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The films below were shortlisted for Grierson 2009 in
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Storyville: I’m Not Dead Yet
Production Cº: Passion Pictures Ltd
BBC Four
| Director |
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Elizabeth Stopford |
| Producer |
John Battsek |
A unique and personal film about the inheritance of a Gothic home and a family's unspoken past. |
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A1: The Road Musical
Production Cº: Endemol / Cheetah
Channel 4
| Director/Producer |
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Benjamin Till |
| Executive Producers |
Sara Ramsden, Catherine Welton |
A musical about the A1 Road performed by some of the people who live and work along its length from London to Edinburgh. All those featured tell their genuine stories in music and song and everything is linked by a singing lorry driver who drives much of the road several times a week. |
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Dominick Dunne: After the Party
Production Cº: Road Trip Films Pty
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2008
| Director/Producers |
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Kirsty de Garis, Timothy Jolley |
| Executive Producers |
Sue Maslin, Daryl Dellora |
| Writers |
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Kirsty de Garis, Timothy Jolley |
| Series Editor |
Suresh Ayyar |
A behind-the-scenes look at Vanity Fair writer, Dominick Dunne, one of the world’s greatest celebrities of print journalism. |
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Waiting for Women
Production Cº: National Film and Television School
National Film Theatre, BFI
| Director/Producer |
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Estephan Wagner |
In the remote Spanish village of ‘Riofrio’ the women have left years ago. Only men are left without the slightest possibility to find a relationship. Not bearing the disastrous situation any longer, they organise a busload of single women to come from Madrid into their loneliness. Their ideal aim is to fall in love! But having never learned how to deal with women, beside their mothers and some motorway prostitutes, the event goes terribly wrong. |
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Emma and Ben
Production Cº: National Film and Television School
National Film Theatre, BFI
| Director |
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Vanessa Stockley |
| Producer |
Polly Stokes |
Emma Bishop and Ben Marshall are a 28-year old Down’s Syndrome couple who dream of getting married to each other. EMMA AND BEN traces their journey towards making a decision about whether or not to get engaged. It explores the inner lives of young people with Down’s Syndrome and the nature of love. |
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The Last American Freak Show
Production Cº: Freak Show Productions
London International Documentary Festival
| Director |
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Richard Butchins |
| Producers |
Richard Butchins, Tim Sparks |
| Executive Producers |
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Anthony Wall, John Edginton |
Careering across America in a ramshackle old school bus, run on stolen vegetable oil, and piloted by Lowrent the Clown. Samantha X and Dylan have started their own show, staring such self-defined freaks as The Lobster Girl, The Half Woman, Dame Demure, and The Elephant Man. This motley crew of outsiders are resurrecting the dying art of the sideshow, but with attitude. |
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Lifeproof: Carmel
Production Cº: Lambent Productions Ltd
Channel 4
| Director |
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Simon Alveranga |
| Series Producer |
Emma Hindley |
Carmel is 20 and from Bristol. She’s been in care all her life but she has a great bunch of friends. Recently she met Callum and has started to have feelings for him. But Callum already has a girlfriend. Should she tell him? Carmel consults her friends and tries to make a decision, but then something happens that changes everything. Carmel decides that now is the time to tell him …….but what will Callum say? |
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The Seven Ages of Love
Production Cº: Keo Films
Channel 4
| Director |
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Zara Hayes |
| Producer |
Katie Buchanan |
| Writer |
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Luke Wright |
The Seven Ages of Love (UK 2009) is a film that combines documentary and original poetry to paint a funny and moving picture of what love means to seven different couples. The poems are performed by the contributors, none of whom are trained actors of poets, but who collaborated closely with the director and poet in telling their story. s |
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