Standoff Films is an independent film production company.
Our documentaries seek to uncover unsettling realities by hearing from those most directly affected by the social and political situations we examine.
Standoff Films was launched in 2014, when we released our first film Campsfiled House: An Immigration Removal Centre.
Since then we have made a number of short videos about events inside UK immigration detention centres – assaults by guards, protests by detainees, hunger strikes. These videos are made in response to calls from within detention centres, channelled to us through personal contacts or via a network of people organising around immigration detention. You can watch all our videos here.
In the future we plan to make engaged documentaries about other social and political situations outside of immigration detention centres.
If you have a film you want us to make about a situation or an imminent event get in contact:
standoffilms@gmail.com 07459030368
FILMMAKERS
LOU MACNAMARA
Design & Communications, Standoff Films
The scale of detainee labour exposed
Detainees expose bed bugs & mice at Harmondsworth
"Four days they keep me in the cell" - Witness Reports on the Aftermath of Campsfield Assault on 29th Nov
Harmondsworth Hunger Strike 9 March 2015
"We are being threatened here" protesters tell us about the authorities response to the March 2015 Harmondsworth hunger strike
GEORGE EVANS
Research, Standoff Films
Hunger Strike at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre forces Home Office to negotiate, May, 2014
Over 50 detainees go on Hunger Strike at Campsfield House IRC 07.05.14
29 November 2014: Detainees Protest at Campsfield House IRC
Harmondsworth Hunger Strike 9 March 2015
"We are being threatened here" protesters tell us about the authorities response to the March 2015 Harmondsworth hunger strike
From Harmondsworth IRC: the silence and noise around the hunger strike
"He did not die. So the officers started beating him up": 6 March 2015, IRC the Verne
CONTRIBUTORS
ANONYMOUS
Detained, Campsfield House IRC
BRIDGET ANDERSON
Professor of Migration & Citizenship, Oxford University
Campsfield House: An Immigration Removal Centre
D.F.
Anonymised for safety
Detained, Harmondsworth IRC
G.W.
Anonymised for safety
Detained, The Verne IRC
"He did not die. So the officers started beating him up": 6 March 2015, IRC the Verne
J.W.
Anonymised for safety
Detained, The Verne IRC
"He did not die. So the officers started beating him up": 6 March 2015, IRC the Verne
DR MELANIE GRIFFITHS
Research Associate,
School of Sociology, Politics & International studies, Bristol University
Campsfield House: An Immigration Removal Centre
OUSMAN NOOR
Immigration Barrister, Strand Chambers
Habeus Corpus Project
Campsfield House: An Immigration Removal Centre
PAULETTE MENGNJO
Management Committee Chair
Right to Remain
Campsfield House: An Immigration Removal Centre
P.F.
Anonymised for safety
Detained Harmondsworth IRC
From Harmondsworth IRC: the silence and noise around the hunger strike
"We are being threatened here" protesters tell us about the authorities response to the March 2015 Harmondsworth hunger strike
PHIL MILLER
Researcher, Corporate Watch
Campsfield House: An Immigration Removal Centre
The scale of detainee labour exposed
ROBERT RAPAPORT
Robert Rapoport is a PhD student based in Oxford, UK. His research focuses on different methods of scripting participant observation.
Campsfield House: An Immigration Removal Centre
S.O.
Anonymised for safety
Detained, The Verne IRC
"He did not die. So the officers started beating him up": 6 March 2015, IRC the Verne
