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The Book of Colours is a participant-observation documentary that explores the impact of an evanglisation course for children that uses The Book Without Words to teach children the story of Jesus and the path of salvation; Yellow, Black, Red, White and Green; the five colours of the book without words. The children recount the story that they have learnt and the filmmaker invites her 10 year old daughter to join her to interview the children and ask them questions about their relationships with colours, including questions related to the philosophy of colour, a subset of the philosphy of perception, particularly exploring the idea of Qualia – the subjective feeling that you have on the inside when you see a colour. The children also explore what it means to evangelise another child. The film provides an insight into one of the ways that evangelsim is being propagated and opens out into a reflection on the philiosphical insights of children and their capacity to deeply understand the world and each other. The involvement of the filmmaker´s own daughter provides a bridge, whilst also reflects on the ethical challenges of making documentaries involving children, especially where world views are being questioned.

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After an unexpected encounter with the British consul in Recife, who revealed that one of his main responsibilities was to repatriate the bodies of elderly people who live across the Atlantic on cruise ships, I began investigating this surprising phenomenon. I discover that living on a cruise ship costs less than a nursing home and that this new way of life is becoming popular among some middle-class seniors. When I came across an advertisement for the inaugural voyage of the world's first residential cruise ship, focusing on "ordinary people," not the super-rich, I decided to spend some time on board, interviewing the elderly residents. The Pioneers is an observational-participatory film that takes as its starting point the stories of people who, at the end of their lives, decide to trade everything they've accumulated for a 3m2 cabin on the high seas. From an opera singer who sang with Palácios Domingos, to a former CIA agent with the onset of Alzheimer's, to a Nobel Prize winner; to an elderly truck driving couple who transported dangerous cargo between states in the US until well into their 70s. The accumulated experiences of the elderly people on board are extraordinary, fascinating, and fantastical, intertwined with a common desire to rid themselves of all worldly goods, to live in the present, and continue adventuring around the world. As we hear these extraordinary life stories, we will accompany how this group of people adapt to life on board, plotting daily adventures and overcoming the conflicts of daily life. Until one day, a story about the onboard morgue triggers an existential crisis among some of the passengers.

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A handpicked group of participants agree to participate in a filmed workshop during a dream conference,  providing a never seen before insight into the therapeutic & transformational power of connecting our waking and non-waking worlds. This observational documentary restricts our experience to the four walls of the workshop rooms and the knowledge and information and reactions shared within. Only escaping at the end to film a dream ball, where the participants dress up and enbody their favourtie dream characters, a traditional end to the confeerence. The film reveals the potential of dream analysis for individual and collective reflection and the relationship with the unconsicouss world in a cross-cultural environment that explores range of approaches and understandings of the dream world.