorities, and illustrates what life would be like without them. As Freda's vacuum cleaner transforms itself into a 'hoovercopter' and flies over the city, she explains the structure of the local authority and the relationship between voter, council and central government.
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A woman unravels a small town conspiracy of silence surrounding the murder of a hitchhiker and falls in love with a handsome, brooding Maori guy, she increasingly fears may be the killer.
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A woman unravels a small town conspiracy of silence surrounding the murder of a hitchhiker and falls in love with a handsome, brooding Maori guy, she increasingly fears may be the killer.
