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In a collaboration with Stylus Films and Footagevault, Dust is the fictional story of the Apollo 18 mission, written by Jon Spira and directed by Ben Lavington Martin. This short film, premiering at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival, intercuts archive film with a powerful script delivered by actor Bill Hope, and a stirring original musical score by Mark Rutherford to explore philosophical themes about life and love through the predicament of an astronaut marooned on the Moon as he looks back at Earth. |
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In collaboration with Dox Productions, Wide-Eyed Entertainment and Red Vision VFX, Yarris (w/t) is the story of a man who spent 23 years on Death Row for a murder he did not commit. Drawing on over 20 hours of compelling interviews shot with Nick in 2007 and combining these with a series of gripping "graphic-novel" style CG-animations which often unfold around Nick on screen, we have brought together a unique consortium of film making talent for this project; to create a feature length documentary film for theatrical release sometime in 2011. Following an escape from prison early on during his sentence Nick went on the run and was for a time on the FBI's most wanted list. Believing that DNA testing would exonerate him for the original murder, Nick eventually turned himself in. But it would be another 18 years of living hell inside before a judge allowed the tests to go ahead. As a method of escaping inside his head Nick taught himself to read and write, consuming over 9,000 dime-store novels - and inadvertently turning himself into an extraordinary story teller in his own right. Working closely with Nick, we have vividly created the stories which have replayed in his mind so many times during his incarceration. |
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NASA commissioned director Theo Kamecke to make a feature documentaryfilm only six weeks before Apollo 11’s flight to the Moon in July 1969. Instead of a simple documentary film, what Theo created was a philosophical and poetic record of Man’s first attempt to walk on another world. Working closely with Theo, The Attic Room has re-mastered his documentary classic for future generations to enjoy. Combining the only existing full-length 35mm print with recently restored NASA flight film shot by the astronauts themselves, we have created a vibrant new High Definition digital master of the movie Moonwalk One. Together with a director’s commentary, a host of extra features and a new 5.1 sound track, this is indeed the ultimate “time capsule”, recording the last year of the 1960s and the historic flight of Apollo 11. |
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A serialised five part drama for Bebo, telling the story of Jeffery J - a school football
captain who needs some help from medical imaging to keep him at the top of his game. The five episodes follow his journey
through diagnosis of a heart condition to his treatment using X-ray cameras and real time MRI equipment. 'Jump-off'
interviews with the medical professionals he meets along the way - hosted here allow viewers to explore career opportunities in the field of
medical imaging. The drama was commissioned by University College London and funded by a grant from the EPSRC. (A co-production with GovEd Communications) |
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Combining intimate interviews with rare NASA archive footage re-mastered from film to HD tape by
our sister company Footagevault, this REMI award winning six part documentary series for the Discovery Science Channel tells the remarkable stories
of the 400,000 engineers who devoted their lives to the Apollo programme. Each episode recalls the stories of
engineering failure and ultimate triumph which played out during the creation of everything from the mighty Saturn V
rocket to the individual Apollo space craft, the guidance computer the space suits and the lunar rover. These six films
tell the definitive engineering story of mankind's greatest adventure. Watch it here on line and buy it here. (Collaboration with DOX Productions) |
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The attic room acted as a series consultant for this landmark six part series for
the Discovery Channel, made by
Dangerous Films and broadcast to celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary in mid 2008. Telling the
comprehensive history of America's first fifty years of human spaceflight, the series reflects on the
highs and lows of the missions which carried the first US Citizens beyond the atmosphere, into Earth orbit and
all the way to the Moon. The final episodes cover the history of the Space Shuttle programme and the establishment
of a permanent outpost in space onboard the remarkable International Space Station. |
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Multi-award winning feature documentary about the men who flew to the Moon between 1968 and
1972. In the Shadow of the Moon
has been hailed as the finest documentary ever made about the Apollo story. The film combines
revealing astronaut interviews with rare NASA archive film sourced and re-mastered by our sister company
Footagevault.
It won the world cinema audience award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and went on general release in the US
and UK during the autumn of that year. It was released on DVD the following spring and received its UK TV network
premier on Channel 4 in June of 2008. (Collaboration with DOX Productions) |
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The attic room acted as story consultants for the original production phase of Darlow Smithson's landmark series for
the Discovery Channel. This three part
series sets out to explore the physics of the Universe, from the perspective of world renown physicist Stephen Hawking's mind. (Darlow Smithson Productions) |
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A short film about this Irish born scientist and public intellectual,
best known for pioneering X-ray crystallography and his World Peace Council activities.
Commissioned by the British Association for The Advancement of Science. (A co-production with GovEd Communications) |
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The attic room acted as science advisor to this BBC FOUR remake
of the classic 1960s science fiction classic by the noted cosmologist Fred Hoyle. When a group of
scientists receive a message from outer space telling them to build a computer, they follow the orders
with disastrous results. |
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An ongoing project to digitally archive a family's past - going back as
far as possible in all media available from still photographs to moving images and sound. This project is ongoing, as new material surfaces. For more information about this service for your own family please write to us at info@theatticroom.com. |
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