Alex Ashcroft

His wife Sarah still believes in the American Dream, but for unemployed Kurt the sun-kissed rural Bible Belt is tinged with grey. The fact the whole town knows about their precarious situation doesn’t help his sense of self-worth much. All that well-meaning pity pushes Kurt over the edge. He flees, seeking a means to support his family.

This humorous and melancholic portrait of a male voice choir in North East Wales begins with the filmmaker’s father, Ed, a 90-year-old widower, selling the family home and making early arrangements for his own funeral. Weekly practice is his last remaining solace, but with an average age of 74, his beloved choir is facing a crisis of its own. They must act fast or face extinction, and the hunt begins to find “brown haired men” in their 40s and 50s to keep the choir going. As their search intensifies, the group grows closer. Ed finds new meaning in his life, while Merf deals with his own bad news by focusing on the choir’s revival, and Gwyn laughs in the face of a prostate cancer diagnosis, walking the wing of a plane to raise money for charity. Eventually, they travel to Northern Ireland to perform for the first time in two decades.

Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take.

Online editing for the project Yn Y Golau. Yn Y Golau (‘In the Light’ in English) is based on research initiated by photonics scientist Ray Davies and Vertical Dance pioneer Kate Lawrence. It has been made possible by the curious work of many collaborators and generous support from: Arts Council Wales, Pontio, Clwstwr, Bangor University, UCAN, Disability Arts Cymru, North Wales Society for the Blind.

Honeycomb Lodge is a collection of stories through the use of flashbacks that lead victims of domestic violence to one common place, the Safe House. The film depicts an insight into the impact that domestic violence can have on adults and children alike.

A story of survival inside a British Prison.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.

The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film - Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Tilda Swinton, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott, Anna Jones. The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 10 film chapters of The New Ten Commandments 1. The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Director, David Graham Scott 2. The Right not to be enslaved - Director, Nick Higgins 3. The Right to a fair trial - Director, Sana Bilgrami 4. The Right to freedom of expression - Director, Doug Aubrey 5. The Right to life - Director, Kenny Glenaan 6. The Right to liberty - Directors, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins 7. The Right not to be tortured - Director, Douglas Gordon 8. The Right to asylum - Director, Anna Jones 9. The Right to privacy - Director, Alice Nelson 10. The Right to freedom of thought - Directors, Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton.

1 Way Up in 3D is the story of the Peckham BMX Club and two teens on the road to the BMX World Championships. They hope to escape one of the toughest gang neighborhoods in London with the only thing they have - a bike. Defying all odds, they race to the top of the BMX ranks and off the streets. The film challenges stereotypes of youth born into poverty and proves it's not about where you're from but where you're heading that defines one's character.