Projects in categories: Fiction

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Set in a typical East London high street during an atypical hot, dry, English summer. After the rain is a love story, between neighbours Lian and Adrian, who suffer from surreal compulsive obsessive disorders. Lian, a Chinese waitress, evaporates when she cries, only coming back with the rain; while Adrian, the laundry man, coughs feathers in times of anxiety. As their worlds and disorders collide, we watch Lian and Adrian’s initial suspicion and distaste of one another give way to understanding, friendship and love. Tonally, After the Rain is a surreal comedy, addressing themes of love, ecology, racism and ignorance.

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It’s 200 years in the future and much has changed but one thing remains a constant – crime, and it’s getting a little bizarre. Boris Goudphater is the first prototype cyborg to be developed by the World Security Network (WSN) to combat crime. The cyborg experiment failed due to a dangerous defect, but Goudphater managed to survive the de-commissioning process and escaped. Horribly disfigured, the evil wide-mouthed Goudphater is very angry and he’s out for revenge. Agent Crush the second prototype cyborg is also somewhat defective, but he’s trying to prove himself as a secret agent. Despite being furnished with all manner of superhero gadgets and hardware, Crush is prone to bumbling accidents and wreaks havoc wherever he goes. However, in tandem with his creator Spanners and Spanners’ daughter Cassie his latest mission is to stop Goudphater from exploding a nuclear device at the earth’s magma core, which will cause every volcano to erupt, destroying the earth. A spectacular flying car chase through the streets of New York and the underground lava caverns lead to an explosive climax. Despite his shortcomings, can Agent Crush prove that he really is the only man for the job and save the earth in time?

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This remarkable debut film plunges the viewer into the madness of occupied Baghdad circa 2003. Two inmates from a mental institution suddenly find themselves out in the streets, negotiating local gangs, American soldiers, ruined buildings and falling bombs. An intense, vivid experience both on and off-screen, as the director and his crew were abducted and interrogated by both sides during the shooting of the film.

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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.