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Taking The Reins (2023)

AUDIO POST PRODUCTION

Part one introduces Joe Tizzard, son of legendary trainer Colin Tizzard, who has inherited his father's passion for the sport and the family business. Viewers will get an intimate look into Joe's world, as he takes over the reins of Venn Farm and sets out to make his mark. With a reputation to maintain, Joe faces a host of challenges as he navigates the complexities of training horses, managing staff, and working with owners. But with a string of promising horses under his care and the excitement of the upcoming Coral Gold Cup at Newbury on the horizon, Joe is more than ready to rise to the challenge and cement his place as one of the sport's rising stars.

Premiered online for COral Racing & Racing Post, Due to air on SKY SPORTS RACING

EXTREME BIKE LIFE (2022)

AUDIO POST PRODUCTION

Jake 100 has built an impressive reputation and amassed a sizeable following through his status as one of the world’s best wheelie racers and tricksters. His Bike Life Circus has helped create a brand-new urban sport, its unofficial races taking place on go kart tracks, cycle parks and around industrial estates. Central to this has been the rapid growth of the ‘knives down, bikes’ up’ movement, with young riders in London amassing to take a stand against knife crime. Director Martin Read captures the energy of these events, putting audiences at the heart of the action and delivering a visceral thrill-ride of a film.
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2022 - Journeys - World premiere

REBEL DYKES (2021)

AUDIO POST PRODUCTION

Rebel Dykes arrives in all its ass-kicking, leather-wearing glory. The film follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and went on to become artists, performers, musicians and activists in London.

A heady mash-up of animation, archive footage and interviews tells the story of a radical scene: squatters, BDSM nightclubs, anti-Thatcher rallies, protests demanding action around AIDS and the fierce ties of chosen family. This is an extraordinarily privileged glimpse into a bygone world by those who not only lived out their politics with heartfelt conviction but lived to tell the tale.'

JAY BERNARD, Programmer, BFI Flare

“a rousing documentation of anarchic lesbian power set against the backdrop of Eighties England'

- EVENING STANDARD

“a hugely entertaining and unique documentary”

- THE FILM MAGAZINE

THE FALL (2021)

COMPOSER AND AUDIO POST PRODUCTION

A short powerful film directed by Nathan Horrocks (Equine Productions) and Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, Downton Abbey).

Announced on World Suicide Prevention Day this film aims to highlight the issue of suicide in Horseracing. The film, which is expected to be released in late 2021, centres around a jockey having to deal with the suffocating aftermath of a high-profile fall at a final fence in an important trial race.

The Sir Peter O’Sullevan Charitable Trust is the film’s title sponsor with other financial backing coming from the Professional Jockeys’ Association and the mental health charity, Even Keel Foundation.

ENABLE: QUEEN OF RACING (2020)

COMPOSER

With an immeasurable will to win, and a race record that is unrivalled, Enable is the horse of a lifetime. No other horse in European racing history has ever achieved what she has, and perhaps never will. This is the story of her monumental racing career, spanning the 5 years from her arrival onto a racetrack in 2016, to her retirement at Banstead Manor Stud.

An intimate interview between John Gosden, her trainer, and Frankie Dettori, her jockey, reveals a behind-the-scenes account of what went into her achievements and gives insight into the pressures that came with attempting the seemingly impossible third win in Europe's richest and most prestigious race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. You will relive Enable's successes, difficulties and celebrations both on the track, and off, and watch how she managed to conquer and transcend the racing world to become a global superstar and earn the title, the 'Queen of Racing.'

SPIRIT (2018)

COMPOSER/AUDIO POST PRODUCTION

'Spirit' is a celebration of the human spirit, shot on location across Nepal in Kathmandu, Pokhara, at Pashupatinath temple, and at the Nagi Gompa, Namo Buddha, Tamang and Kanying Sherub Ling monasteries. The film’s action follows a community of nuns and monks, young and old, as they prepare for a major ceremony, and is based on a poem spoken from the perspective of a narrator questioning the nature of their own existence. You can read an interview with me in Indie Shorts Mag, where I discuss in greater detail how the film was conceived and made.

*'Spirit' was nominated for Best International Film at the 2020 Georgia Shorts Film Festival,
*was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2020 Summer in the South Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia,
*was an Official Selection of the 2020 Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival (FIDBA),
*was an Official Selection of the 2018 FilmBath Festival in the UK,
*debuted at the Future Shorts Spring Screening in Saigon on June 1st 2018,
*and has been featured on Directors Notes, Booooooom, Film Shortage and Indie Shorts Mag.

Written & Directed by Dillon M. Banda