Projects in categories: Fiction

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Through poetic narration an eight-year-old boy tells of his hero and his monster. A big brother addicted to heroin, his hero. And the violent monster in his home, his father.

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Once there was a taxidermist whose collection was his life; and what his life lacked most, he decided, was a Lady. But the Lady in question had other ideas. This campy gothic fairytale hides a sly analogy about how we objectify each other in the post-Tinder world of online dating.

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Bold, suave and enigmatic—exactly what Ian is not. But if this oddball café regular learns the mother tongue of the waitress aneta, maybe he can convince her otherwise.

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An alternative reality scenario where a group of animals has become organised and are committed to make themselves heard by humans, guerrilla style. The film is a surrealist take on human responsibility over climate change and on our inescapable connection with nature. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition

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A fairy tale with a magic realist twist, it centres on a mix of emotions and ideas around love, community, isolation and family. Based on a short story, written with the English north-east coast in mind, and in our sometime awful world sets out to be deliberately hopeful.

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The Inland Sea is a meditative journey into the mind of a female victim of domestic abuse.

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Zoe has suffered with leukemia her whole life. When her condition worsens after the latest course of treatment, her doctor gives her a few months to live. Zoe, heartbroken, responds by resigning from life completely while her parents, John and Elizabeth, try to lift her spirits and fail. One day, in a field near her home, an Astronaut falls from the sky, crash landing in a space pod amongst the trees. John and Zoe rescue the Astronaut from the wreckage and take him home. The arrival of the Astronaut into their lives sets in motion a parable full of mystery, love and loss.

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Charlie is a zoo-head, addicted to a powerful hallucinogenic with memory crunching side-effects. He is forced by the authorities to enter a radically experimental rehabilitation treatment designed to recover his memories and put his mind back to how it was before he became addicted. The system crashes and he becomes trapped in horrifying memory loops. Haunted by childhood traumas, Charlie’s psyche repeatedly shuts down in defence, only to reboot with increasingly disturbing recurrences. His girlfriend Megan, herself a recovering addict, reveals the depth of her feeling for him and Charlie realises he actually has something precious to live for. But it may be too late as the twists and turns of the extreme visions intensify, potentially destroying his mind for good. Unless the desperate efforts to save him can succeed.

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A bare all Avant-garde homage to silent stag films and pre-code Hollywood.

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Trevor Wallis is a very successful salesman, he works for a medium software company but one day his life changes forever. A gritty northern drama that looks at the horrors of homelessness.

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After a mysterious electromagnetic pulse renders the world's technology useless, a young girl finds herself isolated and alone with only her father's strict set of rules to keep her alive. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - World premiere