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Is Britain being duped by “fake homeless”, chancers posing as destitute to boost takings? Or is this a scare story to demonise real homeless? Ellie Flynn investigates. The number of people sleeping rough in England is at a record-high – a 73% increase over the last three years. Government data shows that on any given night in autumn last year, nearly five thousand people were recorded sleeping on the streets, a figure that has more than doubled since 2010. But there are claims that the UK has a serious problem with “fake homeless” begging on the street. These are people who have homes, but still go out onto the streets to beg. They pose as if they are living on the streets so that they can collect money from strangers. News stories of scammers are frequent, and some police records show that 80% of people begging have “some kind of home” to go to. With beggars in our towns and cities sometimes behaving aggressively and anti-socially, the thought that people may be pretending to be homeless when they're not has enraged many communities. In Cambridgeshire, the police say there are towns where everyone begging is fake so they practice a “zero tolerance” attitude to encountering begging, sending them for sentencing at a magistrates. But it’s not just the police who are stamping out fake begging. In Devon, Ashley Sims is taking a stand by photographing, investigating and then shaming fake homeless beggars. He claims he has cut the number of homeless in Torbay from 23 to just 6 homeless people, as all the “fake homeless” have been driven out after being exposed. Ashley has been branded a “homeless vigilante” by the press. And in Liverpool one business owner claims every beggar outside his pubs and clubs is fake homeless. So are we in a country full of scammers? Homeless charities argue that the individuals people like Ashley is photographing and Cambridge police are taking action on may well have homes, but that they have complex and chaotic lives that may have led to them begging on the streets. They argue that people like Ashley are demonising the homeless population, who already face a lack of trust and abuse from the public. So what's the truth?

There are lots of people who don't care if the goods they buy are original or knock-offs, as long as they look like the real thing and they're cheap. After all, what harm can there be in buying a fake designer bag or trainers - all you're doing is denting the profits of the multinational manufacturers. But, as the first of this two-part investigation shows, it goes much deeper than that. For instance, with the counterfeit market now encompassing pharmaceutical drugs, consumers could be damaging themselves, too.

Was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, a fake? This documentary explores the authenticity of the "Sunflowers" painting by Vincent Van Gogh, bought in the late 1980s for a then record sum by a Japanese insurance company.

A huge collection of Russian modernist paintings enters the art market and European and American museums. Is it fake or real? And who is the mysterious man behind it?

In the near future, an introverted young woman uses a deepfake app to watch romantic films featuring herself and a neighbour. But when the government restricts this technology, she is forced to pursue a relationship in real life and learn that love isn't quite like the movies.

In this fake documentary that skewers the world of no-budget camcorder cinema, amateur filmmaker Ed Benjamin and his kid sister Meredith put their savings into producing a direct-to-video sexy vampire flick. They foolishly hire ex-soap star Veronica Weaver as the lead, whose eccentricities and diva behavior threaten to wreck the entire production.

Documentary about women who spend hundreds, some times thousands of pounds on dolls which look like life-like "fake babies".

In a world where even his brothers in arms are against him, 38-years-old Police officer Rawad Fakhoury executes a mission impossible to provide a kidney for his dying daughter. The clock is ticking while there's no one to trust but himself.

The preview format has always appealed to me: short, sweet and action packed. I decided to make my own to a fictitious film never to be made called 'Blondie + the Sheik,' starring Hester McMarkup and Angelo Q. Trashwad. –H. M.

Film is a sketch to a larger film project.

A new, original documentary from Connecticut Public, Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation, takes on this topic, just in time for the 2020 election season. Viewers will learn how and why misinformation spreads, and how to be a smarter information consumer in our increasingly digital world.

A lesbian trailer park couple, transgender neighbors, and what happens when their life long relationship is tested.

The story revolves around Avni and her dream of becoming a collector. So that her dream can be fulfilled by going to Mumbai, she gets a nod from the place she comes to and starts chasing her dreams. As she chases her dreams, changes in relationships and relationships take her life on an unexpected turn. Will Avni get her dream or not?

An autobiographical short film exploring Tobi’s first mainstream porn shoot and expectations around performance, Money Shot Blues and How to Fake Ejaculation stands out as a landmark film in the Feminist Porn movement and an example at the kinds of stories that happen when trans women are the ones telling them.

Two musicians brothers face the mob.

In a world where it's hard to know what's real and what's not, Peter McIndoe and Connor Gaydos have set out to show the world what they believe to be the truth: that a high-level government conspiracy has seen all known birds replaced by deep-state agents with cutting-edge surveillance devices, all meant to observe and control American citizens.