Projects in categories: Fiction

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Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were five years old, so they couldn't possibly be right for one another...or could they? When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies. Rome Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Burnsworth, Lancashire is a shithole. And best friends John and Matt want more from life than just the prospect of a dead-end factory job in their small northern town. They find their horizons opened up by the discovery of black American soul music and the British Northern Soul dance scene. They dream of going to America to find the soul record which will make them big DJs on the scene. But the intensity of their rivalry changes their lives forever.

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Retired couple Leonard (Richard Johnson) and Maria (Gemma Jones) still live in the rambling Cumbrian cottage where they’ve spent much of their 40-year marriage. But this family home has turned into a mausoleum to their loving but eccentric relationship, crammed full of junk and overrun with mice. Confined to the living-room couch, Leonard is growing irascible, while the long-suffering Maria struggles with his increasingly wayward demands. Their middle-aged son Daniel (Daniel Cerqueira) arrives from London determined to take charge, but the old family patterns are soon reasserting themselves as Leonard and Marie resist his efforts to help. London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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When Lily O'Connor, a witty, sexy, searingly defiant Northerner with temporal lobe epilepsy and a traumatic past finds out that the brother she's long thought dead could still be alive, she risks her life to go in search of him. An extraordinary hallucinatory journey, an "Alice In Wonderland" story for the modern day. London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Two young exiles from another place in time... Seven young adults caught up in modern society. Their worlds collide with a burden of destiny and an obligation by fate....

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An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with them. London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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War Book is a chilling chamber-piece set in the political back-rooms of London, depicting the government’s struggle to decide an appropriate course of action in light of a devastating nuclear attack… London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - Vera, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother’s brilliant friend Roland Leighton. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front Vera realises she cannot sit idly by, so she volunteers as a nurse and sets off for France. London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Inspired by a true story about an outbreak of mass hysteria in a girls' high school in England in the 1960s, 'The Falling' tells the story of Louise, the troubled girl at the centre of a mysterious fainting epidemic, who is determined to find out the cause of the illness spreading through her school. London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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A double-decker bus weaves through London’s rain-glistened, near-deserted night streets. Gradually we meet the people onboard, of all different ages and nationalities: competitive work colleagues and jaded partners; loud drunks and cheeky fare dodgers; a long-suffering driver and random strangers who strike up the unlikeliest of conversations. London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Seven years on from the events of 'Monsters', the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide and two soldiers have to embark on a life-changing mission through the dark heart of monster territory. London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. Based on the novel by Andy Mulligan. Rome Film Festival 2014 - World premiere