Directing

Mags Scholes

Mags Scholes has over 25 years film and TV experience in both production and previously sound recording. She has production credits for hundreds of hours of broadcast and theatrical content including for HBO, Discovery, BBC, SBS, and in the UK, Channel 5, MTV and Channel 4 among others. Her recent feature documentary Great Green Wall screened at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, EPed by Oscar Nominat…

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Call MeCall Me · 2007
Call Me
2007
MovieDrama
Terry Taite is an egotistical radio presenter whose programme airs live through the night. Callers ring in to discuss their dilemmas. Terry, obnoxious, arrogant and demanding, belittles their problems. As his fall from grace becomes evident, he begins to question himself: Is this the real Terry, or have his callers created him?
Hating Peter TatchellHating Peter Tatchell · 2021
Hating Peter Tatchell
4.12021
MovieDocumentary
The powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil diso bedience rocked the British establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homosexuality and exposed world tyrants. As social attitudes change and history vindicates Peter's stance on gay rights, his David versus Goliath battles gradually win him status as a national treasure. The film follows Peter as he embarks on his riskiest crusade yet by seeking to disrupt the FIFA World Cup in Moscow to draw attention to the persecution of LGBT+ people in Russia and Chechnya.
The Body BeautifulThe Body Beautiful · 1991
The Body Beautiful
6.31991
MovieDrama
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.

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