Projects in categories: Fiction

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Danny Marrs is a, fast-talking, quick-thinking, twenty-something small town grifter who comes to Hollywood with a big smile, and a 'wannabe' girlfriend. When Danny runs into Joe Schmolensky, a middle-aged janitor obsessed with old movies and a gift for impressions, he sees opportunity.

Despite Joes misgivings the two men embark on a series of hilarious misadventures that expose them to a world of greedy, colourful characters; including a Hollywood agent, a debt collector, a wallflower secretary, a Russian gangster, a porn director, a computer geek and megalomaniacal TV executives.

Trust Me is a smart and funny look at the entertainment industry, politics and America's obsession with fame. It will make you laugh, think and sigh, 'Only in America'. Trust Me!

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What happens when three groups of people decide to rob the same bank on the same day.
 

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Nick Byrne (Sean Halligan) is a successful fashion photographer. He uses 'trafficked' models and gets into trouble with criminals. He decides to leave the rat-race behind and concentrates on photographing landscapes.

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A year ago, Laura's husband died. He is buried in the graveyard behind the marital home, where Laura still lives. But Laura has decided that it is time to move on at last - to sell the house. The night before the anniversary, a strange and unsettling visitor comes to the house. How can Laura discover what it wants?

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Under the bombs, a woman searches for her son. A man accompanies her. They have nothing in common. Toni is Christian and dreams of leaving the country. Zeina is Shiite, and has emigrated to Dubai. Back in Lebanon to try and save her son, she realizes she doesn't want to leave anymore. Toni and Zeina fall in love each other, as a kind of response to the death striking all around them.
 

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A day in the life of Liverpool's madcap Potts family, in a boy meets girls tale with a difference. Social surrealism, written collaboratively by a community from Garston - south Liverpool.

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In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've got to take the prize - but there can be only one winner.

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Arriving without her husband for reasons that are at first unexplained, Anna enters the cosy world of a bourgeois family on holiday. In her mid-40s with no children of her own, Anna is unrelated to this extended family, which belongs to her old school friend Verena. 
 
Phone calls to her husband Alex reveal a rift in their marriage, hiding an unspoken sadness in both their lives. In a series of subtle ellipses, and with a deliberate avoidance of melodrama, we observe Anna as she rejects the company of the adults, in favour of the carefree teenagers. They seem to fill an empty space in her life. Through Anna's awkward attempts to join in with the teenagers' escapades, she unwittingly becomes the centre of a breakdown within the family, and finds herself shunned by everyone. She attempts to find solace through phone calls to her husband Alex but is met by jealousy and suspicion. 
 
Anna retreats to an anonymous hotel room, where Verena visits her, and Anna's untold story finally emerges. Her curious behaviour appears in a new light and she now has to pick up the pieces of her relationship with Alex.

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A soleful drama - laced with comedy.

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Usti Opre travels across Central and Eastern Europe showing the inventiveness and stylistic range of Roma musical traditions. With shifting rhythms, Usti Opre travels from Budapest to Serbia. From city to village, concert hall to café – the film challenges our ideas about 'gypsy' culture and rewards us with a rich and engaging musical panorama. Along with 11 accompanists, three musicians form the spiritual and musical core of the film. It is through their musical ideas and cultural backgrounds that the structural cloth of Usti Opre is woven together. Conversations between musicians and amongst friends appear in counterpoint to the music. The intimacy that surrounds what we are hearing broadens our understanding of music and artist.

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This final degree film deals with themes of metamorphosis, the Uncanny and dark urges. It's a stop motion cathartic exploration of dream or reality.

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Terry is an average gay guy, searching for love, but hardly noticed in a looks and body orientated London gay scene.

Coming home alone from a night of clubbing - again - Terry logs on to one of the many gay pick up sites available on the Internet.

With nothing but sleazy men, timewasters and strange men on line, Terry almost gives up on meeting the man of his dreams until a magic website promises him otherwise.

Suddenly given the powers to change his body to anything he describes himself as on-line, Terry starts to conjure up an array of gorgeous looks for himself. But as he embarks on a string of sexual encounters, Terry has to discover the hard way that beauty really is only skin deep.