Projects in categories: Fiction

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12-year-old Adam finds his 31-year old, superhero obsessed brother with learning difficulties a nightmare – until he sees a chance to use him to gain friends.

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A cold and isolated transgender sex worker takes in a young girl who has been abandoned by her mother, and her life is thrown into question.

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A modern day film noir set in London. Newly arrived in the UK, a young African Man's attempts to become British takes an unexpected turn. A poignant story that takes a fresh look at migration using humour, suspense and a pinch of magic realism.
Starring Kierston Wareing, Emeka Sesay.

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The Cake Maker is a gangster-thriller centred around one woman, Roxy, and the men in her life. Matt bakes for his Boss, nightclub owner Frank, and occasionally works as a lookout on the street. Roxy is a prostitute who does a runner after a “business disagreement”.

The Boss wants her found and sends Rick, his right hand man, to do the searching with henchmen Aristotle and Max in tow. None of the lookouts have seen her, it’s as if she’s vanished. Everyone’s looking for Roxy whilst Matt keeps his head down and Roxy hidden in his flat.

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Tupelo, Mississippi, 1946. To celebrate his eleventh birthday, a young boy selects his gift - little knowing that his choice will change the world.

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A mentally unstable mother brings her daughters to a remote bungalow her aunt has bequeathed her. In her delusion she chains them up for their own safety. When she takes an overdose by mistake,what will become of the girls as no-one knows of their whereabouts.

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Doug and Abi are taking their three children on a trip to Scotland for a big family gathering. They are in the midst of a difficult divorce, and have asked the kids to keep it a secret from their extended family. But as the inevitable feuds kick in, a completely unexpected turn of events involving the children causes further tensions to rise to the surface. And with the repercussions that ensue - hilarious and emotional in equal measure - the family are forced to put aside their differences and work together or else risk losing what they hold most dear.

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A teenage boy discovers his unruly neighbour is really a disgraced rock god who "died" eight years ago owing a fortune in unpaid tax. The boy agrees not to reveal his secret on condition that he teaches him the dark arts of rock guitar.
Berlin International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Adam has lived a rootless existence since his family’s farm was destroyed by the Foot & Mouth epidemic of 2001. His life imploded and he abandoned his family after a single devastating incident. He has spent the years since on the nomadic fringes of British society, cycling through transitory jobs and transitory relationships, adrift from his family and past. When his younger brother Aiden reaches out to him to announce the birth of his first child – Adam is about to become an uncle – there is an ultimatum attached: come home now, or never come home again.
Adam embarks on a journey home that is at once tortured and exhilarating, a panoramic tour through the broken and beautiful margins of Britain. As eruptions from his secret past begin to emerge, Adam attempts to break free from a self-imposed exile that must now end before it swallows him for good.
Venice Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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In Dark Ages Britain young Saxon farmer Wade and his brother Atelic are captured by an extremist faction of the Viking forces called “The Berserkers”. They are thrown into a sacrificial and barbaric manhunt in the name of Odin.

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A female landscape gardener is awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versailles, a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very centre of the court of King Louis XIV. Can she overcome the challenges of this new and complex world, and the ghosts of her own past tragedy, to secure a future with the man she loves?
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.