Nick Gifford

Disregard the Vampire: A Mike Messier Documentary

Jose Guns Alves, Scott Levy

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.

Bitter Thorns

Nick Gifford

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.

Oh for the Wings of a Dove

Nick Gifford

Khadeeja Begum

A portrait of Mrs Khadeeja Begum, a widowed Pakistani mother of two in 1970s Birmingham, featuring an ignorant, casually racist voiceover by the condescending (white) filmmaker.