Projects in categories: Fiction

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Whilst watching Chunky pretend to be sick on The Goonies, Ladyscraper starts to be sick all over his appartment. He starts to take off his clothes but he continues to be sick outside, on the street, in car parks, green lanes and canals - until he sees Chunky's clothes lying, abandoned in a park. When he puts the clothes on he feels much better.

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A supernatural monster tale, set amid the rocky outcrops and dusty spinifex of the Australian outback; it documents the downfall of one man and his nemesis, the abominable apeman of aboriginal folklore, The Yowie.

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It wasn't exactly a promising childhood. An impoverished father at fifteen, Daniel joined the family business, becoming a drug dealer despite watching his two brothers jailed for the same crime. But when his mother narrowly escapes a prison sentence, and moves the family from North Carolina to the South Bronx, Daniel is given a fresh start. At Taft High School, one of the most violent, notorious high schools in the nation, Daniel discovers that education can give him a future away from poverty and crime. Mature beyond his years, and increasingly articulate, he becomes a dedicated student, not only is he the first of his family to graduate high school, but he wins a scholarship to one of the most elite universities in the US. Just as he thinks the world is his oyster, Daniel falters. A fish out of water he feels alienated not only by his white classmates, but even more so by his middle-class black ones. Filmed over nine years by director Daniela Zanzotto, and narrated by Daniel himself, this is a remarkable portrait of a self-believer determined to steer his own path in life.

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Sometimes leaving brings you back - 17 year old Tom returns home after an unsuccessful suicide attempt.  

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LOVE follows Ernest as he helps his wife Angela to end her life. They are surrounded by sweet and bitter memories of the moments that led them to this awful reality.

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A young woman wakes up in a cell. She has done nothing wrong to be there. She will discover she is only guilty to have done nothing.

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Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. Now working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the Mob track Stephanie down and persuade her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge! Inspired by true events, JOURNAL OF A CONTRACT KILLER is the gripping story of a woman driven to turn on her paymasters with devastating consequences.

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When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan. Blinded by hatred and misguided patriotism 'Anton' is led into an illicit world of violence and is forced to choose between his family and his country. Hunted and on the run, Anton is drawn into a battle of wills with the law and his former accomplices, ending in a showdown in which he must risk everything to protect the woman he loves.

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On a run down council estate, Robert visits his mentally disturbed friend and recounts the details of a vicious street attack, only to discover that his own perception of reality has been turned upside down.

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For David, school life is different - he cannot understand why no one seems to want to talk to him. It seems there is a secret that everyone knows except for him. Frustrated and isolated, David must face his darkest imaginings to finally realise the true horror of the secret.

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A quirky little piece set in a hat shop during the Second World War. Jane Blank, struggles to rise above her natural class in order to keep up appearances. Exhausted from the pretentious dialogue and role play, ‘Madame Blanche’ is left questioning her duty to be true to herself.

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Black comedy taking us inside the mind of a female commuter who believes she's being followed home. But what is her follower thinking?