Projects in categories: Fiction

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Comedian Jack Rooke goes back to uni for a tale of sexual enlightenment in the pre-Brexit, London-Olympics bliss of 2012. Featuring harpist Alexander Thomas, this tale of drugs, debauchery and dating apps is a heart-warming, romantic modern day diary entry, from one of the UK's most exciting comedians and screenwriters. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Laugh Strand

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Sisters, Helena and Lillian join the Women's Land Army to help Britain in its fight during WW2 but find themselves fighting a battle a little closer to home.

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2023 – A separatist movement has ignited civil war in the North of England. The UK government has built a wall dividing the country. Trapped in a refugee camp north of the border, a teenage girl must choose between loyalty to her father and her political ideology.

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Two families go on holiday to Germany together. Whilst the children are lost in their own world of innocence and discovery, secrets between the two adult couples begin to unravel. Both a love letter to Europe, and a study of a peculiarly British dysfunctionality, the film captures a golden summer of innocent childhood alongside the little tragedies of adulthood that define modern life.

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Set in the Welsh valleys, during the 1950s, we follow a fairy-tale crazed boy who believes his Father spends every day venturing down the rabbit hole through Wonderland. When his father fails to return from work in the coal mines, he battles with coming to terms with his father's death.

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A screen test for an adaptation of the ballet 'Giselle' as an ecofeminist thriller. Reimagined in a near-future, where Giselle and her friends have moved on from a failed metropolis to her mother’s rural village to “reset society”. An invasion of their successful community sets off a contamination of their new ecosystem with old power dynamics. Giselle’s death emerges as an investigation into mutability and multiplicity as a strategy for escape. (FIAC Brochure) Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020 - Bright Future - International premiere

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Twelve-year-old Reese must brave the mean and marvellous streets of North East Glasgow to bring his drunken father safely home. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019 - World premiere

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15-year-old Lara lives with her father and her strict governess, Miss Fontaine, in total isolation, and is struggling to find an outlet for her curiosity and burgeoning sexuality. When a carriage crash nearby brings a young girl into the family home to recuperate, Lara is enchanted by the eponymous Carmilla. The pair strike up a passionate relationship, which strikes fear in the heart of Miss Fontaine, and a complex triangulate emerges between the three women. Local rumours of an evil supernatural presence fuel Miss Fontaine's concern for Lara's wellbeing, and with the exhortation of the family doctor, Fontaine seeks to put an end to the relationship for good.

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Two young men are compelled toward one another through a shared grief. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019 - World premiere

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Johnina seeks revenge on her childhood abuser and the community that enabled him, with the help of a duck. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019

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After a strange encounter with his seemingly benign teacher, an isolated school boy must decide how to negotiate this contentious and intriguing relationship. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019

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Through a series of enchanting encounters, Fern discovers how to see the world from a different perspective.