Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)
Adam
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018
Director: Lorna Tucker
Producers: Eleanor Emptage, John Battsek, Nicole Stott
Passion Pictures
Feature documentary
Reviews

Kate Moss delivers a killer anecdote but the subject of this documentary is reluctant to reveal much about her glory years
Towards the end of this documentary, Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corré describes her as Britain’s last genuine punk. There is truth in that. Punk may have effectively vanished in music, but it lives on in Westwood’s clothes, style and the poses she strikes publicly. In this film, she is reluctant to talk about punk rock or her personal life, perhaps aware of the controversy generated by her ghosted 2016 autobiography, in which she laid into various figures and made sweeping and rather startling statements – such as claiming that her first husband, airline pilot Derek Westwood, managed the Who in the early 60s.This film takes us through her early life: when she wafts into the orbit of Malcolm McLaren, who made their fashion store Sex a punk headquarters of sorts. Their acrimonious split left Westwood to battle on alone, to raise two children and to survive the worlds of fashion and business – which she did, with no little courage, and mostly without the corporate support which was to be lavished on more mainstream designers such as Stella McCartney.
The Guardian
Gypsy’s Revenge (2018)
Adam
Feature documentary
Director: Jesse Vile
Producers: Simon Chinn, Suzanne Lavery
Lightbox
Fighting For A City (2018)
Adam
Documentary Series
Director: Jacob Proud and Greg Hardes
Producer: Nick Ryle
Universal
Food Exposed (2017)
Adam
TV Series
Director: Will West
Producers: Suzanne Lavery, Sam Collyns
Lightbox
The Detectives – Murder on the Streets (2017)
Adam
WINNER OF THE RTS AWARD FOR BEST EDITING IN A DOCUMENTARY
Director: Daniel Vernon
Producer: Colin Barr
BBC
Minnow Films
Reviews

The Detectives: Murder on the Streets review – the detective documentary as Manc noir
A fascinating look into the realities of a murder investigation. Plus, from Nollywood pastiche to Black History UK garage style, new sketch show Famalam
My Scientology Movie (2015)
My Scientology Movie (2015)
Adam
Official Selection London Film Festival 2015
Director: John Dower
Producers: Simon Chinn, Joe Oppenheimer, Charlotte Moore
BBC Films, Red Box Films
Best Film, NME Awards 2016
Reviews

All sorts of weird stuff starts happening as Theroux reiterates the sheer nastiness of the organisation in his provocative documentary
The Church of Scientology is a deeply strange organisation and, appropriately enough, Louis Theroux has made a strange film about it. It works as a companion piece to another documentary, the one that I think is the definitive takedown: Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, from 2015. It’s an interesting, if flawed piece of work; Theroux’s opaque manner masks an uncertainty as to exactly what he wants to say, and he finally seems to turn on his own chief witness.Theroux’s Scientology movie is undoubtedly a smart piece of what could be called improv-ocation. He shows up in LA, advertising his intention to film a series of scripted and unscripted scenes recreating key moments from the life of the Scientologists’ sinister chief, David Miscavige. (Theroux may here have been inspired by Josh Oppenheimer’s modern-classic documentary about the Indonesian tyranny, The Act of Killing.) He will audition actors, film the audition process, and use as his adviser a famous apostate and whistleblower, former Scientologist enforcer Marty Rathbun – a man now hated in the church for his betrayal.
The Guardian
Being AP (2015)
Adam
Official Selection Toronto Film Festival
Director: Anthony Wonke
Producers: Nick Ryle, John Woolcombe
BBC Films, Irish Film Board
Feature documentary
Reviews
