Projects in categories: Fiction

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A psychedelic ambient horror/thriller. Joe returns home from a mysterious absence to discover his wife has taken in an equally mysterious lodger.

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Set entirely inside a shopping centre, SYSTEM follows the interactions between two sisters; one anxious about her personal safety, the other concerned with the invisible threat of infection. The sterile atmosphere of the environment quickly becomes menacing as the women’s personal safety systems begin to fail.

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A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has a few moments to figure out how he got there.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Frank's had enough. A spirit medium whose unique method of channeling the dead is putting his own life at risk. He wants out. But others, in this world and the next, have plans of their own. Part body horror, part crime thriller, part ghost story, 'The Stomach' is a unique tale of supernatural Noir.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Thrill Strand

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A dark tale of Love and Dismemberment.
Exploring the many intricacies of love and hate and how the two can be intertwined. Written and directed by Joe Bichard. The film also includes the vocal talents of Matt King (aka Super Hans from 'Peepshow') and immense sound design by Oswald Skillbard.

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Returning to the island she left eight years earlier, young Mairi plans just to attend a funeral and then go back to her job in the city. But she forgot about the "bannan" - the family and emotional ties that bind her to her birthplace. Staying on to care for her beloved grandmother, Mairi gets drawn ever closer towards a confrontation with the father who never accepted her.
A feature-length Gaelic-language pilot for the 2014 BBC ALBA drama series 'Bannan'.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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When Moore Street market-trader Agnes Brown finds her livelihood under threat from a ruthless developer, she and her family embark on a campaign to save her stall, aided as only the Browns will be by a motley troop of blind trainee Ninjas, an alcoholic solicitor, and a barrister with Tourettes Syndrome.

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Set among the gangland clans and firms of South East London, and centring on Mitch, a devoted husband and father who puts his gang back together after his old friend and mentor is beaten up and left to die.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Intimate drama about a man who tries to connect with his dead boyfriend’s immigrant mother.

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On 8th February 2000 at Feltham Young Offenders Institute, Robert Stewart, a known violent racist, was placed in a cell with Zahid Mubarek, eventually leading to Mubarek's murder 6 weeks later.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Michael Doyle is an anti-hero for our times: a natural predator and a complex mix of high-functioning addict and corrupt police officer, always one step ahead of the law. As an influx of ruthless, power-hungry Albanian gangsters makes its bloody mark on London's criminal landscape, Michael's once assured grip starts to fail and his self-destructive behaviour begins to consume him.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere