Erasing David is Green Lions’ latest production: a documentary about privacy, surveillance and the database state.

For more information including how to see the film: www.erasingdavid.com

David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy and the loss of it.

Made with The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, the film will be in cinemas from April 29th, and screened on the UK’s Channel 4 Television on 4th May.

Happy New Year! We’ve just come back from Ethiopia where we spent a wonderful 10 days with our great friends at A-CET (the African Childrens Educational Trust). Here’s the result.

We’ve made this film for A-CET, The African Children’s Educational Trust. We have supported this great charity since 2005 when we made the film NEVER AT REST, which is about Claire Bertschinger, the Red Cross nurse who helped to bring the Ethiopian famine to the world’s attention. A-CET has just finished building a great new school in northern Ethiopia and Bob Geldolf – a big supporter through Band Aid Trust – came to open it. We wanted the film to encourage further donations to help A-CET but also to try to present a positive and uplifting portrait of a country which is often defined in the media by images of famine and war.

Short version (above) 12 minutes HDCAM
Long version (on DVD) 40 minutes HDCAM

Our feature doc Erasing David went down a storm at this year’s Sheffield Doc Fest, premiering on Thursday (5/11) and Friday (6/11) to full theatres. The screenings were followed by lively Q&As, where questions for David included “Is that your real name?”, and “Do you think Sherlock Holmes would have found you?”…

David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy and the loss of it.

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Ashley Jones co-runs indie production company Green Lions with creative partner David Bond, producing, directing and developing documentary and fiction projects. As well as producing ERASING DAVID, his first feature doc, Ashley recently directed a series of 3 Minute Wonder films for Channel 4 about the UK strip industry, and is currently developing new projects, including three feature docs and a radio documentary series for the BBC.

David Bond is an award-winning director, producer and writer of documentary, commercial and short film projects. He graduated from the Met Film School in 2004 and since then has completed various film projects exploring social and political themes. ERASING DAVID is David’s first feature documentary. David co-runs production company Green Lions with his creative partner Ashley Jones and is currently in development on several projects including new feature docs, a radio series for the BBC and a book about his adventures on the run.

We will be adding more films, news and updates regularly, but for now this is a work in progress.

Sebastian’s take on drugs. Sebastian takes on drugs. Sebastian takes drugs on. Sebastian on drugs takes. And camels. And Nick Cave.

A series of short films for Hodder about the author, artist and dandy Sebastian Horsley. Awarded 6/6 stars in Time Out, and described as, “The most flat-out demented and compelling account of a life gone wrong”.

Documentary (HDV) 2007

Sebastian’s views on death, and the value of peasants.

Sebastian’s view about music. And Notting Hill.

Sebastian on the joys and agonies of dandyism.

Sebastian on sex on Sebastian.

Sebastian talks about his memoir, Dandy in the Underworld.