Projects in categories: Fiction

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Several years after the suicide of a longtime girlfriend, David is in a new relationship. However, a chance encounter with the dead woman’s sister raises complex questions about just how complicit he was in her death.

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Downfall follows Rob, a recovering car crash victim who has developed special abilities since his near-fatal underwater car accident. He goes to see an old friend, Nick but ends up seeing more than he would of wished for...

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Jimmy hates musicals. When Eugenius – the cosmically charged, all-singing, all-dancing musical Godfather – tap dances into Jimmy’s tedium, Jimmy is swept off to a magical theatre realm and told he is destined to become the Greatest Musical Star of all time!

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The Devil’s Plantation is a haunting psychogeographic journey into the past; a search for the magic in ordinary places. In the 1980s archaeologist Harry Bell came to believe that Glasgow - a city built and re-built on over centuries - was laid out to a hidden design. For years he investigated the lost corners and invisible history of the landscape, plotting his 'Secret Geometry'. Unknown to Harry, psychiatric patient Mary Ross also wandered the city, visiting many of the same significant places. Her medical case file reveals a poignant quest to understand her troubled past and present. The Devil's Plantation unites the lives of these two strangers. By retracing their steps to complete the work Harry left unfinished at the time of his death, The Devil's Plantation tells a timeless story of how we all live.

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A reclusive brother and sister are forced to take drastic action when their estranged father returns, threatening to sell the farm they have worked hard for years to maintain.

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A pitch-black comedy about Minnie the oddball owner of a Euthanasia Centre and her desperate attempts to keep it from closing.

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High on top of a building a man is going to jump to his death. His suicide starts a chain of events that impacts on several of the Town's peoples lives. Follow the Town's folk as we meet dodgy nightclub owners, a murderous couple on the hunt for a new home, a guilty lady, and a hit man with conscience.

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Lucky is a small time criminal and he's happy just getting by until he agrees to look after some counterfeit money for a friend who is in a bit of trouble with the law. Two months go by without a word from him so Lucky burns the 'funny money' to avoid problems for himself. The resulting fire means a trip to the emergency room where he meets Bridget and his charm has her agreeing to go out with him. Their date goes well until the end when two hoods bundle him into the back of their car. It appears that they had bought the 'funny money' from Lucky's friend and they want it back - all £150,000 or Lucky will end up like his friend. Lucky needs to score big so he teams up with an old mate who is planning a big casino heist with a couple of other gangsters who's day job is collecting protection money for 'Mr Big'. The are looking to earn a bit of money 'on the side'. The heist goes almost according to plan but with one small problem - there's minimal cash and the rest is in bonds. It all starts to go wrong immediately. A prostitute who they have hired steals the bonds and the getaway car is stolen. Worse is yet to come. The two gangsters have not done their homework and they've actually just robbed 'Mr Big's casino. Their only chance to avoid their boss's severe retribution is to get the stuff back.

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Seeking a better life, Oscar Ramirez and his family decide to move from the poverty stricken rice fields of the Northern Philippine mountain ranges and journey towards the capital mega city of Metro Manila. Upon arriving in the big city, it isn't long before they fall foul to various city inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival. Oscar lands a job as a driver for an armored truck company and is befriended by Ong, his senior officer. It soon becomes apparent that Ong has been waiting for the arrival of someone just like Oscar for some time. A few simple acts of kindness from Ong place Oscar in his debt; a debt that leads to blackmail as Ong forces Oscar to help him in a robbery of the company they both work for.

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At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.

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Comedy following the antics of the infamous Alan Partridge, a local radio DJ in Norwich.

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In the industrial hinterland of England, Benjamin encounters a girl. Arcadian and beautiful, she offers escape from his lonely, repetitive life. But is she human? And does she even exist? Arterial is a short fantasy film inspired by the John Keats poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci.