Projects in categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Will is a bartender in New Orleans. He has a great job, great friends, and a girlfriend, Carrie, who loves him. He skates across life’s surface, ignoring complications and concentrating on enjoying the moment. One night at the bar, a violent brawl breaks out, which injures one of his regular customers and causes some college kids to leave behind a cell phone in their haste. Will begins receiving disturbing texts and calls from the stranger’s phone. While Will hopes to not get involved, Carrie gets lost down a rabbit hole investigating this strange malevolence. They’ve discovered something unspeakable, and it’s crawling slowly into the light.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Midnight - World premiere
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors Fortnight - European premiere

Synopsis

A universal story of friendship, rebellion and the irresistible power of gathered youth. Set to a soundtrack as eclectic and electrifying as the scene it gave birth to, BEATS is a story for our time.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere

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The story of the sacred youth and the stakes of a cosmic journey. Where the embodiment and the pain, pleasure and sublimation there-in are non-negotiable.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - US Narrative Short Films - World premiere

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The Royal Shakespeare Company explores the future of theatre with Magic Leap in this sublime production of the "Seven Ages of Man" speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Here they present a mixed reality experience using cutting-edge volumetric capture with Shakespearean actor Robert Gilbert and an original musical score by award-winning composer Jessica Curry. The line “all the world’s a stage” turns literal as users experience the play in multiple and simultaneous places.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - New Frontiers Exhibitions - World premiere

Synopsis

Merseyside is a troubled place for most men (of a certain age). The exception is one Buster Brown. Women just adore him.
The unhappy men need to banish Buster from the region - Enter - 4 Gits And a Guitar - They’ll run him out of town! Or will they? So let the fun begin.

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During the Battle of Waterloo, soldier's wife Ellen searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and resorts to desperate measures to survive.

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When Annabelle wakes up in a strange bedroom on her 30th birthday she thinks the day cannot get any worse... but then Bernard walks in. As she pieces together the events of the night before, she finds herself making a powerful and unexpected connection.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Laugh Srand

Synopsis

Every year on Midwinter's Eve the sunstone must be returned to the the Yew Tree Goddess and a sacrifice must be made or the darkness will last forever.
A one-shot short film all filmed in one take about the magic of midwinter's eve.

Synopsis

Adnan, an imaginative ten-year-old Syrian boy, has fled his home country with his mother after the rest of their family were killed and their neighbourhood destroyed. Now settled in the UK, he must use all his creativity to break through his mother’s PTSD or risk losing her forever.

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In the middle of nowhere, a toll booth operator with a disdain for conversation and a mild lactose intolerance meets a customer at a turning point in her life.

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Spending his last night as a civilian in his dream-like local tennis club, Michael, a young British soldier confronts a glimpse of the near future waiting for him on the other side of the night.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020 - International Competition

Synopsis

Barry wants to have vicarious immortality through his children but finds he can’t have kids. His friend invites him to a private club of which he is second in line, The Ancient Order Of Nocturnal Immortal Phlebotomists Of Albion, whose members live forever by sucking the blood of others. However, their membership is literally dying out because of their rare blood group – B Negative. Barry tries to help with their marketing, something he has never done before, and carries out various unpalatable tasks in return for gaining true immortality.