Projects in categories: Fiction

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When Shelly meets Rachel, two dysfunctional girls from radically opposed backgrounds set off on a collision course that will leave one of them shattered, the other re-born. Set in the forsaken wastelands of Cheshire's little-seen urban overspill, 'The Violators' is a meditation on the meaning of home, and the potency and fragility of young girls' sexuality.

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Lisa and Claire, a pair of on-the-run sisters assume the identities of poets and find refuge at a poetry/camping weekend in the Welsh Black Mountains. They meet another poet who comes between them. The culmination of director Jamie Adams's improvised ‘Modern Romance Trilogy’ alongside 'Benny & Jolene' and 'A Wonderful Christmas Time' Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A gritty urban drama set in Manchester's Moss Side area.

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For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South UK bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold War, territories were respected out of the necessity to avoid apocalypse, with each side covertly keeping tabs on the other’s capability. Such a precarious false harmony could not last forever. Now someone has crossed the line, and there’s no going back. An Illicit love affair smolders, breaking taboo and threatening catastrophe at the smallest mistake. It is a romance of purest, unadulterated love, yet so forbidden that it’s discovery would wreak unbridled carnage. Edinburgh International Film Festival - World premiere

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Following a man, Slater as he pursues Nadia, the woman he loves through a series of parallel lives. An obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. The organisation BRAND NEW-U identifies networks of Identicals and helps their clients make a life upgrade: leaving behind all their problems and relocating to a brand new life. But errors can occur and a brand new life can cost more than expected.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the likes... A romantic social media satire for the online age. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Laugh Strand

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To the outside world looking in, Jack’s not well. Brooding, disheveled, troubled, he’s been in and out of secure units all of his young life, had every drug they can think of, every treatment they can throw at him but nothing seems to work. Not because he doesn’t want it to, there’s nothing he’d like more than to live a normal life and be left alone. But as far as Jack is concerned there’s nothing wrong with him, it’s them - the dead - they’re the ones who won’t leave him alone. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Residents of a fictional Welsh community share stories and poems of their life in their seaside town. An adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ much loved classic of modern British poetry. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Grizzled cop Frank Grieves, struggles to keep his family together against a futuristic backdrop where recreational drugs are legal. When he delves too deeply into a case involving an unidentified corpse, he finds himself stifled by powerful government organisations. Soon caught up in a dangerous conspiracy Grieves finds that drug legalisation comes at a deadly price. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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When an encounter with the swinging scene has an unexpected impact on David's impotence, Alice thinks she might have found the solution to all their problems, but the poly-amorous world is a difficult place for a love story to flourish. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.

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Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food passed the sell-by date. He journeys south from Scotland, on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere