Disney - Remembering
What happens to ideas when you forget them? Where do they go?Dusty Peak and Brie Larson take us on an augmented reality adventure through the World of Imagination and help us all reconnect to our inner child. Remembering can be viewed with or without the AR technology and is now streaming on Disney+ in the US.
Director: Elijah Allan-Blitz
Starring: Brie Larson and Dusty Peak
Editor: Joan Gill Amorim
Runtime: 8 mins
Bridge - BBC
'BRIDGE' is a beautiful and touching short film dealing with loneliness, heartbreak and motherhood. Skilfully directed by Tara Aghdashloo, the film highlights some invisible, but incredibly important questions women face in their lives.
Commissioned by BBC Films, with Kusini Productions, the film is an adaptation of Gemma Barnett’s award-winning poem inspired by her time working as a GP surgery receptionist during the pandemic.
Director: Tara Aghdashloo
Starring: Gemma Barnett & Bianca Beckles-Rose
Editor: Joan Gill Amorim
Runtime: 15 mins
Uprooted - The Journey Of Jazz Dance
The film follows the lineage of Jazz dance and the deep communication it has carried into today’s society, as well its onward journey into the future.
Director: Khadifa Wong
Editor: Joan Gill Amorim
Runtime: 84 mins
Susan Feniger. FORKED
Emmy Award winning Liz Lachman follows her longtime celebrity chef partner, Susan Feniger, in her quest to bring global street food under one roof in the form of her first solo restaurant, STREET.This vérité feature documentary is a story about starting over and reinvention, but it’s also a story about failure - not IF one fails but HOW.
Runtime: 90 mins
Matilda Harding-Kemp, small selkie
small selkie follows Skye, a young girl dealing with loss but equipped with a vivid imagination as she ventures to save the world. One day while walking the local beach with her father, she stumbles upon a selkie (mermaid), struggling to breath, her tail wrapped in trash that has washed up on the shore with her. Skye suddenly sees the enormity of the problem, one of which she is a part of, and vows to positively impact the world, starting now.
Runtime: 15 mins
The World of Simone Rocha
An intimate look at the legendary fashion designer Simone Rocha, her work process and what influences her.
Director: Stella Scott
Editor: Joan Gill Amorim
Runtime: 9 mins
Hymn of Hate
In Matt Kennard’s directorial debut, we are transported back to No Man’s Land at the height of the First World War. The film takes it's title from the Ernst Lissauer poem of the same name, a nationalistic and patriotic hymn,"We have all but a single hate,We love as one, we hate as one."This poignant and never more relevant film was made to coincide with the centenary of the end of the Great War.
Director: Matt Kennard
Editor: Joan Gill Amorim
Runtime: 12 mins
Whirlpool
Based on the true story of Helen Keller’s fight for civil rights in her adult life despite significant prejudice. Helen’s views and actions were considered radical by the mainstream culture of early 20th Century America. As a result, she was challenged and held under surveillance by the government, patronised by the press, and managed by her family and those closest to her.
Director: Kate Baxter & Elizabeth Dixon
Editor: Joan Gill Amorim
Runtime: 17 mins
Caritas
Marking five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War, director Charlie Crane teamed with Caritas International to capture the poignant yet beautiful stories of individuals fleeing the violence and their homes.
Director: Charlie Crane
Editor: Joan Gill Amorim