Projects in categories: Fiction

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Gone Fishing is the touching story of a boy and old man coming to terms with bereavement through their shared love of fishing, and the legend of Goliath, the biggest pike ever caught!

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Darts 'legend' Andy 'The Arrows' Samson and his voluptuous wife, Big Sheila, are the subject of a fly on the wall documentary that unintentionally reveals a wardrobe full of skeletons. After suffering an heart attack, Andy loses his throwing skills and he is faced with some stark home truths. Andy's ex-best friend and mentor, Alwyn, thinks he has the solution to Andy's dilemma. Big Sheila, however, is piling the hurt on, and it's going to take a miracle to get Andy back at the oche.

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Good Dick is an unusual fairy tale about a troubled, solitary women and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of the claustrophobic world by pursuing a courtship with her. As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defenses overwhelm them both. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds the courage to face her past. Writer, director, and lead Marianna Palka has an uncanny knack for understanding the complex give and take of human interaction and the sometimes painful motivations behind them. She has made a raw, joyously unpredictable feature debut touched with sly humor, tender hope and as much upfront honesty as its title implies, Good Dick.

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Bradley McKee is a Straight ‘A’ Student and just a normal guy. He’s a student who doesn’t have the perfect job or even a perfect social life. But he has met the perfect girl, of every man's dreams, famous glamour model Elle Harvard. At first sight of her, he is astounded by her beauty and style. The pair have a whirlwind relationship and in just one day dream Bradley is about to take Elle’s life by storm - much to the disgust of her over-protective and very arrogant agent. Elle possesses the ability to make Bradley take risks and do the things that he never believed that he could allow himself to do. Like most romantic comedies this relationship is about to take a turn for the worse when Bradley is set up by Elle’s agent and another model is photographed leaving his house. This is about to cause a major catfights in the model world. When Top model Elle threatens to give up her whole career for this boy there must be some serious pay offs. Elle’s agent pays Bradley off to end his relationship with the beauty. Bradley takes the money but automatically knows he has made the wrong decision - but it is too late once he has broken things off? It’s not long before he wonders if he can handle his newfound fame when things start crashing around him.

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Two Old Rivals, One Awesome Prize, No Holds Barred. Think it's all tea and biscuits in care homes? Think again.

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Billy, an 8-year old Chinese boy born and bred in Belfast is visited by his granny from Hong Kong. However, Granny, a medium, has not come alone. She has unwittingly bought a ghost that is completely different to anything she'’s ever encountered before.

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A man kneels down to pray to a painting of Jesus, only to find that his prayers are interrupted by a noisy fly. Despite his efforts, the man cannot deter the fly from interrupting his prayer, and soon finds himself embroiled in a challenge of the great and small.

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A British-Pakistani film set runner transporting a load of replica guns gets stuck in a London suburb in the middle of the night.

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Ever get bored of happy endings? Why does every rom-com feel familiar? Happy F****** Endings is an existential romance with a sci-fi twist that is the result of what happens if the characters of a film get bored with their stereotypical relationship story. Old friends Rachel and Iain, both in their 20s, desperately pursue their independent paths to what they think is true love, whilst slowly realising their love for one another. As their story reaches its inevitable happy ending, Clare, who so far has simply been a pawn in their courtship reveals that she is in fact in control of the path their story takes. Bored by the naïve developments Rachel and Iain’s story has taken thus far, she decides to make them re-live the scenes of their budding romance desperately trying to find a way to make a new love-story. However as things progress it looks that she may have to just face up to the reality that perhaps a romantic comedy will never really be able to break it's own rules, and that, inevitably, there will always be a happy f****** ending.

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Love isn't blind, just extremely short-sighted. Hardly Bear To Look At You takes an unflinching look at the addictive effect unrequited love can have on both parties. A myopic filmmaker tries unsuccessfully to seduce an enigmatic street performer, escorting her from London to Paris by train and then back again in her antique Citroen van. When he casts her in a film set in Cannes, his romantic obsession grows, leading to a conclusion that will force a re-evaluation of all that has gone before.

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Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort’s defences and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Meanwhile, the students are under attack from a very different adversary as teenage hormones rage across the ramparts. Harry finds himself more and more drawn to Ginny, but so is Dean Thomas. And Lavender Brown has decided that Ron is the one for her, only she hadn’t counted on Romilda Vane’s chocolates! And then there’s Hermione, simmering with jealousy but determined not to show her feelings. As romance blossoms, one student remains aloof. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one. Love is in the air, but tragedy lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.

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Young Ben struggles for his father's attention. When Karl is unable to attend a Karate competition due to dubious 'work commitments', Ben follows with his sister in tow. When he discovers Karl's second family his father agrees to attend the competition and a silent pact is made.