DOCS: Our Lives - The Boy Who Will Never Grow Old
STUART WICKISON, 19, has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a condition that has confined him to a wheelchair and ventilator and will eventually kill him. But despite needing a ventilator at night and only able to move a few fingers, Stuart is moving to Treloar College to study an art degree. The pioneering college is for severely disabled teenagers and allows them to live their life as normal. While Stuart is raring to move on to a new chapter of his life, his parents are having difficulty letting go. This uplifting intimate film follows Stuart on a remarkable journey, as he pushes himself beyond his limits, overcoming obstacles to achieve his dreams.
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DOCS: The World’s Fattest Pet and Me
In a world where the lottery of nature predicts your shape and size, there’s a strange competitiveness attached to holding the title of the Fattest Pet In The World. Although there’s little money at stake, the fame and prestige of the title continues to drive pet owners across the world to apply to Guinness for the World’s Fattest Pet category. Recently Guinness retired the category leaving a vacuum in it’s place. With no other definitive authority on the subject, Mark Dolan is determined to find out for himself who the World’s Fattest Pet is. Stopping off in America, Germany, and the UK to track down the world’s fattest pets, he gets an insight into their relationships with their owners, and delves into the unusual subcultures that surround them. Throughout his journey he discovers a world of casting sessions for fat dogs, websites that exchange tips on the most fattening diets for pets, and uncovers a world of obese animals with increasingly short life expectancies.
Barcroft DOCS
Teenage Wives looks at three relationships involving teenagers. In Cumbria, we meet seventeen year old Fay who's fiance Paul, thirty years her senior, went to prison for abducting her. In Essex, we meet Hayley, 40 and her toy boy Dexter, 20 as they show the age gap between them makes no difference to their love for each other. Finally in Swindon, we meet high school sweethearts Lucia, 16 and Markus, 18 as they deal with the impending birth of their first child.
