Projects in categories: Fiction

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Wandering loner Ray tries to track down his estranged ex-partner and teenage daughter so his dying father can see her one last time. Comedy ensues when, disguised in an outfit he sought from a charity clothing bank, realises his daughter, and her mother, have built a new life with his former PE teacher.

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The last hour of Faustus. Adapted from: 'The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe

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A man stuck in his endless loneliness wanders in a post-apocalyptic world... Only to discover he is not alone.

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Gloucestershire, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world’s first smallpox vaccine.

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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