Projects in categories: Fiction

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A young English couple bond with an enigmatic Russian businessman after a chance encounter on holiday. What they don’t know is that he is a gangster, seeking to defect to the British secret service before his rivals have a chance to murder him, and he has chosen them as his lifeline. The couple’s recruitment is followed by a deadly chase, which takes them from the souks of Marrakech to London, to the French Open Final in Paris and finally to a thrilling climax in the Swiss Alps. Official Selection San Francisco International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A young man meets the worn voice of a fading city under the lights of a London sex shop.

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The story of a lonely but upbeat girl called Shelby who rides the local buses in an attempt to keep warm and find meaningful connections with her fellow passengers - in a world that all too often looks the other way. A sensitive look at those in the community who are vulnerable and marginalised. Highlighting that their lives, like those of all of us, are essentially the result of many factors beyond our control rather than any personal action.

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All's fair in love and pranks. Davina and Mark are a couple, locked in a prank war. Will they or their relationship survive the final credits?

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Two Feet Tall is a modern-day fairy-tale of empowerment - at ground-level. We follow a week-in-the-life of a downtrodden office worker - entirely from the perspective of her feet - and discover that sometimes confidence is a little lift in the sole...

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Cosmo, a South African pianist falls in love with Sakeena, a British Muslim ballerina, who is being forced into an arranged marriage by her abusive radicalised Uncle Jehandar. Through their struggle, Cosmo tries to show that the power of love is far more important than the love for power. Cosmo seems like the perfect choice for Sakeena, but he is running away from a dark past which catches up with him as he tries to prove his love for Sakeena. Only ever wanting true happiness, the pair begin to fight for their freedom to love each other, but this leads to her family discovering the truth about their relationship. Feeling betrayed, her Uncle Jehandar arranges an honour killing and promises her family that she will never step a foot out line once he's finished with her.

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Nestled on its own in the burnt brown hills of Southern Spain is a stunning modern villa with a refreshingly blue swimming pool. “El Cortijo” is the luxurious home of an ageing rock star in his early 60s and his much younger, very beautiful wife. Bill, the wild haired rock star and Isabelle are very much in love, but beneath the perfect surface of their lives, dark secrets lurk. Into this paradise comes Lucas, a dangerous ex-lover hell bent on revenge. His aim: to destroy their marriage and blackmail her into returning his inheritance - a fortune that his wealthy father had left to Isabelle instead of him. In a mischievous game of cat and mouse, the hunter soon becomes the hunted and Lucas sees his plans utterly destroyed – nothing is what it seems. What unfolds is a dangerous, tangled web of deceit and destruction as he becomes a plaything in their deadly game.

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Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime. Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, Arthur and Marta decide to fight back. They decide to take back what was theirs in the first place. They decide to start robbing banks.

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A struggling New York-based radio journalist whose arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career finds his job is on the line. He decides to fake front line war reports from the comfort of his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in Queens. Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Based on the true story of the eponymous New York heiress who obsessively pursued her dream of becoming a great singer. The film celebrates the human spirit, the power of music and the passion of amateurs everywhere. The voice Florence Foster Jenkins heard in her head was divine, but to the rest of the world it was hilariously awful. At private recitals, her devoted 'husband' and manager, St Clair Bayfield, managed to protect Florence from the truth. But when Florence decided to give her first public concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, St Clair realised he had perhaps bitten off more than he could chew. Belfast Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson. A rare and poignant love story, this is an uplifting biopic of Nina Simone during a turbulent period in the iconic artist's life. Set in France during the 1990s with frequent flashbacks to defining moments in her life and her remarkable and unique music, this film tells the story of a tormented genius who eventually finds love and peace. The legacy of a legend who continues to engage, enthral and inspire audiences around the globe.

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In 2012, the Ivy House pub in Peckham was sold to property developers as part of the ongoing gentrification of south London. The locals opposed it. Unfolding from this scenario, the film weaves verbatim testament into folk operatic form with the Ivy House itself, embodied and imagined as a central character and inhabited by the memories of the generations who have passed through its doors. Sarah Turner films the community’s creative reanimation of the mourned pub through dance, poetry and song... which both records and creates a vision of social possibility... The activism that saved the pub is a metaphor for social and creative agency. This is not just a film about resistance; it is a film that itself refuses categorisation... a triumphant genre-blending documentary which turns community action into an exhilarating participatory opera. (London Film Festival) Public House premiered in the documentary competition at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival and was nominated for the Grierson Award. The film has since been re-edited and remastered in a new version for wider audiences.