Projects in categories: Fiction

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Paula is an eleven year old tomboy playing out with her gang of lads in the woods in the last summer before starting at the big school. Her loyalties are tested as her nascent interest in the much-bullied Rob is spotted by the gang leader, Phil.

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The faces of class, wealth, history and the tensions between individualism and conformity in British society are explored in this visual journey from East to West London. Consisting of almost 3600 images of the city's residences taken in 2009 and 2010, the film records Callum's daily journey from his home in Clapton (E5) to the Royal College of Art in Kensington (SW7).

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He was bald with some liver spots on his head.

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James Matthew (Karl Sedgwick) is an arrogant young man who has everything going for him.

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Mary and Shelly used to be neighbours until Shelly and her husband moved away. One day they bump into each other in the street and promise to arrange to catch up over some tea. That day comes sooner than expected as Mary has something she just has to get off her chest. But when it comes down to it, she wonders if she’s doing the right thing. After all, they were never best friends and Mary wouldn’t classify Shelly as being an old-fashioned romantic, like herself. Shelly thinks it’s a great idea that Mary’s coming over. That way she can put aside her own troubles and concentrate on Mary for a little while - but can she?

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Kyle is 11 and he has an embarrassing problem. His mum doesn't help, in fact her 'tough love' approach makes things worse. When she writes a note to his teacher stating the unvarnished truth, he bunks off school and goes in search of his own solution.

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Wasters is a small self contained film in the same mould of CLeRkS. Written and directed by Luke Rufo.

It is one slow wednesday night for our four slackers who work in a bar. They would all rather be elsewhere doing other things instead of pouring drinks for others to have good times. This is a story about friendship, betrayal, love and oh yeah talking about shagging, drinking and everything in between.

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Waveriders is the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon and today's pioneers of Irish big wave surfing.
 

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The last months in the life of a 12-year-old boy who is dying of leukaemia and the impact on his friends and family. An uplifting story of a boy who lives out his last ambitions and prepares to die with humour and dignity. Based on the best-selling and prize-winning novel by Sally Nichols, the story draws triumph out of tragedy and dares to challenge the ways in which we confront death.

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A man stands in line for his morning coffee blissfully unaware at how life defining his encounter with the slack-jawed, gum-chewing barista will actually be. Can we be defined by the small choices we make in life, like our coffee order? Or does our coffee order choose us?

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Manchester, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis and under heavy assault both from his father’s tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, as well as the fierce bullies in the schoolyard.

In a last, desperate attempt to ‘sort him out’, his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No 2), with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present. Sequel to East is East, West is West is the coming of age story of both 15 year old Sajid and of his father, 60 year old George Khan.

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Anna (Dervla Kirwan) has that feeling again. The same feeling she had when her husband had that affair. Is he doing it again? With reluctant daughter Sam (Holly Gibbs) in town, Anna follows her intuition across London to discover the truth.