Projects in categories: Fiction

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23 year old Jessica Anne Khalid, alone and penniless through no fault of her own, thought she had reached the nadir of her miserable life, but within 48 hours things will go from bad to worse. In the face of adversity she summons up the courage to take back control, abandoning what little she has left, including her identity, and sets out to seek a better life. In a different part of the country, lonely widower and retired army officer Peter Jeffries, stricken by grief and racked with guilt, contemplates his limited future alone. When their paths cross, she recognises a kindred spirit, he his last chance to make amends, and together they discover the true meaning of unconditional love.

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How can anyone justify owning a holiday home, solely for their own use, when so many of their fellow human beings are rough sleepers?

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A figure conjures a remedy from jars of spider webs and beeswax, while studying the pages of ‘Micrographia’ (Robert Hook, 1665); the first book to illustrate insects and plants as observed through the lens of a microscope. Commissioned by Folklore Tapes for collaborative project ‘The Art of Magic: re-scoring and restoring objectless index cards from the Museum of Witchcraft’.

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Indie kid Rich lives in a remote cottage in Wales with his mum, Nesta, who is a novelist. He plays a guitar, but mostly to the sheep outside the house and the majestic, barren hills opposite. Nesta is a heavy smoker and has just been brought back from the hospital, suffering, probably, from a lung cancer. Rich is looking after her and helping out with the shopping and house work, but wants her to make a change. They have a heated argument, but she refuses to accept the fact that cigarettes could be the cause for her decease, even though she gets slimmer and noticeably weaker. She spends her days in bed, having lost her writing inspiration. She is visited by the local mobile GP, fitness maniac Dr Mickiewicz, who runs through forests and fields to reach his patients. He prescribes her movement and to Nesta's astonishment, even a fitness program which she has to follow. Nesta finds the very idea of her getting fit and taking up running ridiculous...

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A troubled fugitive steals a car only to find himself faced with a grim moral dilemma.

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A young greek boy living in London tries to become a man quicker than he's becoming one and sets about performing a series of manly tasks. What's the worst that could happen? Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

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An impressionable Launceston Elliot comes under the spell of the iconic Sandow The Magnificent, a performing circus strongman. He seeks him out as his mentor to train him for the Olympics.

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When Troy Holloway wakes up to find himself trapped aboard a drifting escape pod shooting towards the Sun he quickly realises the true terror of his situation. With rapid oxygen depletion and a burn- up rate of 90 minutes, Commander Roberts leads a rescue party to save Holloway before time runs out. Having recently lost his son and now confronted by his immediate end, Holloway feels less enthusiastic about survival. But Roberts, speaking to him only through a weak radio transmission, is determined to save his life, and both soon learn that the lives they have both lived influence each other in unexpected ways. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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Tammy, bored with her brother's writing, is transported to a magical world where she, the Queen of Fun, sees the King of Dull build a dam on the River of Love. Her land is destroyed in the process, so she declares war on Dull.

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Single mom Jackie works as a human trafficker for illegal immigrants. She faces an unbearable task when she is confronted with a refugee baby.

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A troubled traditional Irish musician re-enters the fold after a long absence. An emotionally stunted friend wants to offer an apology. When words fail them both, music is all they have to bring them together.

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Wounded and armed with a rifle, a young man hides out in the storage room of an empty building awaiting the arrival of his target - political candidate Debra Gray. Haunted by two conflicting accounts of his brother's death in police custody, his obsession with Debra Gray slowly escalates as his sanity begins to unravel.