Projects in categories: Fiction

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The Conundrum being, Do I live life my way or do I live life their way? The start of a new dawn finds David Yohannes Reeves asking himself this very question. It is a situation that requires some thought. Day to day life often thrusts us into precarious positions; that is confrontations with unpleasant despicable people, encountering behaviour that is selfish or deliberately harmful. No matter how seemingly inconsequential and trivial this negative act is, it should be responded too. Surely? But then again, probably not. Is it really worth exacerbating this awkward and possibly stressful situation further that it might escalate into full-blown violence? Again, probably not. But never to act to correct what is wrong? Is that right too? This is the conundrum. The film is the statement. Be concerned; be concerned by a man wearing fucking antlers.

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Vigilante is a dark and satirical mockumentary that follows one member of a village group as he sets out to eradicate crime and anti social behaviour. This compelling short interrogates our understanding of crime and punishment, asking to what lengths should we, and would we, go to make our community a better place.

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Alarm salesman Vic Timms heads for a two-day motivational sales course entitled Win Only Win in the hope that the programme will help turn his fortunes around. God - operating under the name Godfrey - decides to manipulate fate and throw Vic into the path of serial man-eater Mary Macdallen. It's a risky strategy and despite Godfrey's divine intervention, love doesn't blossom as expected.

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Amy lives on an island off the coast of Scotland where not a lot happens but the good news is that she is leaving for the big city and university. She gets a camcorder and begins documenting her new life with new friends. She soon befriends the other girls in her halls and they have a lot of fun together. She becomes particularly close to Clare who seems to have some dark secrets in her past and only trusts Amy. The relationships between the girls develop and intensify and Amy starts to change in ways she did not expect. Clare persuades Amy to play pranks on one of the other girls in the flat, but as Clare's methods become more extreme Amy starts to doubt the sanity of her new friend. There will be blood, seduction, murder and terror before Amy finally has to confront her friend.

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Constantly watched by the cafe owner, Mike and Lucy discuss how they are going to deal with Mad Dog's gang. A car of armed thugs moves ever closer to them. Arriving with a weapon, the cafe owner freaks out, and is not reassured to find out that they are Police.

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Cinedrome is a mockumentary about a fictitious disease, cinedrome. After exposure to certain films, sufferers become infected by aspects of these films. In this way, film is able to infect audience members. Marie has 'lost her continuity', Godfrey suffers from 'soundtracki-itis' and Chris has contracted 'animania'.

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‘City of Dreamers’ delves into the music scene of Brighton to tell the story of a young girl on a journey to find herself. Rose is an aspiring musician who moves to Brighton, keen to forget the world she has left behind, and immerse herself into the vibrant and creative cultures of her new City. Through meeting new people, and inspired by her new surroundings, Rose strives on the path of self-discovery to reveal who she is, and who she wants to become. ‘City of Dreamers’ is the heartwarming tale of someone who chases their dreams of love, friendship and music, never knowing where they could lead.

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On Paradise Island the Crab family struggles to survives as father turns into a recluse and refuses to go fishing.

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In a post-apocalyptic world, one man wanders the derelict buildings until he comes across one grand building still in tact. He enters but upon doing so he comes across another man's personal treasure. A tale of two men and their fight to elude dystopia.

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A black comedy, Luca, an Italian fish out of water must do a hit for real to please his beautiful, crazy wife Beatrice... can he really do it or will a dog, a farmer and the dangerous English countryside get in his way. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1969978/ http://vimeo.com/34285684 http://www.fadeupfilms.com

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'Frank' is a black comedy about a man who just doesn't fit in. He's fallen between the cracks he is always trying to avoid. We join him on his personal journey to hell and back, accompanied by a neurotic and opinionated couple of corpses and the map reader of his life and only friend, a young girl called Sasha.

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Based on the life of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, Fulll Firearms presents the story of Imelda, a woman haunted by the victims of the guns sold in her father’s company. She uses her inheritance to work with an architect who builds a house for these ghosts. When a group of people squat her half finished building Imelda is convinced that they are the ghosts that she expected. The narrative touches upon themes of displacement and storytelling, and stands in the tradition of melodrama. The characters find themselves constantly having to adjust their expectations of each other so that they might be able to communicate within each other’s logic. In her films, Emily Wardill creates situations that examine conditions of precarity in society and how these affect people’s relationships with each other. Her films are fostered by improvisations and workshop sessions, that are set up by the artist to develop themes and characters in a collaborative manner. “The house in the film produces an echo, because those who occupy it articulate their voices in relation to the making and writing of a history. Tracing the echoes of actions through the production of social spaces does not remain solely within the diegesis of the film. Instead, it extends to the exchange initiated by Wardill with her collaborators as they produce a film together, and also attempt to implicate the viewer in a film that is also a body – one that is constantly living and growing.” - Jacob Korczynski, 2011