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Western Gazette Pride Awards 2011 - The Winners
These short films profile the winners of the Western Gazette Pride Awards 2011, highlighting some of the unsung heroes from the West of England. GRACE Productions produced the films that were shown at the awards ceremony.
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Heart of Somerset Community Awards 2011
Celebrating local heroes across Somerset whose selfless contributions add so much to the richness of life in our communities.
Produced by GRACE Productions
Filmed by Film Tank - www.filmtank.co.uk
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BBC Panorama - I Helped My Daugher Die
What drives a mother to help her child die? For almost a year, Panorama cameras have been following Kay Gilderdale - the woman at the centre of the recent Assisted Suicide trial - as she faced a possible life sentence over her part in the death of her daughter Lynn.
She talks exclusively to Jeremy Vine about the night she helped her bedridden daughter kill herself and explores whether the law should be changed with those on both sides of the debate, including Debbie Purdy and Baroness Campbell.
Watch 'I helped My Daughter die' on BBC One on Monday 1st February 2010 at 20.30.
In the Panorama programme, Kay's grief at losing her 'beautiful daughter' turns to disbelief as the Crown Prosecution Service pressed on with a charge of attempted murder. She had already pleaded guilty to assisting in her daughter's suicide. The maximum sentence for assisted suicide is 14 years; the maximum for attempted murder is life.
In court, a jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty on the attempted murder charge and, giving her a conditional discharge on the assisted suicide charge the Judge, Mr Justice Bean, took the unusual step of questioning the CPS decision to press ahead with the trial.
The verdict comes just four months after the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, released interim guidelines supposed to clarify the law in such cases.
During the course of the programme, Kay explores whether the law surrounding assisted suicide should be changed. She talks to those on both sides of the debate, including: Debbie Purdy, who wants her husband Omar to be able to help her travel abroad to die - free from fear of prosecution - should her progressive MS become unbearable; and Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, who thinks the DPP's recent guidelines are opening the door to a potential change in the law - one which she believes could be 'dangerous' for anyone who, like her, suffers a terminal or incurable health condition.
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My Brother the Islamist
Tree-surgeon turned film-maker Robb Leech is an ordinary white middle-class boy from the Dorset seaside town of Weymouth. So too is his step-brother Rich. But a little over a year ago, Rich became a radical Islamist, who now goes by the name of Salahuddin. He associates with jihadist fundamentalists and believes the UK should be ruled by Sharia law.
Filmed over 12 months, Robb sets out to reconnect with his extremist step-brother; to find clues to what led Rich to become Salahuddin. Robb talks about his relationship with Rich as they were growing up, including home footage. Through the brothers' story, the viewer is taken into a previously unseen world of radical Islamists, living in Britain.
'My Brother the Islamist' broadcasts Monday 4 April, 9pm on BBCthree.
To read Robb's blog about the programme, follow this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-1<wbr>2900460
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About GRACE Productions
GRACE's latest broadcast film, My Brother the Islamist, won a prestigious Grierson documentary award nomination, making the final 4 nominees in Best Newcomer category. (Nov 2011) A fantastic achievement, huge thanks to Robb Leech (director), Jason Porthouse (editor), Simon Ford (exec prod), Clare Paterson (BBC exec) for their hard work and encouragement... and Charlotte Moore and Sam Anstiss (BBC commissioners) for giving us the opportunity!
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GRACE's latest broadcast film, My Brother the Islamist, won a prestigious Grierson documentary award nomination, making the final 4 nominees in Best Newcomer category. (Nov 2011) A fantastic achievement, huge thanks to Robb Leech (director), Jason...
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