It’s 1972, and Fred Dobbs is preparing for the Schoolboy Boxing Championships. His trainer, who also happens to be his father, thinks he’s the next great white hope. Two years of training have led up to this climatic night. There’s just one problem.
Fred can’t box.
In the same year Gustavo White, a Cuban boxing legend prepares for the biggest fight of his life at the Munich Olympics. Every last second of his 25 years earth have been leading up to this challenge – he is widely tipped to take gold .
He doesn’t.
Adrift and alone, the two men’s paths cross almost 40 years later. Fred is an executive at a debt recovery firm who's on his way out; his aggressive younger boss thinks he’s past it and demotes him to the call centre. Gustavo has turned his back on boxing – far from home, with his boxing club bankrupt and repossessed, he scratches a living as a gardener.
Fred is forced to participate in a work yuppie boxing event, Gus agrees to train him and both men are thrown back into the boxing fray for what will be the most important fight of their lives.
When Criticism of faith and the freedom to offend is outlawed by the Politically Correct Militia. Bella and her gang of cyber punks push Darwinism door to door. But with violent agnostic thugs in the street, and the terrorist "Atheist Revolutionary Army" attacking the liberal establishment. Bella and her friends are driven underground into a dark fetish existence, where the future and the past collide, allegiances are strained, and old scores must be settled. In this frighteningly bizarre and surreal feature film. Full on gothsploitation This is a truly independent film. Created by a bunch of friends about freedom of expression when all around us freedoms are being suppressed by those who claim to be offended.
When Tom (Stanley Weber), a struggling publisher,discovers his only successful author, Jane, (Karen Gillan), is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished.
With her new found success, she’s become too damn happy and she can't write when she's happy. With the help of his friend Roddy, Tom plans a series of misery inducing events in an effort to make Jane unhappy enough to get her writing again.The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he is in love with her...
Ali stands out. He’s a soldier in uniform in a busy train station. He’s also one of the few British Muslims in the Armed Forces. Returning home from Afghanistan unexpectedly, he slowly adjusts to the suburban English surroundings and faces renewed tensions from his family and community.
On the edge of a vast city, two sisters spend their lives trying to protect a dangerous secret. Nina has a strange neurological condition that causes devastation whenever she feels happiness. While she has become addicted to the unbelievable high it provides, Tash struggles to keep them both together.
As a film star, Nick Holcomb is the “whole package”: handsome, charming, pure box office gold. Successful at avoiding romantic entanglements, Nick finds his perfect world capsized by the surprising passions of young actress.
Three boys, two grow, one tries. Based on a thousand true stories, The Lost Choices studies the effects of abuse in several forms with three lives. Without passing judgement, the film explores the destructive relationships between peers and the family.
Once released from serving time in his adulthood, one boy aims to rehabilitate into soceity. Fighting personal problems, severe phobias, panic, depression, he finds comfort in an unlikely attraction and a persistent mentor.
Letting a drug-habit spiral out of control, one boy loses grasp with reality and, once coupled with a family tragedy, channels his drug-induced fears into aggression, with only one target on his mind.
Vying for love and acceptance but never gaining either it seems, one boy finally takes control over his life.
Two couples, who have been close friends for years, face several traumas out of their control. The one couple, Meryl and Mike, are recovering from their son's death and their inability to communicate. The second couple, Joanna and Tim, are trying to conceive their first child, after several failed attempts. Through the span of several weeks, the couples contrast one another, quickly developing an intimate study of human nature.
A year in the life of Owen McBride as he tries, against the odds, to adjust to the 21st century and leave his roots behind. A tale of conflict between the world of the Gypsy and the world of the Gorgio (settled people).
