Projects in categories: Fiction

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Rural England. An immigrant doctor fearing deportation lives off grid. While scavenging in the forest, he stumbles upon a man, barely alive. The doctor takes the stranger back to his cabin to nurse him. Their opposing political ideals, pit them against each other. The stranger voted to leave. The doctor wants to remain.

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This is a meta-fiction/sci-fi short with just one character touching through obsessive compulsive disorder and parallel universe.

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Part erotic lyric video, part theme park from hell. The film is essentially a lyric video that tells the tale of a traumatic event through the use of text, animation and sound. The film includes various overwhelming surreal, hyper-saturated environments, beginning with a cliched CGI animation of a flower opening against a perfectly kitsch blue sky. The world then morphs into a hand-shaped planet that in some way resembles a Theme Park. Debunking the white middle-class American family, the amusement park becomes a place of hell. Sounds are amplified and screams of excitements are modified to become screams of pain. With a nod to the excess of meme culture, additional muffled, tinny sounds of Instagram clips play throughout the background on a continual loop, beginning and ending abruptly, resembling the longevity of a ten-second Instagram story. Within the film there is a prevalent sense of slippage, the text begins to get lost as you get distracted by the alluring campiness of the background visuals. Due to this fleeting time with the text, the reader ends up constructing the already written tale themselves, creating their own constructed translation of an already fractured story. The text itself is a mix of erotic and confessional writing, discussing the complexity that is inherent in a gay man's lust. Conjoining sexual fantasy with the prospect of failure, the text flips between the distinctions of reality and the delusion of erotic imagination. Containing themes of anger, desire and trauma, the text is both fictional and autobiographical.

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When two inept young criminals break into the home of a washed-up psychic in search of his hidden loot, they get a lot more than they bargained for… because ‘The All-Seeing Stupendo' is a genuine master of the dark mystic arts – at least that’s what it says on his poster and he’s sticking to it.

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An unusual assignment for a young man paid to honour other people's dead. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2021

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Chris Blythe returns to his home town in Wales after losing a fortune in Canada. Billy’s daughter Elen is a volatile and charismatic woman. She meets Chris and they fall in love. Billy is a dangerous man. His daughter Elen is a damaged and dangerous woman. And Chris finds himself torn between love and hate.....

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Katerina, from Norway, begins her journey in London as a nurse working in palliative care. They say it can only come but once in a lifetime, and her bolt of lightning hits unexpectedly when she meets an older male nurse called Nicholas, a man with mystery and intrigue, and a somewhat untraceable past. Cautious at first, they both try to resist the inevitable passionate romance, but it proves impossible to avoid as an attraction functioning deeper than the thinking mind is set in motion. Nik with his Italian heritage, wears his heart on his sleeve, a contrast to Kat's Nordic culture which excites her. Her new dealings with death have taught her that she really wants to live. The passion and attention with which Nik lives seems to switch on a light in her, which in turn ignites a lust for life in them both, as they begin to live through their emotions and not their logic, leading to a path of not understanding themselves, let alone each other, until it is too late.

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Alice, a grieving and disconnected pharmacist struggles with the knowledge that her husband was having an affair before his death. When she encounters ‘the other woman’ mourning her husband’s ghost-bike it forces Alice to confront her detachment, accepting compassion and understanding in the unlikely form of her trifle-loving methadone patient.

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A couple's relationship threatens to collapse under the pressures of life. Official Selection Busan International Film Festival 2020 – World premiere

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Simon is a miserable hotel worker caught in an existential loop. Doomed to carry out the never-ending task of setting up a formal dinner table, he listens to a self help tape to find some meaning in his meaningless work.

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When Chris' schizophrenic father claims to have killed a man, he must consider if he’s willing to become a criminal to protect his family.

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A young mother tries to protect her children while investigating the truth behind her husband’s murder.