Projects in categories: Fiction

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A short desktop documentary about a stolen video, and the online search for the thief. When Hugh finds out that his video has been stolen, and turned into a viral meme by an anonymous TikToker, he embarks on an internet odyssey in an attempt to find the thief. Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2021 Official Selection Tribecca Film Festival 2022

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Things get wild at the VISA and Immigration Services when Karim, a young Iranian father living in the UK is mistakenly threatened with deportation.

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Disinterested and tired of misunderstandings, Jonny, who is Deaf, leaves a dinner party taking the viewer on an audio-visual, time-traveling adventure. For hearing viewers, it is an illuminating and emotional experience. For deaf viewers, the film is a familiar tale of misunderstanding and isolation.

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Adam Bernet's last wish was for his funeral guests to watch a special video he made, reenacting his final, gruesome, moments on Earth.

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An off-beat romantic comedy, set in a Post Graduate Partnering Programme, led by the world's leading practitioner in sustainable love. We follow Willow on a series of compatibility assessments with an onslaught of outrageous suitors. Willow faces the ultimate question; should one trust science or instinct? Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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An ode to the madness and mundanity of the high street, told through the window of a classic West African hair salon. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Shorts - Your UK or Mine? - World premiere Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022

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The story follows an unlikely friendship between Ruth - an isolated pensioner in her 80s that visits her allotment daily, and Safiya - a teenage Syrian refugee that is struggling to adapt to her new life in Bradford.

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It’s Belfast – early 70s… BOOM! Something’s in the air and it’s not a bomb, it’s a revolution. Glam Rock is drowning out the noise of armoured cars. As British soldiers patrol the streets, kids are glued to Top Of The Pops, entranced by Marc Bolan, the androgynous, satin-clad, glitter-god. Official Selection Krakow Film Festival 2022

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A shapeshifting noirish romance about 20-something Mina. By day, she holds down a professional job. By night, Mina practices martial arts. A clash with a stranger triggers a supernatural occurrence that will draw her deep into the very ancestral traditions that she has been trying to escape.

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A first date becomes a torment of past and present relationships. Set in a quirky west London restaurant, millennials Adira and Dan sit down to their first date together. Despite matching on a dating app, on the first impression, photographer Dan does not fit Adira’s archetype. After an awkward first course, screenwriter Adira explains her struggles with writer's block, Dan suggests she write a screenplay of her own life. Awkward silences at the dining table transport us to intimate moments with Adira in her flat. We see her struggles with depression and loneliness. A dark figure follows Adira like a shadow through London streets. Gushing streams moving upward through a Nordic valley take us deep into Adira’s sub-consciousness. Moving through various dream-like states reality becomes uncertain. Adira is writing, we hear the typewriter violently tapping, is she changing the course of events? Back at the restaurant, Dan has become visibly distressed. His character viscous. This is life through a social media lens, a fifty-word limit, and endless filters - until a violent encounter brings reality crashing down.

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A desperate teenager snatches a rich woman's handbag but in a bizarre twist of fate discovers her life is not as rosy as it seems and that they have more in common than he realizes.

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An experimental short film that explores the theme of female rivalry within the patriarchal arena. Trapped in a vicious circle fuelled by envy and jealousy, a theatre understudy transcends and finally confronts the real source of her dark emotions.