Projects in categories: Fiction

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Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Claire, who have been platonic friends for ten years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Claire gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

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Since they were 13, Harry and Karl have worked as a successful magic double act, devising and perfecting tricks. When, at the height of their fame, Harry catches Karl red handed with his wife, a terrible accident happens: Harry chops his wife and assistant's head off carrying out the guillotine trick. We join them four years later, where they meet again at an international magic competition, the Magic Table Shield. Harry needs to win the cash prize whilst Karl wants to launch his TV career in his new guise as a 'mentalist'. Although they can't put their differences aside, they soon realise they need each other to succeed in the magic world.

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Man On Wire is the dramatic retelling of Philippe Petit's daring, and illegal, scheme to walk the high-wire between New York's twin towers - the artistic crime of the 20th century.

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The film charts the disintegration of Owen's troubled mind, from the initial conflict with his demons, to the ultimate and terrible acceptance of his 'purpose' in life. Isolated after the death of his Mother, Owen trawls the Internet and finds solace in the anonymous world of 'chat rooms'.

Known only as Man_in_a_hat, Owen hides behind his alias to keep the demons at bay and make friends in a lonely and hostile world. But demons don't stay silent forever and Owen lacks the strength of mind to resist them.

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Ronny Long has been filming himself since he was nine-years-old, staging cryptozoological comedies, wrestling matches and horror movies in his suburban backyard in Texas. Now 19-years-old, he reflects on the phantasmagoric childhood he obsessively documented.

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A darkly comic tale of how a lonely old widow discovers that her world can be full of wicked possibilities - with a little help from a Japanese talking teddy bear.

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In the small town of Saint-Hilare, dominated by the huge flyswatter factory Buzzz and Co, weird experiments are conducted in a secret lab: it seems a mad scientist has been hired to re-boost the company’s sales and Max, a young roaming musician in search of his father, is about to experience the most incredible adventure of his life.

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A lonely station master in an isolated railway station endures ‘Maya’ (the illusory appearance of the sensible world) while within his soul there is a tortured moment of loss.

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A group of unlikely travellers make an overland journey to the Moroccan Sahara, and forge friendships through the experience. The feature includes some of the most beautiful evolving landscapes, and acts as a backdrop to this subtle documentary about travel, friendship and understanding. Told in a light-hearted, subjective fashion, the feature explores the perceptions and expectations of a young middle class white man on his first trip to Africa, using a first person - present tense narrative.

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Reggie lives in the near future, where modern medicine has evolved to prolong life indefinitely, courtesy of the Immortality (IMMO) Corporation. He is now a very old man, and has lost the memory of his past completely. When one day a shoe falls down from the shoeboxes stored high above him, he is given the chance to take back his most precious memory, a moment that he’d previously lost forever.

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An actress attends an audition only to be insulted and interrogated by the male casting director. Preparing to walk out, a female casting agent joins them to pacify the unsettling situation, temporarily.

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Danger, lust and fear combine in an erotic game. Carl is on the run from a gang intent on killing him. In desperation he seeks refuge in an expensive restaurant where a beautiful woman is dining alone. Cornered, he knows that one false move from either of them will cost him his life. But desire is about to lay its own subtle trap. Based on a short story by German cult writer Hans Herbst.