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The films below were shortlisted for Grierson 2009 in
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Burma VJ
Production Cº: Magic Hour Films
Human Rights Watch Int. Film Festival
| Director |
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Anders Ostergaard |
| Producer |
Lisa-Lense Moller |
| Writers |
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Anders Ostergard, Jan Krogsgaard |
Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to Burma’s video journalists who insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Armed with small handycams they make their undercover reportages, smuggle the material out of the country, have it broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered as free usage for international media. |
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The Age of Stupid
Production Cº: One Off Productions Ltd
General theatrical release
| Director |
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Franny Armstrong |
| Producer |
Lizzie Gillet |
| Executive Producer |
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John Battsek |
| Writerss |
Mark Lynas, Franny Armstrong, Emily James |
'The Age Of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer of the Oscar- winning 'One Day In September'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar- nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2007 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance? |
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Man on Wire
Production Cº: Wall To Wall in association with Red Box Films
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008
| Director |
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James Marsh |
| Producer |
Simon Chinn |
| Executive Producer |
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Jonathan Hewes |
Man on Wire is the extraordinary re-telling of Philippe Petit’s daring and illegal scheme to walk a high wire between New York’s Twin Towers in 1974. It tells the story of how Petit and his accomplices managed to rig a wire between the buildings which Petit then danced on, with no safetynet. Petit’s walk became known as “the artistic crime of the twentieth century. |
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Thriller in Manila
Production Cº: Darlow Smithson Productions
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| Director/Producer |
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John Dower |
| Executive Producer |
Elinor Day |
| Writer |
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John Dower |
Joe Frazier takes British filmmaker, John Dower, back to the most hyped boxing match in history. Frazier, now 63, takes British filmmaker, John Dower, back 33 years to the most hyped boxing match in history, and beyond. Frazier has never forgiven Ali for the racial taunting leading up to the fight in which he called Frazier 'gorilla' and 'uncle Tom' - the worst possible insult for a fellow black man. |
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Of Time and the City
Production Cº: Hurricane Films
Liverpool
| Director |
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Terence Davies |
| Producers |
Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter |
| Executive Producers |
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Chris Moll, Lisa Marie Russo |
| Writer |
Terence Davies |
Specially commissioned to celebrate the city’s year as European Capital of Culture, Of Time and the City is both a love song and a eulogy to the director Terence Davies’ birthplace of Liverpool. Combining archive footage of the city with a wonderfully rich music soundtrack and with voice-over narration by Davies himself, it is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as the skyline changes and time takes its toll. |
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Rough Aunties
Production Cº: Rise Films
Belfast Film Festival
| Director |
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Kim Longinotto |
True Stories: Rough Aunties, follows a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa. |
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Shooting Robert King (formerly Blood Trail)
Production Cº: Blood Trail Film Ltd
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2008
| Director |
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Richard Parry |
| Producers |
Richard Parry, Vaughan Smith |
The innocent, naive, kind, clumsy - none of these live long in war. Which makes Robert King's survival all the more remarkable. Listen carefully to the story of this dirty-faced angel from Tennessee. Then have him shot at dawn. The world is too ugly to allow such honesty to live... (Anthony Loyd) |
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sleep furiously
Production Cº: Van Film Ltd/Bard Entertainments Ltd
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008
| Director |
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Gideon Koppel |
| Producer |
Margaret Matheson |
Sleep furiously is set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. The film maker leads us on a poetic journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire. |
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Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Production Cº: Number 9 Films
London Film Festival 2008
| Director |
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Jamie J Johnson |
| Producers |
Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley |
| Writer |
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Jamie J Johnson |
‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit’ is the warmly comic story of childhood, innocence, teen-dreams and singing off-key.
Marrying the affectionate indie humour of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ with the charm and emotion of ‘Stand by Me’,
‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit’ follows the journey of four loveable underdogs to the world’s largest children’s songwriting
contest; The Junior Eurovision, including all the foibles of growing up along the way. |
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