Tortured Artist

On Our Doorstep delves deep into an aspect of the refugee crisis that rarely reached the press. With NGOs being blocked by red tape and the absence of any positive action by French or British authorities, the film is a behind-the-scenes look at the unprecedented grassroots movement that rose to aid the refugees in Calais, and the community that sprang up there, before it was forcefully demolished. This is the story of what happens when young and inexperienced citizens are forced to devise systems and structures to support 10,000 refugees; and are left unguided to face the moral and emotional conflicts, blurred lines and frequent grey areas of giving aid to vulnerable people. People who do not want to be there. It questions whether the aims of the volunteers were met, and whether these aims ultimately served the refugees' needs.

After a day of boozing and cruising, narrowboat novice (Gabe) and his craggy, veteran ‘engine whisperer’ (Fred) regale Gabe’s uptight school friend (Harry) with a litany of toilet horror stories that draw a stark line between the haves and the have nots on the London canals. Faecal Beast is a scatological comedy that gleefully punctures landlubbers’ romantic notions of boat life and pays loving homage to Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’.

When Charlotte gets lost in the woods, she meets Oogroo, a foul-mouthed goblin convinced Charlotte’s hiding something special. But the creature’s not the only one with secrets. This damsel in distress? Not so distressed after all.

A work call takes a dark turn when one of the team accidentally leaves their camera on.

Aimless slacker Tom is visited by a strange man demanding he pay for his “TV license.” As the surreal bureaucracy tightens around him, Tom realises he's about to lose everything.

A troubled father/son relationship is tested when an ex-merchant Navy engineer falls terminally ill and his eldest son returns home to take on his unfinished boat-building project. William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers is an intimate and moving account of a brilliant man coming to terms with terminal illness, a family coping with imminent death and a son struggling with the psychological and emotional burden of growing up in a very large shadow.