Projects in categories: Fiction

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Shot in contemporary London, this powerful thriller sharply exposes a couple's relationship when their 5 yr old daughter is kidnapped, risking everything in their chase to find her.

From the depth of violence a stranger comes looking for revenge, uncovering a dark past and finding redemption.

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A coming of age drama about friends torn apart by choices, set in London's fast-paced clubland.

Everywhere and Nowhere follows the journey of a young man, Ash, navigating through the minefield of strict family life and secret liaisons over a roller-coaster of a weekend to gain his ultimate dream of becoming a club DJ.

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James believes he will lose his job if he can't find a vital part of his work uniform. The search unearths more than just his belt.

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Lance and Reuben are two 12-year-old outsiders in need of a friend. Over the course of a school cross-country race they come to the realisation that at the very least they have each other.

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F tells the harrowing story of Robert Anderson. A burned-out alcoholic, world-weary, English teacher, who must now face his most terrifying demons' school children.

Set in a huge UK comprehensive school after lessons have finished for the day. A place of learning during the daytime, becomes a vast and deserted labyrinthine nightmare of endless corridors, empty classrooms, woodwork rooms, gyms, welding rooms, motor pool shops, canteens, photographic darkrooms, art studios and sports halls.

The school comes under relentless attack from a group of blood thirsty 'hoodies', intent on only one thing, to spread terror. Anderson must fight off these brutal killers, and his deepest fears, in a desperate battle for the survival of his pupils, fellow teachers and those he holds most dear.

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A film about love, life and speed dating set in Glasgow, Scotland that will prove just three minutes with a complete stranger can change your life forever.

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On a boating holiday, a honeymoon couple employ a local to help them navigate the West Midland canals. Dick and Harry Bridges are newly married and Dick has organised their honeymoon getaway as a do-it-yourself cruise on a West Midland backwater canal.

Harry, a girl of means, is crestfallen at the cheapness of Dick's honeymoon plans but soon starts to like the carefree world of canal life when Dick employs Tom, a local pikey, to help steer them through the gates and locks.

Meanwhile, Dick has employed Sunshine an incompetent hit-man to kill his wife so he can collect on her life insurance, but the presence of Tom complicates Sunshine's attempts to do away with her.

As the days stretch and the boat winds its way through the backwaters of Wolverhampton and Birmingham, Sunshine's attempts and Dick's frustration at his failure, make Tom and Harry suspect that something untoward is going on. A British comedy in the Ealing style, Fingers in the Water is set in the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands on a boat that's going nowhere.

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Lucy thinks her brother is broken. His obsessive arrangements of thimbles prove it. Lucy thinks he should be fixed, but not in the way she imagines...

Based on the directors personal experience of growing-up with an autistic brother, Fixing Luka is a tale of hope, determination and acceptance.

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There are three things in John's life - betting, betting and betting. Betting rules John's life in more ways than any 'normal' person can ever imagine. For John it's an obsession. His wife, Helen, puts up with it because she loves him and she loves the high of a big win, so long as he's honest with her. When female bookie, Stan, offers John and his mates outrageous bets with dangerous odds events start spiralling out of control as they dig themselves deeper into her pockets. Will John lose his marriage, could he lose his life?

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A burger lover faces a moral dilemma. He wants to eat a massive cheese burger but it is National Vegetarian Week and all the pro-vegetarian programmes are stirring pangs of guilt. He watches as two TV hosts - one pro meat eating and one pro vegetarian debate the issue.

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A visual short story of how two people meet unexpectedly. The story of a girl and a boy who's romantic encounter is born in a sunny day full of flowers. An almost forgotten way of flirting.

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Generation Britpop is Matthew J Gunn's short festival film, a short spin off from his proposed Britpop TV Serial. Britpop explodes into the British conscience summer of 1994. As group of students prepare to move away from home for the first time, they film video blogs of themselves the day before they leave to University.

Loner Matt wants to escape the one horse town he grew up in, innocent Linda is haunted by her past actions, Steve's confused to who the mirror says he is, an angry James calls for 'surf up' and artist Marie dances naked across the city.