Projects in categories: Fiction

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Bambi drives her very pregnant best-friend Al to hospital to have her baby. They've decided that she's not going to keep it. Al's mood darkens as the inevitable and irreversible reality sinks in.

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Three intertwining stories explore the effects of mnemophrenia, a new condition arising from the use of advanced Virtual Reality (VR) films, causing the involuntary blending of real and artificial memories, creating an identity crisis. The three main characters, Jeanette, Nicholas and Robyin live in different time periods, all set in the future. They are connected in three ways: by blood; by the condition itself, since they are all mnemophrenics; and by their shared interest in ways that technology affects the human condition.

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Alice, former ballerina, is now in her 50s. A study of loneliness in relationships, art and revitalization.

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Following a pivotal week for long-time best friends Lilah and Coby (whose friendship is morphing into something far more venomous and toxic), a flower that once delicately bloomed proves to just as easily draw blood with its thorns… Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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When a friend cancels at the last minute, Miho finds herself struggling to find a temporary carer for her senile mother. As she drives through the snow with her mother in the back-seat, Miho attempts to reconnect with her estranged brother in a desperate attempt to keep her plans alive. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - International Competition

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Three friends embark on a new adventure in a strange town, but when a manipulative new member joins their gang their loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Winner, Best British Short Animation

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Exploring the legacy of famous African samurai warrior, Yasuke, whose story is told through the eyes of a young Japanese woman living in the UK.

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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.