Projects in categories: Fiction

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On the day of her mother's funeral, April confronts her father about the sins of his past - and her present.

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A 5 year old Scottish boy talks to his father about how a group of little dinosaurs can stop a big dinosaur from picking on them.

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Little Matador  is a feature length documentary about children bullfighters in Mexico. Kids as young as eight are trained to kill bulls ten times their weight. The film follows three children who are fighting not just the bull but their own demons;

Michelito is ten. The adored child of a matador Dad, Michelito has killed over two hundred bulls. ‘Picasso was born to paint, Mozart to make music – and Michelito to be a matador,’ says Dad. Can Michelito fulfil his father’s dream to become the youngest matador in history?

Joel is nine. Neglected by his mum and step-father, he finds paternal love in the ring. Matador Ismael becomes Joel’s surrogate father and guardian angel. But if Ismael moves to Spain for his own career, what will happen to Joel?

Andrea is twelve. She started bullfighting when her father moved to America. Andrea has disowned her dad – who has found a new woman - and vows to save her mum from poverty by becoming a superstar bullfighter. But will Andrea ever get over her terrible nerves every time she enters the ring?

Little Matador is an extraordinary testimony to the lengths these kids will go to realise their dream.

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A young girl is told to go and deliver something to her Grandmother who is ill.

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London 2005 - It’s the story of Ousmane and Mrs Sommers, both humble people living ordinary lives, he in France, she in the Channel Islands. He has a son – she has a daughter – they both are students in London.

On July 7th 2005, without any news of their dear children, they decide to start a journey together in search of the two teenagers. And although they come from different religious backgrounds – Ousmane is Muslim and Mrs Sommers’ Christian – they will share the same hope in finding their children alive. Putting aside their cultural differences, they will give each other the strength to continue the search and maintain the faith.

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Abiyot runs for money, every weekend at a different race. He left Ethiopia to try and relaunch his running career in the US.

With every aspect of his daily routine centered on his training, his footsteps not only dictate the rhythm of his life, but also become the pervasive rhythm of the film.

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Lorraine is the new girl at school. She is faced by the issues of peer pressure and is lured into the world of a girl gang.

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A magical tale of loneliness and friendship based on the award-winning book by Oliver Jeffers. One day a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep and decides to take it home even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!

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A romantic comedy with a difference, Love Hate is the story of an affair between a sweet-natured young charity worker and a woman who turns out to be the physical embodiment of his hatred.

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Jenny and Michael live a seemingly idyllic life in a beachside house but the tranquility of their lives is soon shattered when some bad news arrives. In a moment, their lives are changed forever and Jenny is deprived of a long held ambition, until.

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Elvis spends his time watching life pass by through a pair of binoculars. He finds an exciting new use for them when he falls for Sammy, a girl at his school. Romantic love verges on something more obsessive and menacing.

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After a tragic accident John begins an obsessive crusade to bring his comatose sister back to the waking world. In his sleep he walks the afterlife where she is trapped and soon John finds himself playing a game for her soul, a game that can’t be won, against the only opponent who can never be beaten, Death. His flat mate Kate struggles to deal with his increasingly irrational behaviour, as he spirals deeper into this dark world, convinced that he can rescue Lorna.
 
In the afterlife star-crossed lovers, Lorna and Dave search for one another to find the happiness they once knew in life. But with all odds against them the lovers realise that nothing is what it seems and that they are running out of time.

At the heart of this dark, parallel world Death taunts and seduces them with their deepest desires. With everything to play for, John will stop at nothing, even when he finds himself back at the site of the accident once more.