Projects in categories: Fiction

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Best friends Malachi and Neil visit their special hideaway only to be greeted by an uninvited guest.

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A film about a friendship between 12 year olds Toby, who is trying to make sense of life and Arthur, who is inflatable.

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N is a 13 year veteran of the Dorothy Fish, a psychiatric day hospital in North London, whose sole ambition is never to be discharged. But when glamorous Poppy bursts onto the scene, loudly protesting her sanity and desperate to get out, a baffled N reluctantly agrees to help her. In a 21st century catch 22, the pair soon discover that to qualify for legal aid to pay for the lawyer to prove she is sane, Poppy must get sickness benefit, for which she must prove she is mad. Trapped in a crazy upside-down world, where nothing turns out to be quite what it seems, a curious friendship develops born of love.

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Possessed enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions. The film questions whether hoarding is a symptom of mental illness or a revolt against the material recklessness of consumerism. When does collecting become hoarding and why do possessions exert such an influence on our lives?

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Michael Hallam marries into one of the richest and most powerful families in New York. Neither this nor running one of the largest companies in the big apple is enough for him. Bored with a life that few of us could only dream of, Hallam spends his time using his money, power and charm to predatorily lure countless women into bed. Unbeknown to him, and as a result of a single decision he makes, his life takes a significant turn for the worse. Everything he has slips away at breakneck speed.

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In a near future world, economics has taken such control that artistic expression is outlawed. Underground groups gather together in the dark corners of Britain to listen to illegal music, while trying to remain one step ahead of the police. Alan Osborne is an accountant who stumbles into this world but once he is on the inside he must decide whether or not to take a stand.

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An investigative and exploratory hands-on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things 'off’. Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two-dozen other things first.

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The Darkness is lifted. Project Dark is explained.

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Daz is looking for love. Saleem is looking for sex. Cruising at an underground archway, these two worlds collide. Back at Daz' bedsit, Saleem embarks on a dangerous, thrilling sexual adventure. Both characters disparate worlds overlap and collide to tell a tale of loneliness and longing in a city late at night. Flirting with danger, the dialogue erodes to a series of images of tenderness, violence, power and control.

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Psycho Ranger is based on actual events. Our story is set in the Derbyshire Peak District and is about a High Peak Ranger (Samuel Waring) who loses his mother to cancer. The Ranger slips into psychotic episodes, due to isolation, depression, a persistent poacher and 2 hikers who ridicule him. He kidnaps the poacher and hikers and psychologically tortures them before killing them.

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In a small town built around a chemical plant, 2 neighbours are trapped together after an explosion. Locked in together their secret lives are exposed. A man is accused of murder, a woman who has forgotten reality is confronted with her demons and a desperate neighbour fantasises of a life with her. Why does the street's inhabitants have a history of mental illness scarred into its past? Are the plants exhumed fumes affecting the town’s sanity? And what really happened when David met Ruth.

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Tomboyish Pumpgirl loses herself in girlish daydreams about stock-car driver Hammy. She naively believes that Hammy loves her and will leave his wife, Sinead. Stuck in a loveless marriage with Hammy, Sinead’s need to be stimulated spiritually pulls her into an adulterous passion with Shawshank. When Shawshank realises that the lascivious Hammy has a soft spot for Pumpgirl, he orchestrates a gang rape of her. Hammy is filled with conscience-stricken despair after the rape and seeks solace in his family. Pumpgirl starts to stalking Hammy and is furious when she sees him play happy families with Sinead and the kids. Unfortunately, Sinead is now pregnant with Shawshank’s child. As Hammy’s guilt turns to self loathing, he decides to set fire to Shawshank’s truck. He tries to call Sinead and, when she fails to reply, anguished, indeed suicidal, he attaches a tube to the exhaust pipe on his car, feeds it through the window and sits down inside. Ignoring Hammy’s calls, Sinead is trying to tell Shawshank about the baby. Shawshank misunderstands Sinead’s intentions and becomes violent. Finally realising that she had been deluding herself about Hammy, Pumpgirl kidnaps his kids Kelly and Darren. Eventually, she relents and delivers them safely to Sinead.