Documentary

Fourteen-year-old Mohammed is Gaza's best swimmer. He is on a mission to be his nation’s first Olympic swimming champion and now he has the opportunity of a lifetime - to go to Germany and train in an Olympic-sized pool with an elite team. It’s the first time he has been to Europe and just as he gets close to the qualifying time he needs, the Covid pandemic hits the world.

directed by Elena Andreicheva, an Oscar and BAFTA winning director and producer.

The film has been broadcasted on BBC on the 25th of July and is now on BBC iPlayer.

Milos Forman, Agnieszka Holland, Márta Mészáros, Andrzej Wajda, Kalory Makk, Jiri Menzel, Daniel Olbrychski, Juraj Jakubisko and many many more gave unique interviews about their way of making films during communist regime; dealing with communist party rule, Russian dictate, political turmoils and censorship.

Feature documentary directed, filmed and produced by Zuzka Markova was a labour of love and passion for Eastern European Cinema.
Made with help of the Visegrad Fund the film is important to learn about history and cinema, but also to remind ourself how important democracy and freedom are.

The documentary examines an often overlooked crisis: American women today are dying during childbirth at higher rates than in 1987, and African American women are up to four times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts. The program premieres during a special night of programming to mark the United Nations’ International Women’s Day.

directed, produced and filmed by Lyttanya Shannon, producers Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn, executive producer Suzanne Lavery editors Jane Hodge and Pawel Stec
featuring Nelufar Hedayat
Made at LIGHTBOX
Aired on Fusion TV, Hulu and BBC

Esta Vida (This Life) is a vivid portrait of a group of young girls, who in their early and mid-teens, have already endured a lifetime of loss, rejection and abuse. Stuck in a rural Brazilian town where they’ve tasted the bitterness of sexual exploitation, their only beacon of hope is Meninadança. It’s a safe haven and social project where they can dance, be free and feel empowered. It is run by Rita, a child advocate who fights the system, to rescue the girls from a life on the streets, while the girls themselves fight for survival with courage and optimism.

director, camera, producer Lyttanya Shannon, editor Pawel Stec, co-producer Rienkje Attoh, location sound recordist Juan Montoto Ugarte, composer Terence Dunn, sound designer Ben Hensor
The National Film and Television School 2015

Nominated for the London Film Academy Student Doc Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015
Nominated for One World Media Award 2015 in Student Category
Nominated for Postgraduate Factual and Craft Skills - Editing at Royal Television Society Student Television Awards 2016

50 Years and a Few Puss Kittens Wiser

A mixed-media documentary about couples who have been married more than 50 years set to the sounds of King Creosote vs Tunng. Part of the BBC New Music Shorts competition run by BBC Electric Proms, BBC New Talent and BBC Film Network, 2007

writer and director Anastasia Kirillova, director of photography Neus Olle, editor Pawel Stec, produced by BBC and Warpfilms, motion graphics by Foreign Office Design, London, music by King Creosote - Twin Tub Twin