Projects in categories: Fiction

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Richard, bored of his mundane existence as a cycle courier, attempts to make his film A Distance Too Far in a bid to escape to a better life. Driven by the belief that it will propel him, his friends and his girlfriend to fame and fortune, and the fear of ending up like his family, the completion of his 'masterpiece' becomes the sole focus of Richard's life.

So with a budget creeping into positive numbers, Richard employs a rabble of egomaniacs and incompetents. These include his loyal friend Ray, chicken slaughterer (and now producer). Richard's likeable, mellow and quirky personality transforms into that of an angry, unappreciative tyrant who becomes hell bent on success. His relationship with girlfriend Jemma deteriorates, as he is unable to think past his ruthless ambitions. Eventually, his constant barking takes it's toll on the cast and crew, culminating in Richard throwing a tantrum and banishing them all from the set.

Even Ray, who has been funding the production with extra hours at the meat factory, is ejected.

Met with indifference after crawling back to his former crew, Richard realizes his dream is over for now and that his life, without the millions and the showbiz golf-buddies, isn't so bad the way it is.

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The 5000-seater West Lake Restaurant in the Chinese city of Changsha is the setting for this feature-doc. Old traditions and new money come together in a vibrant and colourful exploration of modern China. Central to the story is the restaurant's owner, the unstoppable Mrs Qin, a Communist Party member with a love of singing.

Between mouth-watering and 'exotic' Chinese food and the rousing Communist songs sung by the staff, the film examines how China has been transformed over the last few decades. It also poses the question: in this new affluent and ambitious China, who is thriving and who is left behind?

Many of life's most important events take place on the West Lake's stage and it is through these celebrations - a wedding between a wealthy property developer and his beautiful bride, a baby banquet and a grandmother's birthday party - that the film explores the struggles and hopes of Chinese people today.

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Bill has an understanding with local teenage boys, that he will buy beer for them. However when Cowan takes along his friend Jim for the first time, something about Jim encourages Bill to reveal more of himself to the boys than he ever has before.

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A man learns a lot from his father - how to talk, how to behave - how to kill. After all, the apple never does fall far from the tree.

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On the mediterranean coast a group of retired Brits spend their winter months reminiscing and putting the World to right. Inspired by a news item about a bungled post office robbery, they begin to think that they could plan the perfect heist.

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A seemingly quite tea plantation in the east of Bengal wakes up with a rage.

A fearless young tea worker intoxicated with the fumes of revenge.
Tranquillity returns with a cost.

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Passionately searching to please his muse, a composer (Volker Bertelmann) realises that the note he has been looking for is locked between two white keys. Inserting a bone from his head into the piano, he prepares to complete his composition.

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Blood + Roses is a story about a couple who take a holiday in the hopes of rekindling their love. The wife meets a strange man who turns out to be a vampire, and takes advantage of her weakness to turn her.
 
But in order to be 100% vamp, she has to feed, which leads to some hard choices.
 

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Based on extracts from the novel The Book of Israel, director Temple Clark has woven together a glimpse into two generations of a Jewish family decades apart.

Lithuania, 1886, a police sergeant and his companion return from their stations. The sergeant finds himself contemplating the hardship of his life. Stranded on the side of the road, the two officers seek shelter in a Jewish-owned inn. There, they drink, reminisce and play cards with some soldiers - loosing their money and the sergeant’s coat. The next morning, walking through the fields they encounter a Jewish boy on his way home and beat him up in frustration. Sixty years later, the boy’'s grandson, arrives in post-war Berlin, falls for a local girl and finds acceptance and love.

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At times war photographer Robert King resembles a heroic misfit straight out of the pages of Scoop, thrown into the heart of battle, struggling to adapt to the brutal environment he finds himself in.

Occasionally comic, often touching, more often dark, Blood Trail, the tale of Robert King, is a unique and personal journey, a film which follows him over 15 years and through three wars.

His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and
struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.

Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert’s life from
boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.

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Blown thrusts you into the explosive world of international espionage. Set in contemporary London it centres on MI5 hotshot Will Matlock - loyal, driven, ruthless, and a trained killer.

But the world of the swash-buckling 007 routine is long gone, now replaced by painstaking undercover operations, deniable encounters and street-level strategy. His current assignment - a seemingly routine fraud investigation into the London offices of a global corporation - reveals clues to an imminent terrorist attack - and a network of intrigue and deceit that reaches from the Middle East to the grandest boardrooms of London financial centre.

His only ally in this game of mutual deception is Ellie, a high-class call-girl and key suspect in the case who he believes is an essential conduit to all he needs to know. But as the roller-coaster plot thickens, we realise, like our characters, that nothing is quite what it seems and that no one can be trusted.

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Anthony watches a boxing match with his nephew, Jovan. Anthony heads to the shops, and returns to eerie silence in the flat – he will never see his nephew again.
'Blue' examines the notion of family and the fragility of relationships, as grief shatters Anthony’s perception of time.