Projects in categories: Fiction

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A cautionary tale of three characters whose DIY projects have got out of hand. Each has bought a landlocked craft in varying degrees of dilapidation. Will they break out of the boat 'graveyard' or remain on land, their vessels an alternative shed; a place for dreaming with no destination necessary?

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Carl (13) is a child in foster care, growing up is difficult enough but he has no proper family life. After many moves he arrives, settles in and is happy at his new foster home. Suddenly the same old problem crops up. How can he stop it ever happening again?

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Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris,
Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love.

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Colour Candy is a hard hitting factual drama inspired by true events surrounding gun crime and gang culture in Manchester‘s tough Moss Side.

Colour Candy powerfully reflects the devastating consequences surrounding this way of life. Colour Candy’s purpose is to highlight the cause and effects relating to these issues and also intends to give the viewer an understanding as to why they should not succumb to gang culture or claim ignorance to it.

Colour Candy is dedicated to the many families and children who have been affected by knife, gun and gang crime.

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COPIER is the story of teenager STACEY, a gifted inventor who finds a discarded photocopier and accidentally invents a 3D copier that can make exact copies of absolutely anything, including people.

She realises it might give her the solution to the tough business of growing up in a broken home.

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Curtains is a dark comedy set in Great Yarmouth and tells the story of Barry Shepherd, a worn out Punch and Judy man. After 50 years working the wooden dolls, it's time for a splashy puppet finish, an adieu.
 
As things begin to fall apart around him, Barry's life becomes increasingly pervaded by the reality of his tawdry and violent profession. Drinking and cursing his way unrepentantly onwards, he continues with the show. Even as it threatens to destroy him and take his soul.

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Denizen Reserves is about a group of young vigilantes who have gathered to revolt against their rich and influential parents. The film takes place during the group's demise and is mostly told through flashbacks. The final scenes see the last two remaining members of the group fighting each other.

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London: The not too distant future. Newgen Industries, a leading pharmaceutical company, is trying to placate a media uproar. Its new legal performance enhancer, RAK-295, has met with spectacular failure during testing, causing severe physical and allergic reactions in all 30,000 of its test subjects, except one - Angela Mills.

Angela, herself, is pregnant and is making arrangements of her own to leave a city full of woe and bad memories.

With Angela being the only person not to report any type of reaction to the testing, Dr. Brooke (head of Newgen) understands that Angela may hold the key to solving this disaster and enlists Cole, the head of security, to find her and bring her in for examination.

But Cole, a hardened ex-mercenary wants out from committing crimes to solve Newgen's problems, and has just handed in his resignation to Peter White, the CEO.

His timing couldn’t be worse. A violent outbreak of a test subject at Newgen's labs reveals that the drug has far more catastrophic consequences than anyone could have imagined, claiming life of Brooke and White in the process. And it's spreading. During the struggle Cole is also bitten, his fate sealed.

Or is it?

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Shot in a week by a lone British woman filmmaker but based on a year's research, this funny, moving Grey Gardens/Maysles Brothers style cinema verite doc contrasts the lives of Ian and Robin, two alcoholic expats (one British, one Dutch) living in a squat next to millionaire yachts, with the glamour of Cannes Film Festival.

Life mirrors art as the filmmaker accidentally becomes homeless during shooting and turns the camera on herself. Shows the dark side of British expat life in luxury sunny destinations.

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Alone and tangled in an ancient washing line, a decrepit Deirdre is forced to confront a lifetime of woe and regret. As the sun sets and a bitter cold sweeps in, she is assailed by fragments of a past peppered with indignant lovers, resentful friends, and a neglectful family.

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Rift Valley, Kenya. Priscilla, 78, raises several of her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Education is what she believes all of them should have, but a lack of money means not all can continue with it.

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Feeder - A short film that will make you feel sick.

We want it. We buy it. We eat it. We swallow it down whole. But what does our body see when we stick it in our mouth?

Filmed entirely from inside the mouth, Feeder tells a story, a simple story of excess over the course of a single day, without characters, locations or dialogue.