Projects in categories: Fiction

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Lands End tells the story of Clare, a new mother with post-natal depression who spends much of her time sobbing under the kitchen table. On Christmas Eve in a desperate bid to escape her cheating husband Sebastian and get to the safety of her wealthy father’s house for Christmas, she enlists the help of two homeless men, Reza and Rory, to drive her from London to Lands End in Cornwall.

Despite Reza’s lack of recent driving experience and Rory’s constant thirst for alcohol the two men eventually prove worthy escorts. The adventures on the journey including the pitstop at Clare’s Granny's house where Granny comforts Clare and treats the men as heroes, all contribute to her increasing recovery and the precious bond with her baby is formed. But when the journey is almost over a chance meeting with her scheming husband and his lover who steal the baby away, means Clare has to look to her own resources to rescue the baby and escape Sebastian forever.

Christmas Day sees her well and happy and dancing on top of the table.

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New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting - or else. 

Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot.

Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energised by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another’s lives.

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Simon Eaves' experimental and unique animated style depicts the surreal world of a man who wishes to escape only to find that he is less free when he does. Slavestakingly created using individual hand treated frames. Simon Eaves creates a surreal and beautiful world.

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When a new Dad finds himself left holding the Baby, he tries his best to keep her entertained. That proves to be the easy part, but then he finds out that the Baby's nappy needs changing. Flumoxed by the instructions on the packet, he relies on his manly DIY skills to come up with a solution.

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Starting at dawn and finishing at dawn we witness Bradford at work, at play and at odds with itself. The sounds and sights of the city can tell us more than what life is like in Yorkshire today, they point to the greater global challenge of what happens when east meets west and neither wishes to lose its cultural identity.

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A Welsh family is in fear of their country which seems to have more mosques than McDonald's and terrorists lurking in every corner shop. The only person in the family trying to hold it all together is the mother, Karen. She has to deal with her layabout husband, who makes a joke about everything; her daughter, who no longer speaks to dad because she's fallen in love with an Indian and her son, who's secretly a racist thug. This funny and heartbreaking film deals with the paranoia of racism, the politics of hate and how it effects this family.

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Blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, this highly personal film looks at what it is like to be an outsider in London. The director examines his first impressions of being in the city through a series of fragments, mixing observational re-tracings of the past, re-enactments, and pure fantasy.

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This short film is a profile of four ancient London markets threatened with redevelopment: Spitalfield; Smithfield; Borough; Covent Garden.

Two have already suffered the fallout of redevelopment; the other two await their fate and the outcome of planning applications for redevelopment.

The film compares and contrasts and analyzes to what extent the marriage of market forces and local neighbourhood history has given us what we consider to be the 'bone marrow' of London life.

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Moses and Chalkie are brothers trapped in two very different worlds.

Chalkie never grew up, a childhood accident stopped the clocks for him when he was six, he's got an artist's touch and an eye bordering on genius, but not much else.  Mike the window cleaner is his friend, and has taken him in after one too many beatings from Moses. Mike looks after him and he may have just found a future and a way out of The Heights for young Chalkie, he's just praying Moses doesn't find out before tomorrow when the deal is signed. Tonight, Chalkie is out, just doin' his thing, adding his colours to the bricks and the slabs of Paradise Heights, where everybody is nice apart from his brother.

To most around here, Moses is King of The Heights, his girls know that and so do the punters. The streets are his bloodline. An eye for opportunity and a cold ruthless streak got him to the top around here. But some deals go bad and even Moses answers to someone. If he doesn't come up with what he owes soon, the King will fall. Trouble is the punters aren't biting and the girls are nervous because a serial rapist is doing the rounds. Moses instincts have never let him down though and he knows Mike is up to something. Maybe Chalkie is the answer to his problem. What he doesn't know is the word is already out to take him down tonight.

It's when you think it can't get any worse that luck usually has a part to play, and as the sun goes down over Paradise Heights, worlds start to collide.
 
 

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Low Tide tells the story of the last three days of a woman's life; Kathy is dying of cancer and is being nursed at home. Her husband Tom cooks and cares for her but is unable to offer her emotional support and keeps himself apart, playing his music or drinking with a recently widowed friend. Kathy forms a strong attachment to her visiting nurse, confiding in her about her past affairs, her ambiguous feelings towards Tom and her fear of death. Her closest friend comes to visit and a rift is healed; memories haunt her and eventually, after a painful confrontation, she and Tom attempt to come to terms with her infidelities, their unhappy marriage and the loss of their only child.

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Lunatic shares laughter with tears as we drift on a tumbleweed journey into the world of two South London brothers and their associates.

Bill and Perry, the brothers, are small time entrepreneurs. Howard, Dave and Laurie are their partners. The chaps get the bulk of their money from collecting rents on ex-council properties that they acquire through a scam.

The main character of the story ‘Bill’ takes the viewer through two days of events that he persistently blames upon an impending full moon.
 
With tender-sweet moments of love, laughter and south London banter, entrepreneurs, sidekicks, wives, lovers and friends push the film towards its conclusion of revenge with wonderful street humour and colour.

Infidelity, betrayal, suicide and murder crash onto the screen with an authenticity rarely witnessed.

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Note to self, 'never let a horny panda loose in your living room'.