Camera
Nick Gifford
Acting credits
Behind the camera
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.
Bitter Thorns
1993
NRA portrait of Mrs Khadeeja Begum, a widowed Pakistani mother of two in 1970s Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
Oh for the Wings of a Dove
1972
A paper bag salesman in Bombay accidentally stumbles on to a film set and becomes involved in farcical and surreal game of hide and seek with a very officious police inspector.
Feller By The Name Of...
1986
This intimate, quietly observed documentary charts the day-to-day life of Jamaican-born Sid Williams and his six children, who live in the Montpelier area of Bristol. The second in a trilogy of films that followed the Williams family.
A Good Father
1980
"A simple, entirely unaffected portrait of a family which happens to be black" is how Sid's Family was described by a Monthly Film Bulletin reviewer at the time of its release. The film is the first in a trilogy charting the lives of Jamaican-born, Bristol-based Sid Williams and his family at eight year intervals from 1972 through 1980 to 1988.
Sid’s Family
1972
The film is the third in a trilogy charting the lives of Jamaican-born, Bristol-based Sid Williams and his family at eight year intervals from 1972 through 1980 to 1988.
Sid’s Children
1988
Monty Rachmaninoff is an astoundingly beautiful Hereford bull, owned by a group of Welsh farmers. The selling of Monty from preparation to auction.
The Selling of Monty Rachmaninoff
1971