Projects in categories: Fiction

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Hunger follows life in the Maze prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA hunger strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.

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Tired and irritable, Zakes and Beth drive home along the M1, a familiar journey full of harshly lit service stations and bad coffee. When a white truck narrowly avoids hitting them, its back doors open to reveal a woman terrified and screaming caged up inside. Unsure if what he has seen is real, Zakes calls the police but drives on. Beth is furious that he hasn't done more to help and at the next petrol station storms off. When she doesn't return, Zakes slowly realises that she too has been snatched by the white truck driver and is forced into a vicious game of cat and mouse with a ruthless killer who has terrifying plans for his human cargo.

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I am a Horse
I am a horse was a sculpture by David Salkeld. Derived from Halysites and siderite fossilised corral, which is expressed in a delightful free flowing ocean like style in its sense of play and movement.

The project was to recreate the sculpture as something new - an experimental animation. Working with the sculptor to recreate I am a horse in 3D animation as close as possible to the original sculpture, where the allusion of complex interlocking shapes was created out of one solid piece of wood in a series of components forming the impression of a horse.

The animation depicts the the sculpture forming out of the coral and fossilised formations and sea, and will express the natural flow of the shapes and sense of fun of the original design, before dissolving back into the sea.

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On his way to a Make Poverty History gig in Scotland, Bob Geldof is accidentally stranded by an incompetent chauffeur in a run-down motel in Northern England. To his horror, he discovers a lookalike contest is taking place, and no-one will believe he is the real Bob Geldof. Just when he thinks things can't get any worse, he discovers he may not be the only Bob Geldof in the room.

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Today is Ruthie Segal's big batmitzvah. The fish balls are defrosted, the dress is ironed, and the guests are waiting - but Ruthie has a slightly different idea about what it means to become a woman. This short comedy celebrates chutzpah, passion and everyone's secret obsession with shmaltzy musicals.

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How does a well-meaning, middle-class woman cope when she goes along with the norm and hires an Eastern European woman to do her hoovering?

Embarrassment, guilt and resentment prevail. A comic tale about how sometimes it takes an encounter with a stranger to bring you into closer contact with yourself. (Winner Best Short Drama 2005, End of the Pier International Film Festival)

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Stuck in the middle of a pointless game at the youth centre Archie makes a choice to deviate from the uninvited tumult. He puts his headphones on and dares himself to follow a fellow outsider. Finding himself in a strange place he is forced to adjust quickly and absorb himself into something that both excites and numbs his head.

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5 years ago, film maker Elizabeth Stopford decided she wanted to document an extraordinary story that was unravelling within her own family.

As her outspoken and elderly grandmother Ruth clings to her gothic house as a symbol of status and position, dark memories of the family's early life in the house begin to surface. As tensions escalate over plans to hand ownership of the house over to one of her twin daughters, Ruth flees the country to France, to the home of her other daughter. However her journey shatters open a hidden world of painful secrets within the family's past. As everyone converges on the house the pain of the past and the resentment of the present forces the entire family to confront the legacy of 30 years of family trauma.

Taking the form of a parallel narrative, I'm Not Dead Yet draws on 20 years of archive film of the twins growing up within the family home. The past unravels in the present as each character is faced with confronting the secrets and the divisions within the family to this day.

I'm Not Dead Yet is a unique and personal film about the inheritance of a house, and one family's unspoken and unresolved past.

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'identities' charts the multicoloured, multicultural transgender community in Ireland. Five personal stories give shape to the vibrant, parallel worlds of Transvestism, Transsexualism, Drag, Sexual identity, and Gender Dysphoria.

Intercutting black and white interviews with fly on the wall footage, each character's daily experience is laid bare. Vivid art performances offer more abstract and deeply personal self-representation. Opening our eyes to the potential of existing in fantasy, reality is thrown into sharp relief. At its heart, this is a film about the human spirit. Overcoming stereotype and categorisation, the gender construct breaks open, allowing personality and human emotion a path to expression.

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Based on recently rediscovered footage, originally shot in 1968, this is a portrait of Syd Barrett’s (Pink Floyd) girlfriend Iggy, referred to ubiquitously and affectionately by those who knew her in the late 1960’s as ‘Iggy The Eskimo Girl’.

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A frequently overlooked and misunderstood community share their unique view of the world.

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Ricardo Beldini is hopelessly lost in London and becomes the victim of a mugging. He is taken into the home of Angola Niger, an elderly woman, who ministers to him by offering him a cup of tea. But there is something strange about this woman that he can’t quite put his finger on. Eventually, he slips off into unconsciousness. When he awakes, he finds himself lying in a strange bed. He borders on the edge of consciousness, and his feet are terribly sore. The sound of bubbling water slaps against his face. He ponders for a while, taking in this strange environment. He painfully tries to get out of bed, but freezes in alarm as he sees his trainers by the wall with his feet still in them cut off just above the ankles. Angola marches towards him with a chopping knife ready to serve him up for dinner.