Projects in categories: Fiction

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When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world suddenly seems lonely and uncertain. Then, one afternoon he stumbles into the old ramshackle garage at the end of the garden, and finds something that will change his world forever.

Skellig is a strange and extraordinary creature, as ancient as the earth and now intent on a life of nothing and nobody. With his new friend Mina who teaches him to look at the world through different eyes, Michael nourishes the reluctant Skellig back to health, while his parents are preoccupied with this baby sister lying in hospital. When Micheal realises that Skellig may have much more power than he would ever admit to, he knows he has to give Skellig back faith in his own power to heal, before it is too late.

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Sandra Laing entered the world a beautiful baby but no one, not the hospital staff, her mother, father or neighbours would admit the obvious. Abraham and Sannie Laing were white yet their daughter was dark. By a biological quirk, the pigment of an unknown black ancestor had lain dormant for generations and manifested in Sandra. If there was ever a wrong place and wrong time for this phenomenon, it was apartheid South Africa in 1955. Skin is a compelling and moving story about love, betrayal and reconciliation.

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Slaughter is the feature film debut of writer and director Juno Jakob (Credited as Dan Martin) and takes horror back to its nasty, gritty and often tongue in cheek roots of the 1970's and 80's.

The film follows escaped mental patient David Ward as he hides in his derelict caravan spending his days hiding from the police and doctors and filming himself raping and murdering while police slowly discover his crimes and get closer to him. The film is told from two view points. The traditional third person camera and David's own Hi8 camcorder.

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A street mugging revives bitter-sweet memories of a lost love.

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Henry Harper can't write: his efforts to create the 'perfect murderer' have left him with only a blank page and a hangover to show for it. His frustration is vented through a series of strange artworks that decorate his untidy flat and, as the dawn breaks over a grey horizon, he starts to question his motivations as a writer. But Henry's examination into the mind of the killer he is trying to create has chilling consequences, as he pushes himself to the edge.

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Rat lives life like his namesake, doing whatever it takes to survive. Drug dealing, mugging, stealing are all parts of everyday life to Rat but when he steals a briefcase from a well dressed stranger he realises that there are worse things stalking the city than him, much worse.

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In the wake of an horrific accident a year previously, a man revisits his hometown to speak to the driver that killed his girlfriend. However, it soon becomes clear that things in the town are not how our man remembers.

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Some days are bad and recently Tom has been having quite a few bad days and since meeting the prefect like chic 'Salmon gang' his week is getting worse. Will Tom discoverer the truth behind his new found friends? And are things always as they seem?

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That some people are constantly on roads is explained with some land, airway and seaway images. These people's journeys will certainly come to an end but this time other people's journeys will start in other words this cycle will always continue.

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The latest film from BAFTA award winning director Shane Meadows sees him reunited with Thomas Turgoose, the young star of the internationally acclaimed This is England. Shot in stunning black and white on location in the area of North London that the film takes its name from, Somers Town is Meadows' first film to be set outside the Midlands.

Turgoose plays Tomo, a troubled young lad who's run away to London. There he meets Marek, a shy Polish teenager who shares a small flat with his labourer father in a rundown area. When Marek agrees to let Tomo stay with them, unbeknownst to his father, the pair form a strong bond as they work odd jobs for an eccentric neighbour and compete for the attention of Maria, a beautiful French waitress, and try to avoid discovery by Marek's father.

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1974. Power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the terraces. Flares, Chopper bikes and beer at fourteen pence a pint. Joe McCain, 17 and restless, is bored with the flatline tedium of a life that seems like it's going nowhere, and a best mate he's drifting apart from.

Enter Jane, moving to the beat of a music that Joel's never heard, a vision of loveliness who opens the door to a whole world of sound, sex, and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul! Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe finally finds somewhere he belongs, and the acceptance and true love he yearns for.

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On a South London estate the local youths see themselves as being in a war – against the police, gangs, the world. They think nothing of bullying an effeminate young African asylum-seeker and his mother. But the young African has a secret: he knows more about war than they ever will.