Projects in categories: Fiction

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Mal Walker, a reclusive, disillusioned Army veteran, is prompted into action when his only mate mysteriously disappears on a down-at-heel council estate. But as he journeys on his urban quest - encountering a succession of the estate's oddball characters - Mal begins to learn it is not just his friend he's looking for. It is his own humanity. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Four young people flee from London and set up a polyamorous commune in the country- choosing total isolation as an opportunity for an emotional, intellectual, and political hiding place. Strange rules and rituals help to loosen their inhibitions as, fighting cynicism and ghosts from the past, they move towards a deeply unconventional joy. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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I May Be Some Time… is a short animated film about an old, grumpy man, Lawrence, who is forced on a journey to confront his inner self. Throughout the journey he grows younger and in the end of the film he is just a child.

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Held in a remote police station, a mysterious stranger takes over the minds and souls of everyone inside. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Bill is an elderly pianist in his first week at a care home devoid of music. Growing increasingly aware of Bill's passion for music, resident nurse Emma, seeks ways in which she can connect with him and help him to recover his sense of self.

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OUT is a dramatic and sometimes comic story about a mother's reactions to her son coming out as gay in a small town.

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A girl called Jackie, beaten and tied to a chair in a derelict building, must use all of her wits and courage if she hopes to survive the night against three terrifying attackers, who tell her that she'll never see her loved ones again.

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A teenage boxer searching for self-definition gives in to his true colours at the risk of losing everything.

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A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to adult prison where he finally meets his match - a man who also happens to be his father.

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1969. Middle-aged Tubby and Enid, meeting at a reunion of the choir they sang in as children, reconnect with the joy of music and make one last grab at love and happiness.

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The true story of how the life of a retired schoolmaster was utterly changed by the British media's response to his arrest for alleged murder.

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Three intrepid flatmates who purchase a supposedly haunted antique mirror on eBay and set up round the clock cameras in the hopes of capturing evidence of something going bump in the night.