Projects in categories: Fiction

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Artificial Worlds is the end of the world in a short film. Apocalyptic and nihilstic it shows the world in freefall. Focussing on a group of eight anonymous souls we witness their last ditch efforts to survive.

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Giles and Carole have been living together for some time now. Late twenties, professional, successful and life is treating them well. However their relationship has become a bit of a routine. Their feelings have become convenient rather than emotional.

Carole is off to a conference with her boss but events make her cut short the trip to talk to Giles. As she gets in the door she sees an ashtray full of cigarette ends; all stained with the same distinctive lipstick shade. Both are incapable of communicating and confronting each other so a game of cat and mouse begins.

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Two astronauts find it increasingly difficult to get along and then one of them discovers a big red button that says 'Do Not Press'.

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The film opens in England, on the hottest day of the summer of 1935. Thirteen year old Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous Victorian Gothic mansion. As the family gathers for the weekend, the combination of the oppressive heat and long suppressed emotions coming to the surface create an ominous sense of threat and danger. Briony, a fledgling writer, is a girl with a vivid imagination. Through a series of catastropic misunderstandings which take place that day, the lives of Briony, her sister and her sister's newfound lover Robbie Turner - who is also the housekeeper's son - will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach, becoming victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt of which will colour her entire life.

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A neo-Nazi skinhead is apprehended because he has attacked two black teenage boys. As we are taken backwards through the story we realise that things may not be as 'Black and White' as they appear.
 
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Karl uses a form of electronic telepathy to spy on his ex-lover, Sarah. Her apartment block is remote, badly lit and in a state of redevelopment. Karl ensconces himself outside in the shadows and uses a radio device to scan the cerebral bandwidth of those in the block until he painfully tunes into Sarah's mind. When he finds her with Paul he uses his electronic puppetry to force her to kill this new lover.

Unable to live with murder, Sarah commits suicide whilst Karl, with the telepathic link still intact, experiences a digital first person perspective of what it is to die.

Automaton is a contemporary re-imagining of Classic Horror, which digitally plots the path of a marked and maddened Peeping Tom.

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Fazaila is a Shia-Muslim teenager from East London whose mum thinks she's becoming 'too English'. This first film by her cousin Heena explores Fazaila's need to find her own way.

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The space race has been dominated for decades by two rival superpowers, but just when they thought they where alone, a new force has arrived. Britain has developed an amazing space exploration buggy that might solve the planets energy problems. But will Britain's greatest achievement become one conmans finest hour?

Will Spencer (Martin Kemp) and his right hand man Tom Marks (Chris Barrie) will re-unite alongside Will's niece Fiona (Joanna Taylor) head of marketing at the British Space Centre, and Travis (Stefan Booth), Tom's accident prone son, in a series of comical misadventures spanning across the United Kingdom and beyond.

In this fun family movie, our unlikely heroes will create a plan the likes of which the world has never before seen, to steal what every government wants. And the only person standing in their way is Scotland Yard's worst detective (Dennis Waterman). Together they will use the UK's highly developed space technology to outsmart the world's most powerful ambassadors, and ulitmately help put the 'Great' back into Great Britain.
 

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Countess Bathory has been called the greatest murderess of history but no evidence has ever been found to prove the accusations. The film aims to settle the score by telling the story as it should be heard, within its historical context.

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A macabre tale of a line-dancing yellow bear's revenge.

A man wakes up to discover his brain lurking under the bed. Without his memories he is reduced to a bundle of primal fears; the fear of dark and shadows and of teeth and claws.

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Beating the Dog, follows the attempts of DCI Bob Costigan in his relentless pursuit of the serial killer known as the Dog.

As the body count grows, Costigan is forced to use increasingly unorthodox methods to trap the killer. As the net closes in, he is forced to confront the darkest sides of the human mind.

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Becoming Jane tells the story of the true love affair that inspired the young Jane Austen to become a writer. When the 20 year-old Austen meets the brilliant, roguish and attractive young Irishman Tom Lefroy, she falls madly in love. This little-known but true story was the turning point in Jane becoming the greatest romantic writer in English literature.
The film presents a fresh and surprising view of Jane's early years. Her romantic adventure with Tom inspired many of the male characters in her celebrated novels.