Director: Laura McGann
Producer: John Battsek, Jamie D’Alton, Bart Leyton, Sarah Thomson
Distribution: Netflix
Premier: Sundance
Champion and expert safety diver seemed destined for one another despite different paths they took to meet at pinnacle of the free-diving world. The thrilling rewards and inescapable risks of chasing dreams through the depths of the ocean.
Director: Tim Wardle
Producer: Becky Read
Distribution: Neon
Technical: 96 minutes, Colour 1.85 : 1 Arri with Agenieux Optimo and Cooke Lenses
Premiere: Sundance
Awards: Winner at Sundance Film Festival, Winner at Chicago Film Festival, BAFTA Nominee, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Director (Short listed for Oscar short list 2019)
New York, 1980. Three complete strangers — Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland, and David Kellman — make the astounding discovery that they are identical triplets. Separated at birth, adopted, and raised by three different families, the 19-year-olds are reunited by chance. Their story sets the tabloids on fire, and the triplets suddenly become famous around the world. The brothers forge a relationship and become fast friends. They move in together in a swinging bachelor pad and open a restaurant that skyrockets to success. The toast of Manhattan, the triplets are living the high life. But their fairy tale reunion sets off a chain of events that ultimately unearths an extraordinary and sinister secret that could answer controversial questions at the heart of human behaviour.
Director: David Fairhead
Producer: Gareth Dodds
Cast: Harrison Ford, Neil Armstrong
Distribution: Gravitas Ventures 2019
Technical: 1hr 40 min, Color, 2.35 : 1, Arri Mini, Cooke Anamorphic
A portrait of Neil Armstrong, from his childhood in Ohio to his first step on the moon. With a unique insight into his life, the film captures significant moments in his life in a moving and deeply human way.
Director: James Erskine
Producer: Barry Clark-Ewers
Distribution: Altitude Films
Technical: 1hr 30, 2.35 : 1, Colour, Arri LF / Kodak film
Premiere: Telluride
Billie Holiday, one of the greatest voices of all time, was always controversial - a proud black woman who preferred white audiences, an exploited artist and a violent drug addict, a loyal friend and a vindictive lover, a blues singer who didn’t sing the blues, and when she sang the seminal protest song Strange Fruit, an enemy of the state.Her enigmatic accounts of her own life were a mix of half truths and free-form improvisations.Anchored around these never-before-heard interviews, BILLIE will play out like a film noir. Melding archive, drama, animation and still images, BILLIE will capture the complexity of a legend through the eyes of the woman whose obsession would lead to her own mysterious, untimely death.
Directed by Mary McCartney
Produced by Ventureland / Disney Plus
Premiere: 2022 Telluride Film Festival
Technical: 1hr 26 min Colour, 2.40:1, Arri LF and Cooke FF Anamorphics
If These Walls Could Sing is a 2022 British documentary film directed by Mary McCartney, in her feature documentary debut, about the history of Abbey Road Studios in London and the experiences and memories of the musicians who have played there
Directed by Mark Craig
Produced by Gareth Dodds
Distribution: Gravitas Ventures
1hr 35 min, 1.85.1, Color
Premiere: S.X.S.W
When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped on the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. Only now, over forty years later, is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss. Cernan’s burning ambition carried him from a quiet Chicago suburb to the spectacular and hazardous environment of space, and ultimately, to the moon. Five years in the making, The Last Man on the Moon unveils a wealth of rare archive, and takes Cernan back to the launch pads of Cape Kennedy, to Arlington National Cemetery and to his Texas ranch, where he finds respite from a past that refuses to let him go. Sharing home movies, scrapbooks and intimate moments with his closest friends and family, he brings his spine-tingling experiences to the big screen more vividly than any moonwalker has done before.
Director: Nicolas Brown
Producer: Dave Allan / David Guy Elisco, John Battsek, Passion Pictures / Tangled Bank Media
Cast: Ashlyn Jade Lopez, Greg Kriek, Jonathan Newport, Samantha Nugent
Distribution: Abramorama
Premier: Tribeca Film Festival
Technical: 84 minutes, Colour, 2.35: 1, Arri, Cooke S4 & Canon K35mm lenses
Awards: 19 Awards.
They saw the planet in a different way. And what they found just may save it. How five passionate biologists are changing the entire world.
Discover something very unexpected in nature. Hope. What it teaches us just might save the planet. Some of our brightest minds are proving that the future is brighter than we think.
Follow it and you go straight to hope. They followed their passion.
Now it’s time to follow their rule.
Director: Matt Dyas
Producer: Anthony Geffen
Distribution: National Geographic Entertainment / IMAX
Technical: 40 minutes, Colour IMAX / GIANT Screen 3D
Premiere: IMAX BFI
For thousands of years, humans have believed that there were once flying monsters. They became mythologized, with stories about them shared around the world. But could they have really existed? 220 million years ago dinosaurs were on their rise to dominating Earth. But another group of reptiles was set to make an extraordinary leap: pterosaurs were about to take control of the skies. These creatures were the first flying vertebrates, which grew to have a 40ft wingspan, the size of a jet. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastic that any fiction.
Release date: 6th May 2011
Director: Jared. P. Scott
Producer: Fernando Meirelles, Sarah MacDonald, Charly Feldman
Distribution: Seville International
Technical: 90 minutes, Colour: 2.40:1, Arri with Angenieux and Cooke lenses
Premiere: Venice 2019
A Buena Vista Social Club meets Years of Living Dangerously, renowned Malian singer Inna Modja takes us on a music-driven journey of hope, hardship, and perseverance across Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall. Part musical odyssey and cultural road-trip, part desertification and climate justice exploration, Inna sets out on a mission to assemble Africa’s most thrilling musicians and record a once-in-a-lifetime album that captures the spirit of the Wall – the budding 8,000km “belt of green” stretching from Senegal to Djibouti – providing food, jobs, and a future for millions of people
The Phantom
Director: Patrick Forbes
Producer: Mark Bentley, Orlando von Einseidel, Oxford Film & Television & Grain Media
Distribution: 30WEST, Premiere - Tribeca Film Festival 2021, NETFLIX
Technical: 94 minutes, 4K Arri, Canon k35mm and Angenieux Optimo lenses
Who killed Wanda Lopez? The young store clerk was brutally hacked to death as she worked at a gas station in Corpus Christi TX one cold November night in 1983.
Six years later, 27 year old Carlos DeLuna was executed for her murder. All along he protested his innocence, refusing to plead guilty. DeLuna said another 'Carlos' did it. At trial the prosecution derided his claim, saying the other Carlos was "A Phantom".
DeLuna was right. The real killer was Carlos Hernandez, a psychopathic drifter with a string of violent assaults on women to his name – a man all too well known to the police and the D.A.
This film conclusively proves that the US judicial system killed an innocent man, uncovering crucial evidence that demonstrates Carlos DeLuna’s innocence, beyond any reasonable doubt.
THE PHANTOM is a searching, enraging examination of one of the darkest episodes in the history of American justice. It shows how a young man from a poor Hispanic background had no chance, faced with a judicial system bent on vengeance. Supreme Court Justices have already said this case calls the death penalty into question. THE PHANTOM proves them right.
