Projects in categories: Fiction

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Having fled Iraq, 9-year-old Ali arrives in Britain. Unable to speak English he is shunned by those around him. He builds a plane from objects discarded by the locals and makes a special friend along the way. A visually driven lyrical tale that explores loss, the sweetness of hope and the realisation of dreams.

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Martin is living a loveless and sex-starved existence. If he doesn’t pull himself together, his ex-wife will sell his beloved wine bar. Martin is cast back into the horrifying world of London dating. His best friend Liam thinks he knows what a woman wants, but only one night at a time. Even his help can’t prepare Martin for the heart-achingly sexy Eva - and her dating Rottweiler, Douglas Todd. Todd is the modern woman’s antidote to time wasters and losers. To date Eva, Martin needs Todd’s blessing. To keep the bar, Martin needs a date. What Martin really needs is a bloody miracle. All Bar Love is, ironically, the perfect date movie.

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A timely black comedy about two influential men who cannot stand each other. After one of them takes a wrong turn in the middle of the night the balance of power between them tips in a way that will change their relationship forever.

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Life in a South African Township is seen through the eyes of seven pupils as they come together under the parental eye of Mr Mtshali, headmaster of Velabahleke High School. Velabahleke (Come with a Smile) may be the only school in the country that starts at 06h30am and where students are racing to get there on time. Mtshali has created an oasis of excellence for hundreds of learners, where students, staff and the community are doggedly determined that they not be slaves to their backgrounds. The aspirations and everyday lives of the pupils, both in and out of school, interweave to form a story of a generation striving to transcend their backgrounds and achieve what could now be theirs in the new South Africa.

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It is the 100th year of the TT racers on the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man government have planned extensive celebrations to mark the 100th year. Flexstone Pictures Limited will be filming a two part two-hour documentary on the build up to and history of the Isle of Man TT racers and the tourism to the Isle of Man. An exclusive interview with the President of Tynwald.

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Based on Blake Morrison’s best selling memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father? is ultimately a father son love story. From scholarly Blake’s fraught and sometimes humiliating teenage years growing up with a charismatic, overbearing and adulterous father, through to the ultimate grief of watching him die as an adult and father himself, the story takes us on a heart-rending and often humorous journey in which Blake revisits his past, comes to terms with some difficult home truths and finally learns to accept that one’s parents are not always accountable to their children.

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Set in England at the turn of the last century, Angel recounts the glorious rise of Angel Deverell, a poor but passionately determined young woman, who climbs the social ladder by becoming a celebrated romantic novelist.

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A man's love of nature and the sea is threatened by the work of a well-known artist. A slightly surreal conflict unfolds on the shifting sands of a Lancashire beach.

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An affluent young man arranges a threesome with a young chav from the local council estate and an ape from London Zoo.

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Arachne is taken from Ovid's myth of a young girl who is metamorphosed into a spider. Within the web, stories are told of human life. Drawing is used to recreate the act of spinning. 

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After a violent storm, Ali Abdul Hussein awakens on a deserted Cuban beach, sick and disoriented. Taken to Havana, he meets Manuela, a beautiful and sensual dancer. She is reluctant to take in this tormented stranger, suspecting he’s a prisoner from Guantanamo Bay. However, she relents, drawn to this troubled foreigner. Plunged into the music and romance of Havana, Ali struggles to separate fantasy from reality. He is haunted by nightmares, taken back to the interrogation room’s pain and humiliation, and by startling visions linking his past and his present life. But are these nightmares flash backs to his experiences in the prison or just dreams of a tortured soul?

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In a climate of rapid technological advance in the fast booming baby business, perhaps a little pause for thought is required on behalf of the patients. Couples with infertility issues, biological clock challenged career women, and the gay community to name some can now achieve the previously inconceivable and are prepared to pay a high price for potential failure. Exploring a week in the life a typical 'cycling' batch of women and their donors preparing to undergo Assisted Reproductive Technology treatments at a progressive private clinic in the USA, the film asks 'what if...' What if - something entirely medically conceivable went amiss? If the architects of ART went the way that any successful artist might - and lost the run of themselves? Are not the baby designers of the future in danger of becoming the architects not only of their own downfall, but potentially tolling the death knell to the survival of our species?