Projects in categories: Fiction

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Leading scientist and OCD-sufferer, Dr Beth Anderson breaks into a high security compound in the dead of night and risks losing everything to save a colleague from an out-of-date sandwich.

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FACTORY TALK is an intergenerational conversation about identity, sexuality and masculinity in a rural factory. Through the clanging of metal they make small talk, but as the gripes and grumbles testify to better times, the questions rising on the factory floor are of more than just nostalgia.

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Things take a turn for the worse when 13-year-old Alfie accepts his mysterious older brother's invitation to smoke weed for the first time.

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An incel struggles to deal with his rocky mental health and the cold stares of a woman in a coffee shop - fighting a losing battle to maintain self control

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A gritty Northern LGBTQ comedy-drama. Set in Blackpool in 1953, two young gay Yorkshire miners, Eddy and Tommy, are holidaying there and meet transvestite, James Elbridge, who is summoning up the courage to do the fabled walk from pier to pier.

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A young woman struggling to process her recent Aspergers diagnosis finds an empowering, magical talent for animation.

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When tree surgeon Laura discovers her twin sister’s commemorative oak is dying, she returns to their childhood home seeking the threads of connection. Here she must repair broken bonds with her estranged brother Joe before she can say goodbye to Eloise.

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Fletcher Dennis, a man of many talents, passports and identities, arrives in Northampton - a strange and haunted town in the heart of England, as dangerous as he is. On a mission to locate a stolen artefact for his menacing client, Fletcher finds himself entangled in a twilight world populated with vampires, sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, noir private eyes, and masked avengers. He quickly sinks into a bizarre and delirious black hole, that is hidden just beneath the surface of this seemingly quiet town. Soon enough Fletcher discovers that dreams and reality have been blurred and there might no longer be a real world to go back to… Welcome to The Show. Official Selection SXSW 2020

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Doncaster, South Yorkshire, a dead-end comedy night is underway. It’s a long way from London and miles from home for Jay and June, two comedians amongst the line-up. Sometimes June screws men because she wants a ‘hug’ and Jay, well Jay ‘hates your babies.’ Strangers at this point they find refuge in each other’s company.

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Nicko is late for a very special celebration. Is he too late? A psychological drama with themes of Mental Health, Drugs and emotional abuse.

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All things buried will resurface. Focused on the last weeks of the life of an archaeology professor, whose academic world is thrown into turmoil when forced to exhibit the 2000-year-old bog body he excavated with his former student and lover. As places, events and his relationships appear to conspire in the analysis of the bog body, he concocts an ‘archaeology of the living’. Forced to confront painful home truths created by the love affair that tore his family apart, he enlists the help of a young security guard at the university who has his own peculiar reasons for an intense devotion to the body. Increasingly affected by his illness, his final address at the opening of the exhibition becomes the haunting soundtrack to a brutal murder, an event for which he, as an act of atonement, is prepared to pay the ultimate price.

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Puppets Danny and Nelson return in another adventure in Autumn Never Dies, the sequel to The Greyness of Autumn. When a new love interest enters into Danny's life, his past quickly comes back to haunt him and now must choose a path in life that will truly make him happy.