Projects in categories: Fiction

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In three acts, three rooms, and three shots, a housewarming party spirals out of control when the host couple are sucked into a bout of light-hearted arm wrestling.

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Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end. When David Richmond, a progressive young minister, arrives in Gladbury, the villagers discover a new formula for miracles: good deeds and acts of kindness. While David's quest to modernize Gladbury sets him at odds with the old world candlemaker, he finds an unlikely ally in the lovely skeptic, Emily Barstow. Now, the fiery candlemaker must fight to preserve the legacy of the Christmas Candle. But when the candle goes missing, the miraculous and human collide in the most astonishing Christmas the village of Gladbury has ever seen.

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Two wives and two soldiers divided by war discuss the horror of the conflict. This heightened short form drama utilises poetic language to open dialogue with its audience concerning the transience of life and the consequences of a fictional war on British soil.

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A couple in their forties receive a bizarre phone call from the nursing home where the woman's mother resides.They decide to visit her and set off on what will become a metaphysical journey along the south coast of England to meet their innermost fears and to be seized by them.

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The feature debut of award-winning filmmaker Oliver Harrison, The Fallen Word is a dark 'fairy-tale' - a poetic, surrealistic fantasy. Under the brutal rule of a new religious sect, art, music and free speech have been outlawed; the poets are the last line of resistance. These wordsmiths have formed themselves into gangs and - in verbal duels - battle for supremacy. This is a tale of love lost and found, of friendship and betrayal and of the magical power of language and words.

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During the Cornish daffodil harvest Anglican priest Rebecca Ashton forms a volatile friendship with migrant worker Radka Dimitrova.

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The Guest is a modern dark fable starring Olivia Williams (Rushmore, Sixth Sense, An Education) and scored by Tom Hobden of Noah and the Whale. A graduate, Matthieu, turns up to his old professor's dinner party to discover he is the only guest ... apart from Marguerite the professor's wife.

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In London's bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient, rather hungry corpse meets a pigeon.

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A biopic of the club and property mogul Paul Raymond who, along with his porn business, amassed a fortune of billions.

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With an impoverished world plunged into a Cold War with a new enemy, Britain’s Ministry of Defence is on the brink of developing a game-changing weapon. Lead scientist Vincent McCarthy provides the answer with his creation, ‘The Machine’- an android with unrivalled physical and processing skills. When a programming glitch causes an early prototype to destroy his lab, McCarthy enlists artificial intelligence expert Ava to help him harness the full potential of a truly conscious fighting machine.

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A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

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The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about 14-year-old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school, and outsiders in their own community, the boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrapman, and begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses and Arbor has a business brain and a way with words – they make a good team. But when Arbor begins to emulate Kitten by becoming greedy and exploitative, tensions build, leading to a tragic event which transforms them all irrevocably.