Projects in categories: Fiction

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A different kind of Vampire movie set in the ancient creepy gothic city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Everyone keeps talking about her..ever since she was born. As they say "No peace for the wicked". But really, what has eleven year old Morticia done to anyone...apart from throw a cup of tea into Rev. Maclean's face at the Vicar's garden party...and write graffiti all over the church walls "Reverend Maclean is a Dirty Bugger." The Three Witches love to gossip about her....making up tall tales...or are they? None of the children seem to like her. And her Mum and Dad are hopeless cases. Well, they would be...fancy Christening her "Kylie". What a yucky name. So anodyne. Kylie much prefers "Morticia" meaning Death. Nothing seems to happen much until she hears a voice calling her name "Morticia". it is her Master's voice. It draws her to the local zoo, where she encounters the man...or beast of her dreams.....but everybody else's nightmares. Morticia knows what she must do. And fearlessly she does it....and is transported...far away from her war-mutilated ex-soldier Dad, and her guilt-ridden Mum.

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A car roars through the darkened country roads. Inside, a distraught Sarah, holding her stricken dad, Mark, is desperately trying to stem the flow of blood. Having been re-directed to an Evacuation facility on the edge of town, Steve, an off-duty Paramedic is in a race against time fully aware that Marks chances of survival are rapidly slipping away. The scene that greets them on arrival is one of chaos. The floor, awash with blood, is covered with the bodies of the dying and injured, doctors dart back and forth, clearly overwhelmed. A violent convulsion causes Mark to lose consciousness, heart stopped he slumps to the floor. As the adrenalin needle slams into her Fathers heart Sarah stumbles back and her world fades to black. Upon regaining consciousness Sarah is greeted by the uneasy silence of a seemingly deserted building. Bleeding and dazed she stumbles through the darkened corridors unaware of the fate that awaits her.

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One woman. One man. Both mystified beyond belief over their apparent inability to escape the woods they both find themselves in. An invisible force-field prevents them escaping and they realize they are unwittingly stuck in a video game. Forced back to a nearby field, they realize that their troubles have only just begun, and have no idea how to get back to reality.

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Our story is set in dusty downtown Cape Town, at a time when poisoned pigeons fall out of the sky and magic is hard to come by. This is the story of an outsider, a loner who doesn't know what she's looking for until she finds it.

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The Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas's reputation rests on the trilogy of films he made in the 1970s about his childhood in postwar Scotland. What many people do not know about Douglas is that he was also a passionate collector of cinema memorabilia and pre-cinema optical devices. He incorporated many of these into his last film, Comrades, which tells the story of the first trade union from the point of view of an itinerant lanternist. Lanterna Magicka recounts the story of Douglas's collection, the making of Comrades and the remarkable legacy Douglas left us with.

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Ben spends his time listening to his Dad's old 70's vinyl and making mixtapes on an old double deck tape recorder. He makes a tape to try and woo the girl next door, Lily, the girl of his dreams.

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Walt Disney wakes up in the future to discover he's been cryonically frozen for a few hundred years.

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Fifteen year old Mia’s life is turned on its head when her Mum brings home a new boyfriend. Touching on the themes of her Academy Award®-winning short Wasp, FISH TANK is an original and unique modern tale of our times.

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Set in 1979 Britain, FIRST KISS tells the story of Carla, a young Brazilian girl who is having difficulties settling in to her new life in London, and when a youthful misunderstanding occurs with a classmate at school it delivers harsh consequences.

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A dark fable set in an unforgiving future. Two furnace stokers, Porter and Strivitz, are supposed to be burning all the music ever written. But they're about to discover that some things just won't burn.

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A year after his brother's death, Rob discovers that the only way to help his father cope with the loss, is to 'force' his affection onto him.

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Prepare for a night of total terror, as a band of misfits hidden in an isolated farmhouse, face the onslaught of an army of sock puppet zombies! Will they survive or will they become 'zombified'? Comedy-Horror from the bottom drawer!