Projects in categories: Fiction

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Playing on our universal fear of the dark, THE POWER is a chilling supernatural thriller by BAFTA-nominated director Corinna Faith, in the vein of THE WOMAN IN BLACK and THE OTHERS. London - the long, hard winter of 1974. As striking miners switch off the power across Britain, rolling electrical blackouts plunge the country into darkness. Val, a young nurse on her first day of duty, is forced to work the night shift in a crumbling hospital. When most of the patients and staff are evacuated to another hospital across town, Val finds herself in a near empty building, enveloped by a sinister darkness. Within these walls lies a deadly secret and a terrifying presence. Now Val must face her own traumatic past and deepest fears to confront the malevolent force intent on destroying them all.

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Some time after the death of their mother, two sisters Phoebe and Dot, both performance artists, have returned to their family home on the Isle of Wight, a large house crammed full of Edwardian bohemian memorabilia and accumulated family clutter. Before selling the house, they are working on a site specific piece which will reflect their troubled childhood memories and their mother’s work as a composer; she wrote music for both pianola and music box which included songs using the words of the Victorian poet, Mary Coleridge whose poem 'A Clever Woman' becomes the title of the film. The action takes place over one day when the sisters’ producer/curator , Monica comes to visit. With them all is Tom, a young man who has been house-sitting; he is also an accomplished musician and the sisters have started to get him involved in their project. As the day progresses the sisters rehearse some of their mother songs and work on dramatising various aspects of her life including her complicated marriage and serial infidelity; this produces a heightened and haunting atmosphere which, coupled with an unexpected connection between Tom and Monica, leads to dramatic revelations and an explosive and poignant conclusion.

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Kelly is an assassin, a trained killer and experimental chemist who specialises in poison. She's just turned fifty and has become weary of her lifestyle. Yet the assassin is in her blood - anger and cynicism prevent her from turning her back on killing for money. Especially now. After learning of the brutal rape and murder of her young charge, Sam, Kelly allows an inner rage to take hold and breaks protocol by torturing and killing one of the murderers, leaving his body for the rest of the gang to discover in their warehouse. But the gang is not about to vanish. They are dangerous - organised crime professionals who inhabit Europe's dark underworld - and now it's their turn to seek vengeance. Ignoring desperate phone calls from her superior, Ed, urging her to allow his agency to protect her, Kelly goes on the run and flees to Spain where she attempts to ride out the storm - without success. As her pursuers move ever closer, Kelly needs to draw on radical ingenuity to stay alive, and taps into any opportunity to keep one step ahead of capture and a fate worse than death.

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Life is full of realistic dreams for Oliver as he is about to embark on a magnificent boxing career, at least that was the plan until a horrific accident.

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Christmas, 1995. As Scotland reels from a devastating loss of industry, a man is trapped in an escalating nightmare. Forced to follow a series of bizarre and deadly instructions contained in red envelopes, he is soon stranded in the wilderness, with his fate bound to that of a stranger - a woman he finds caught in the same brutal game.

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Depressed and living in isolation, Demelza promises to leap from the cliffs of her Cornish village when her elderly dog Lucky dies. Can she find a reason to live before he snuffs it?

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When a young Palestinian woman tries to claim asylum in the UK, she faces the indifference of British bureaucracy and the disillusionment of a Polish asylum officer on the verge of leaving the country for good.

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Two assassins keep watch as a young man digs his own grave. Meanwhile, in a fancy-dress shop, the assassins’ daughter has just found out she is pregnant to the gravedigger when the kingpin who ordered the hit walks in. In his debut, writer/director Robert Herbert McClean draws inspiration from myriad of classic cinema to create this truly unique dark comedy.

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Set in the small town of Gloucester, this surrealist drama explores the return of a young man (Rory Alexander) to his old life after the disappearance of his mother. Following his release from a psychiatric hospital, all appears to begin again as normal when his guardian Dunleavy (Mark Rylance) takes him in and offers him his old job back at the garage. But, one night, taken to a mysterious club by fellow garage workers, the old magic of the forest and his past collide in ways he could never expect.

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Essentially Jekyll & Hyde with an AI in an alternative Liverpool. A Robotics company in Liverpool called IA Industries have to fast track a project to ensure they can sell it. When they download a new package into it, they merge, and create a Jekyll Hyde character who is rational and inquisitive one moment to violent and ruthless the next. It breaks free from its facility, and the company need it back or they are finished. J1S stumbles around the streets of Liverpool, one minute watching, the next minute killing. The more humane side questions why he was created, the other just reacts and takes control. Soon their split personalities actually benefit the situations they are in. Will the company get him back, or will the residents of Liverpool be safe?

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Two friends Mike and Kwesi take a journey to Ghana to seek pastures new. While en-route to complete a lucrative land deal, they encounter an array of issues.

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Two twenty-something former best friends Margo and Celeste meet again at a hen party back in Cornwall, but under the waves of disappointment and failure, will the reunion cause them to sink or swim?