Projects in categories: Fiction

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What does it feel like to know that you are about to be killed? Nearly a decade ago, a terrified village in southern Mexico sought refuge in a small wooden church and awaited their inevitable fate. Several hours later, 45 of them were dead.

Until now the full story of the massacre at Acteal has never been told.

A Massacre Foretold is a powerful story of drama and intimacy, that takes us into a world of masked Mayan rebels, clandestine government death squads and an inspiring indigenous village.

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Roy bills himself as an International Natural Medium. He earns a living visiting the houses of women in the poor English town of Chatham – and delving deep into their vulnerable side. His clients are quick to take him at his word, while his teenage son Mark has serious doubts. Painfully funny.

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Roll up roll up! It's A Model Artist sideshow! See them paint! See them model! See them change colour!

An artist paints her model, without much success. The model takes matters into her own hands, but the artist has other ideas. Will they they paint their picture before the ringmaster closes the show? A silent sideshow styled by the silent era, modelled on the future.

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A road trip set in the Swiss Alps. The paths of Italian motorist Filippo and Serbian hitchhiker Boris cross in dramatic circumstances while both travel back to their homelands to face their two very different pasts.

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Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.

A'Mare is a story of childhood friendship shot in Sicily in original Sicilian dialect. Amati (director) worked with and directed two local children from Lipari Island to act as the lead characters in the film.

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When Alice and Dan meet their connection is undeniable; it's clear they are meant to be. But are they ready for each other? Confined in their small London flat, they magnify their differences, create conflict out of nothing, and slowly tear each other down.

A+D is a raw, edgy, and intensely intimate documentary-like examination of all the aspects of their romantic and sexual involvement. Unflinchingly exploring themes that challenge the idea of public versus private.

As Alice and Dan simply try to ‘get along’ we are reminded of our own failed loves, our own weaknesses, our own destructive patterns, all the while feeling like the lucky voyeur.

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Inspired by the BUPA Great North Run, Best's unqiue style of hand drawn animation captures the atmosphere of the event and the participating runners. Using a process called ‘occlusion’, silhouetted figures are made visible only as they pass each other. This emphasises the individual’s singular effort in amongst the crowd.

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Mackenzie Crook plays a young man, Comet Snape, who steals a grandfather clock and sets off to bring it back to his dying father in West Wales.

Sometimes poignant, often very funny, Abraham's Point takes Comet on a journey of redemption from the dark streets of London back to the beautiful landscapes of Wales and to the little coastal village where his parents still live. Here in a shattering climax, we discover the dark secret that has haunted Comet for so long.
 

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When hearts are a rare and valuable commodity, only the most ruthless survive.

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After Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he finds difficulty adjusting to life on the outside. Sam is forced to confront the people he hurt, trying to find out which one is seeking revenge on him.

While trying to cope with the effect his actions had on the people he knew, he finds himself being hunted by a group of young thugs, who seem to be following the same path as Sam had in the past - but who are they and why are they hunting him?

Sam's first day of freedom will be one he never forgets, and as important in his life as the one that lost him his freedom in the first place. Sam is about to go from Kidulthood to Adulthood, if he survives.

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Set in and around the women’s prison at Millbank in the 1870s, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London’s most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prison's more unlikely inmates – the imprisoned spiritualist Selina Dawes who weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? Sympathetic to the plight of the innocent-seeming Selina, Margaret sees herself dispensing guidance and perhaps friendship on her visits, little expecting to find herself dabbling in a twilight world of séances, shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions. By the time it all begins to matter the viewer will find themselves desperately wanting to believe in the magic.

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A secret agent spoof starring a seven foot tall Austrian action-hero bull and a skinny, self-assured, snappily dressed English goblin playboy! It's Dangermouse for the 21st century!