The NCF's first involvement in documentary is the feature length Hoover Street Revival. The film is directed by Sophie Fiennes who will also produce the project through her company Amoeba Films in co-production with Ideal

Audience in France. Kees Kasander (Christy Malry's Own Double-Entry and Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief..etc) is Executive Producer.

This doc shows South Central LA preacher Bishop Noel Jones setting the minds of people on fire. The film is co-financed by the New Cinema Fund, BBC and Ideale Audience who are handling international sales. Fiennes' NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) Award received in January 2000 will also contribute to the project.

Also funded is Bodysong, written and directed by Simon Pummell and produced by Janine Marmot of Hot Property Films. It is an integrated cross-media project that combines a feature film for theatrical release, a website and a gallery show. The film is an orchestration of images cut to a powerful track created from Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.

It tells the story of the human life cycle, using film and video footage of the last 100 years collected from a multitude of archives around the world. The project ranges across the many scales of human experience giving a fresh look to the way in which we have recorded our lives, from microcosmic medical footage shot inside the body, to accumulated archive footage of massive events from ritual celebration to the carnage of warfare.

The 35mm feature film will be released to coincide with an innovative website allowing the viewer to visit each shot in the film and find web links and information about each.

"From the first pitch, Simon and Janine’s vision scorched its way through the often empty hype about cross-platform film making with its ambition and scale, and with the exhilarating addition of an original score by Jonny Greenwood, the project was irresistible. BODYSONG is set to become a milestone in the creation of a genuinely new digital cinema."

The film is also being financed by FilmFour Lab and represents the first feature partnership with the NCF. FilmFour International will be the international sales agent for the film, and FilmFour Distributors will distribute in the UK.

Pummell's previous work ranges from experimental fiction films, through animation to pop promos for Queen. He has won numerous international awards for films and has enjoyed many retrospectives at major international Film Festivals.

Janine Marmot’s previous award-winning credits include Nichola Bruce’s debut feature film I Could Read the Sky and Institute Benjamenta by the Brothers Quay. She set up Hot Property Films with director Pummell in 1995.

The New Cinema Fund has also invested UKP37,500 into additional post-production on Paul Greengrass' Bloody Sunday, UKP44,345 additional production financing for Billie Eltringham's This is not a Love Song, UKP65,000 for Anita & Me, UKP20,000 for Magdalene and UKP10,000 as part of its pilot programme for Olly Blackburn's Fever produced by Chris Simon for S Films.