Optimistic Productions

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:33:43 +0000

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is a feature film documenting one film director’s quest to discover his roots and re-launch his family’s Vodka empire, this time as a social enterprise.

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The Games

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:32:57 +0000

Film staging a surreal Olympics amid the sites set to become the London 2012 Olympic Park. Commissioned by Urbis for ‘Play: Experience the Adventure of Our Cities’ exhibition. It won the Audience Award at the East End Film Festival 2008 and is now in the BFI National Archives available to view in the Mediateque. Recent outings of the film project include: Moscow Architecture Biennale, BBC Big Screen, Hackney Museum, East End Film Festival Audience Award 2008, Beyond Media Festival, FACT, View Tube, LIFT’s East on Screen, Chisenhale Biennale, RIBA Architecture Week and various academic / regeneration research contexts.

Jesus of New York

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:30:38 +0000

JESUS is reborn as a deeply flawed man struggling to convince the world he is the second coming. When Dr Schwartz comes along looking for a subject on which to test his invisablator, the opportunity to show the gathered press a live miracle proves too much for Jesus to

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The Village Underground

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:29:45 +0000

Auro Foxcroft is a young man with a mission and Optimistic Productions have been following his quest to provide affordable creative work-space in Shoreditch. He has gone about this in an unusual manner. Decommissioned Underground Carriages now look out over the east end of London sitting on their own little island of old railway viaduct. An inspiring example of recycling in action. The film has subsequently been acquired by Current TV.

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Subverting the City; Subversive Architects (Channel 4, 2005)

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A group of architects ‘improve’ a derelict signal box in East London

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Subverting the City; The Space Hijackers (Channel 4, 2005)

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:28:25 +0000

A group of anarchic visionaries challenge the city boys to a cricket match at closing time on a Friday night!

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Subverting the City; Climbing Club (Channel 4, 2005)

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:27:23 +0000

Led by Lottie Child, this is a rag tag group of urban climbers, meeting once
a month to help themselves to the buildings, fences and even trees of the
City of London.

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Subverting the City; A Misguide to Milton Keynes (Channel 4, 2005)

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:26:18 +0000

Site Specific theatre morphs into urban adventure as Wrights and Sites jump
blindfold into the back of a taxi in the middle of the night at Milton
Keynes and ask to be driven to ‘the edge of the city’.

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Merchant Square

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:40:36 +0000

This is a highly complex and ambitious film for developers European Land who are transforming the Paddington Basin with a world class development, including buildings from top architects Richard Rodgers and Terry Farrell.

The film uses cutting edge CGI techniques, it was shot on high definition at Black Island studios and on location in and around Paddington (including the station) and in a helicopter over London.

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In the Guardian

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:05:36 +0000

We have been in the press a bit of late with the Vodka Empire. You really have to see Dan trying to convince the world that he is Steve McQueen on the front of the Guardian’s Family section to believe … Continue reading →