Projects in categories: Fiction

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Dogging: A Love Story is an outrageous comic tale which follows a young mans search for true romance amongst the perils and pitfalls of love in the 21st century.

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Seven men with mid-life anxiety set out for a weekend in the country in an attempt to reconnect with their masculinity. What they find is a catastrophe so horrible and bizarre that a mid-life crisis turns out to be exactly what they need to survive it.

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Two lovers love to fight. When he brings home the wrong flavour ice-cream, he knows it's a mistake that could prove fatal. The couple revisit their violent past as they try to come to terms with the difference between pecans and pistachios.

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Twentysomething London lad David travels up to Liverpool hoping to track down the girl from last night. After she gives him his marching orders, David finds himself walking the streets of a strange city with only some loose change in his pocket and a head full of nonsense. Stumbling upon a betting shop, demure sales assistant Tina gives him a hot tip on a dog. As a thank you, David invites Tina out for a coffee and persuades her to throw a sickie from work in exchange for the delights of his company. Tina shows David around Liverpool, with a surprise around every corner and a glint in her eye that hides a secret pain. As day unfolds into night, romance grows between two young people with very different pasts with music as the food of love.

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Donkeys is a bittersweet, tragi-comic tale. When Alfred learns of his impending death he realises it's time to make amends with his estranged family. However, before things get better they get a whole lot worse and a blast from the past injects calamity, comedy and confusion into Alfred's efforts.

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When a strikingly beautiful but naïve young Dorian (Ben Barnes) arrives in Victorian London he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), who introduces Dorian to the hedonistic pleasures of the city. Henry’s friend, society artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin) paints a portrait of Dorian to capture the full power of his youthful beauty and when it's unveiled Dorian makes a flippant pledge: he would give anything to stay as he is in the picture - even his soul. Dorian's wild adventures continue, but soon he notices that his portrait, which is now locked away in the attic, has taken on an evil and disturbing air, while his own beautiful face goes unmarked by his deeds. Forced by his own evil actions to flee the country, Dorian returns twenty-five years later. To the surprise of his old friends, he looks exactly the same but he's jaded, having found pleasure but never happiness and he's haunted by the monstrous painting in the attic. His fear and paranoia grow as rumours of his past misdeeds circulate. Will Dorian get one last chance for love and redemption and more importantly, will he escape with his life?

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Jessica is alone in her house, disturbed by the memory of her missing boyfriend. As the night closes around her, she starts to hear strange noises - or does she? Is Jessica going mad or is there something even more sinister behind closed doors?

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Mike Green is lost: no money, dead end job and a pregnant girlfriend. Since he was a boy, Mike has been in love with comic books and the escape they offer. When a leading publisher hears of Mike’s own comic book and offers him the chance of a meeting, without a thought Mike grabs what he can and heads for London. When things don’t go as planned a chance meeting with Lucy, a waitress haunted by her past, opens his eyes to the beauty of possibility and shows him that not everything is already drawn.

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The body as landscape. 'A blue planet and some air'.

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Drop depicts a brief encounter between two disparate yet intertwined individuals.

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Duplicity...

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Alfie Singh, Accountant turned Film Producer, has a great idea for a film. It’s called 'Ealing Comedy' and it’s about an Accountant turned Film Producer called Alfie Singh. Alfie will play himself and his real son Paul will play his son in the film. Turned down by all the Financiers, Alfie vows to make the film himself. His life with his teenage son and his struggles to finance and make the film are all woven together in a series of mad-cap events concluding in a very British triumph.