Projects in categories: Fiction

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Based on true events. The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.

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Ryan has recently returned from combat duty in Afghanistan and seeks out an old friend.

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The Watcher Self is a deeply unsettling psychosexual chiller written and directed by Matt Cruse about one woman’s descent into hell.
Cora (Karen French) begins her day facing the consequences of a nightmare. Struggling to maintain a normal routine, she engages in a series of emotionally detached encounters and experiences a confusing psychological connection with the strange and elusive Van (Julian Shaw). Then echoes from the past threaten to derail her tenuous state of mind, and Cora becomes increasingly dislocated from her surroundings. Is she going insane, or is it something else? The Watcher Self is about what remains when the layers of sanity are gradually stripped away... and what may or may not be real.

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As simple-minded John's mother embraces the world of internet dating he finds himself pressured to get out and develop relationships himself. A threatening encounter leaves John desparately in search for romance in order to 'fit in' with the lads from the pub, leaving devastating results of John's frantic actions.

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Because of writing is the story of an heroin addict writer lost in the maze of his own mind, haunted in the dark by hallucinations, Illusions and a mysterious presence. His life is torn between a strong love for a prostitute, his wife's contempt and the passion for writing.

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Doorways is a story about a week in the life of two English Pub Doormen, one who is innocently on a path to find his masculinity, the other holds a dark secret and is on the edge of losing his mind.

Inspired by our writer ‘working the doors’ for over 10 years, Doorways is a story about Craig, a life-long bouncer, it’s all he knows. He is also on a path of self-destruction and years of abuse are coming back to haunt him in a week from hell. He is questioning his own sanity and own reality. The last thing he needs to be is a student.

The Student is on a path of self-discovery. He is searching for his masculinity. But he will find many answers to questions he didn’t need to know; defining who he is as a man as Craig takes him on a ride that eventually descends into the depths of human depravity.

Will Craig break him? or will he rescue Craig’s heart?

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When drought threatens to wipe out his clan, a young Shaman sets out on an ardous journey in search of a spiritual leader he believes he can bring forth rain. He meets a mysterious monk who is in search of an ultimate spiritual revelation.

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A veteran secret agent takes a young upstart under his wing.

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'Love Is All' is a creative collaboration between director Kim Longinotto and musician Richard Hawley, taking us on a romantic journey from the first screen kiss to the present day using spell-binding archive to explore how we made love in a century of unprecedented social upheaval.
aka 'Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship'
Göteborg Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A contemporary and chilling British ghost story set in Yorkshire. When renovation expert Meg Hamilton (Olivia Williams) moves with her husband (Matthew Modine) and children into a Victorian Estate and starts to restore it to its former glory, the house itself seems to slowly come to life, fired by the ghosts of the original owners.

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When Eilis is given the opportunity to emigrate to New York she jumps at the chance for a better life, even if it means leaving her family and home. Desperately homesick at first, Eilis soon finds romance in Brooklyn, but when a family emergency forces her back to Ireland, she finds herself torn between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special Presentations

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After a freak meteor storm turns Bob into a Superhero he must face his greatest challenge: going on his first date in six years.