Projects in categories: Fiction

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Monotone centres around the concept of personifying a stereo speaker. The story chronicles the speaker's quest to find acceptance in a surreal world set against an intriguingly colourful backdrop. Can he find his soulmate amidst the chaotic and cut-throat musical world? Or will he face rejection at every turn in a world in which everybody is marching to a different beat?

Monotone is a story of love and identity which tackles broader issues of taste, subcultures and a desire for acceptance in a world in which a sense of community is being replaced by a greater focus upon the individual. Yet it does so in a fashion that is accessible to those of all ages and backgrounds.

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The golden rule on the blackboard says “write what you know” but reality is the last thing Charlie wants to write about. Through his eccentric Nan and a mysterious painting, Charlie discovers that whatever they tell him at school, the best thing he knows is completely invisible.

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A claustrophobic, blackly comic drama about a mysterious meeting between two strangers in an abandoned warehouse, starring The League of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss.

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A young asian woman Sudesh and her husband Prem emigrate to England and discover the difficulties in coming to terms with living in England.

Conflict and drama develops when they move into their new neighbourhood . Things are further complicated when Sudesh appears to see visions of hindu god Lord Shiva.

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In a small town in the North of England the police are carrying out a reanactment to try and find a missing girl called Lisa. We are shown the thoughts of Sarah the girl carrying out the reanactment, as she seems to communicate with the missing girl in the past.

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We went down, we went down (how far who knows).

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Frustrated with competing against DVD piracy and internet downloading, the owner of a small video store decides to fight back and save his ailing business.

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She left the land of Marks & Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin. Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution is a feel-good comedy following one dysfunctional family's journey from 1968 North of England to 19-below-freezing East Germany and back again. Mr Ratcliffe fought for the cause, but his wife fought for their family: a teenage sex goddess, and a 12 year-old communist spy. Will Mr Ratcliffe throw away his party card and fall in love with his brave new wife?

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Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie and Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soul-less hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity. Imprisoned in a suburban House of Horrors and designated a 'Mummy's Girl', Lena's only options appear to be to become part of the family - and join them in their insanity - or die.

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Private Detective Riz is hired to protect beautiful young client Michelle from an unknown danger. When she is brutally killed on his watch, Riz quickly becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. Trapped between the policemen that suspect him of murder and a mysterious killer, Riz must use all of his cunning to uncover the true murderer and clear his own name.

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Mustard is the story of a woman who can't change.

Joan ritualistically deposits her idiosyncratic childish objects around the city as if laying them to rest, in an attempt to change her life and grow up.

But the objects all return to her in another shape or form.

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A look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as 'The Butcher of Lyon'. Klaus was a Nazi torturer, American spy and tool of repressive right-wing regimes. His story is symbolic of the real relationship that Western governments had with fascism, and reflects the world as it is today - and the politicians that inhabit it - in a very different way.