Documentary Film

Margaret Jaconelli Eviction

Hope, memories, loss & community : Dalmarnock (Margaret Jaconelli) from chris leslie on Vimeo.

Margaret Jaconelli purchased her Dalmarnock home in 1976. She has lived as the sole remaining resident of Ardenlea St since 2002. With the Commonwealth Games fast approaching, the council wish to demolish the whole street which occupies the site of the proposed Athlete’s Village.

All the other residents have been re-housed- but Margaret, as one of the few who owns her property, refuses to move until offered adequate compensation. The Council won’t negotiate. They’re working to a deadline. For four years she goes on a one-woman crusade to save her family from being evicted whilst the rest of Dalmarnock is flattened around them. Then at dawn one day in March 2011, over 100 police and sheriff officers arrive. Mixing still photography, video reportage and interviews, this film follows Margaret’s story from March 2008 through to her eviction in March 2011.

Sarajevo 2012 – Twenty Years On

Sarajevo 2012 – Twenty Years On (Trailer) from chris leslie on Vimeo.

1992 – Sarajevo is under siege and bombardment from Bosnian Serb forces who surround the city. The siege lasts 1326 days – the longest siege in the modern history of mankind. 2012 – 20 years on from the start of the war and Sarajevo has peace. On the surface the city resembles any European city in the heart of Europe, but tensions and divisions and post conflict issues are high.

A trailer for upcoming documentary on city of Sarajevo and its people after war and siege. (This trailer is the result of one days filming in the city in August 2011 and will be used to try and get funding to go back and shoot a 30 minute film)

Jeanette’s Story

Jeanette’s Story from chris leslie on Vimeo.
3 minute clip taken from a longer film documenting AIDS orphans in Africa. This clip tells the story of Jeanette, a widower in South Africa in the last days of her life, as her only concern is who will look after her children.

AIDS Orphans in Rwanda

AIDS orphans in Rwanda from chris leslie on Vimeo.

Short clip from a longer film documenting the live of two young siblings who live as a child headed household in Rwanda. Children looking after children because all the adults in their lives are dead. Features a impromptu PTC by myself.