Projects in categories: Fiction

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Foreigners is an animated documentary about foreigners who live in London. The film, which is based on interviews with ten young people from all over the world who live in the city, pieces together vignettes from multiple points of view that reveal London as an international metropolis which is both exciting and alienating. The interviews suggest a fresh look on contemporary English culture, and raise more fundamental questions about cultural differences and human nature.

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An animated exploration of Epping Forest’s sinister past sparks off a journey into the dark side of the artist’s mind.

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An elderly woman recalls bygone memories. As a child she had three imaginary pets that she held with strings. She carried them with her all day and night, until one day she lost them. She looked for them everywhere to then find them unexpectedly.

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Humi is seven, and things in her house have changed. Her grandmother, a force of nature, has died, leaving the once spirited house in mourning. Humi watches with curiousity as mourners, dressed in white, gather in their house to observe the forty day period of mourning. Meanwhile, her mother, Nazia, devastated by the loss, starts to fall apart. As Nazia turns her back on the world and Humi, she stands to lose all that she has left. And it's up to Humi to bring her mother back from the brink.

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A poignant split-time comedy drama, Forward charts the tragic end and the hopeful beginnings of a young man's relationships. A young woman, Emma, loses control of a bike in a quiet London street. A young man, Sam, an American alone and isolated in London, mourns the recent death of his girlfriend. Scenes of Sam's loneliness and isolation are intercut with happy scenes of him and Emma together. But these supposed flash backs are actually flash forwards, and we are seeing Sam's future, not his past. The film ends with Emma's bicycle crash again, but this time revealing it to be the moment that she and Sam meet.

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Fragments is a double-murder-mystery with fast paced twist after twist after twist. It is filmed digitally and is presented in black-and-white.

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A Rembrandt painting is stolen whilst being authenticated by an Oxford University academic. It appears to have been taken by Alison Siegel's fictional alter ego. Can it have been? This dual narrative thriller blurs the distinction between fiction and reality and is set both in the fusty academic world of Oxford University and a fictional neo-noirish London.

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Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith-dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four people, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, it is a single bullet that determines the destiny of these four characters.

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A smart romantic comedy. Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counsellor, drinking buddy Marcus and Marcus' girlfriend Sophie. Beginnings, endings, tricks - could the French be on to something?

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For Nathan, Rebecca and Kerry, Friday night holds the promise of dreams coming true, but what happens when they don't?

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Gangsters In Love is Gore Cartoons' first venture into live-action cinema. The films' focus is on both the rise and fall of The Techo Union, the most powerful criminal empire the world has ever seen. Its leader is The Boss, a sinister black shadow that never seems to leave the darkness behind, no matter what direction the sun is facing. Hes on a mission, to seperate his two most trusted henchmen, Aiko Mana and Frank Lee. The reason for this is simple, both are on the verge of falling in love with one and other and this can't happen. Not because its against The Boss's rule, but because The Boss wants Aiko for himself!

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Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, eliciting idle kindness, benign tolerance and occasional abuse, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. But then over the course of a summer, Josie’s world shifts. A teenager, David, comes to work with him. David likes him. They open up to each other and suddenly the lonely adult is drinking cans down at the railway tracks with the local kids. He is awakened to needs in himself that have never been met. And Carmel, from the local shop, who has always been kind to him, stirs feelings within him that he struggles to name. And then one thoughtless moment unravels the threads of faltering friendship. Events spiral. Josie’s life is changed, forever.