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Jez Lewis

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Free Party: A Folk HistoryFree Party: A Folk History · 2023
Free Party: A Folk History
★ 10.02023
MovieDocumentaryMusic
The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.
Elephant MotherElephant Mother · 2024
Elephant Mother
★ 10.02024
MovieDocumentary
A Thai conservationist takes on the powerful tourist industry to rescue abused elephants.
GhostsGhosts · 2006
Ghosts
★ 6.52006
MovieDrama
When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that have become the bedrock of our economy. Forced to live with eleven other Chinese people in a two bedroom house, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. Risking their lives for pennies these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night.
Shed Your Tears and Walk AwayShed Your Tears and Walk Away · 2009
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
★ 7.52009
MovieDocumentaryDrama
Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding, the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as principal character Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. This core narrative carves an upward arc through an intimate study of a place often described as paradise, but which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film, a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths about the human condition.

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Shed Your Tears and Walk AwayShed Your Tears and Walk Away · 2009
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
★ 7.52009
MovieDocumentaryDrama
Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding, the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as principal character Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. This core narrative carves an upward arc through an intimate study of a place often described as paradise, but which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film, a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths about the human condition.

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