Projects in categories: Fiction

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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.

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It's Jamie's emotional journey through the criminal justice system. A teenager with aggression, attitude and arrogance, makes him the prime suspect. In an enthralling encounter, Jamie finds him self at the scene of a murder, in a frenzy the knife is shoved in his hand making him guilty of course? Can Rosie trust Jamie until the end of the case, or will she collapse under the immense pressure? Will the media realize he was in the wrong place at the wrong time? And will Dan revive his friendship with his best friend? One thing stops any of this becoming apparent, Jamie meets the killer whose destined to end his life

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Fred is a pragmatic vermin hunter in the neglected cityscape, who has to deal with the new developments around him in order to survive. Overnight construction of buildings and the anti-fox bins play havoc with the area, and the fragile way of life. For both Fred and his aged customers.  

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Future Document follows the dark journey of a girl, Christina. Anomalous memories are re-traced in the pursuit of revealing their true intentions. Transmissions have punctuated the strange world, in which the girl has found herself to be the centre of transmissions, she remembers, that may have eradicated the frequency of human life as she knew it. As her alter-human capabilities slowly unlock (as prophesied by those who are watching her), the truth of her place in the plans ahead is shown to her. The transmission has already begun - Christina, however, still has more to remember. Directed by Jake & Daniel Astbury, Future Document is the brothers' own unique meditation on a piece of apocalyptic sci-fi. Inspired by the structure and style Japanese sci-fi manga, a powerful female, both violent and child-like, is overseen by an elusive, evil scientist. Shot in B/W Anamorphic digital video and Super-8 film, Future Document is perhaps the only independent sci-fi with genuine, unexplained UFO footage, filmed whilst shooting a scene in Cambridgeshire. The UFO was only discovered on review of the rushes afterwards and was introduced into the story by way of a strange anomaly that may, or may not, have changed everything.