Victor’s an ageing actor, famous for his TV butler from years ago. Desperate for a comeback, he's secured an audition for a London gangster film, by 'superstar' director Eddie Brick. Little does Victor know, he's in for a series of humiliations that will test how badly he wants the role.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. Dr. Parnassus with his extraordinary travelling show ‘The Imaginarium’, offers to members of his audience the irresistible opportunity to enter their universe of imaginations and wonders by passing through a magical mirror. But Doctor Parnassus is also cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr Nick, in which he won immortality.
Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reached her 16th birthday, she would become the property of Mr Nick. In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Dr. Parnassus must fight to save his daughter and undo the mistakes of his past once and for all!
Platinum blonde Jheri Jones lives on a remote trailer park in Mississippi. She has two sons Brad and Trevor. They live happily togeher in their 16 wheel mobile home. But unbeknown to her neighbours Jheri has a secret?
Kevin Lewis never had a chance. Growing up on a poverty-stricken Council estate in London, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and ultimately abandoned by social services, his life was never his own.
Even after he was put into care, he found himself on the streets caught up in a criminal underworld that knew him as 'The Kid'.
Yet Kevin survived to make a better life for himself. This is his heartbreaking and inspiring true story.
Shot at the windswept hill top Labyrinth sculpture park, Cragside, Northumberland.
A three minute experimental video, featuring the sculptures of David Salkeld. Utilising 3D animation as an experimental visual poem, to an ambient musical sound track by the Director Michael Salkeld.
The Calvin family win a cereal competition and an all expenses paid scuba diving trip to an idyllic countryside lake. Whilst diving there's an unexplained catastrophic event and they are the only survivors - or so they think.
The Last Breath is a surreal, breath-taking excursion into the dark heart of family life.
A film set in a Glasgow protestant community on the day of an orange march telling the story of a young boy who is desperate to be part of a local gang.
While their fathers march through the decaying streets of Glasgow their sons take a sinister journey into the dark heart of modern Britain.
Duty, Service, Glory - The Last Regal Kingsize reveals the reality behind belonging is betrayal.
A groundbreaking synthesis of ethnographic study, real-life characters and hypnotic music and photography. This poetic but unsentimental short is the first drama from acclaimed documentary-maker Simon Hipkins.
The stories of three individuals, a bomb disposal expert, a young boy and an elderly woman, as they each take the brave steps towards a life-defining moment.
Bettina runs the marriage agency Maruska. She's a modern day Cupid who specializes in Italian men and Eastern European women. Aldo, a timid banker, has married beautiful Svetlana but Piero can't find a woman of the right height. A bitter sweet tale about internet dating, the fall of Communism and finding love in the 21st Century.
