Nick Gifford

Facing extreme challenges, including a visit from the grim reaper himself, lack of sleep, and a logistical nightmare, a determined crew provided the talented cast with an awesome template to display their prowess as Actors and human beings.

Story of a naive and simple country boy, exposed to the conflicts of war within his local community, and his search for peace.

Mr. Pye is a missionary whose mission to spread God's love on the tiny English Channel island of Sark faces supernatural setbacks in this comic fantasy from the author of Gormenghast.

A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party from all over England. At the party the family members talk about hope and dreams for their children. The past and present lives of various relatives are compared with each other, while fragments from radio-programmes from the fourties and the fifties draw an emotional and historical line. Set against this archive material are fierce images of modern day family life in urban England in the year 1993. This makes the film a collage of dreams, memories and images of present-day life.

A portrait of Mrs Khadeeja Begum, a widowed Pakistani mother of two in 1970s Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

A portrait of Mrs Khadeeja Begum, a widowed Pakistani mother of two in 1970s Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

The poise and dignity of the Ismael family from Eritrea have haunted film-maker Nick Gifford since he filmed their arrival at Wadsharifi refugee camp in the Sudan three years ago. "Seeing them by chance, sick and bemused after fleeing for six nights from the war and drought in neighbouring Eritrea," he recalls, "I wondered what camp life would do to a man and his family." His film follows this refugee family from their arrival in camp to their return to Eritrea three years later.