Projects in categories: Fiction

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Half Term is a powerful study of one boy's journey into the treacherous terrain of manhood. Mark's entire future seems to implode on one week's nightmare holiday visit to his absent father in remote coastal Cornwall, a visit that will change his life forever.

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Hamlet is a ghost story - so why has nobody ever told it as one? In Fodor's Hamlet emphasis is put on the nightmarish ether of the play, setting it in a surrealistic no-man's land. Rather than following traditional, schoolbook definitions of characters, these are ripped apart. So, for example, the traditionally weak Ophelia, is now dominated by her elder sister Polonia (normally a male comic role) who supplies her with addictive drugs to cement that control. Hamlet's father, The Ghost (normally an heroic victim) is now a vicious psychopath, manipulating his own son to gain brutal vengeance on his murderer, Claudius. And yet not a single line is added or changed, the difference is how they are delivered - naturalistically with the emphasis on making sure an audience who may never even have heard a single line of Shakespeare accept it as though it is merely an alternative accent of English.  

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Who watches the watcher? A tricky assignment from the files of Child Support Agency investigator Emma Lewis.

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A 'feinschmecker' tries to seize his last chance of happiness with a beautiful street performer who models herself after Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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Haven is an afterlife love story between two jaded spirits. A young man is dragged along a bridge by two men and thrown over the side. His name is Tom and the dark afterlife he awakes in will never be the same. Tom meets a beautiful but haunted young woman. Together they attempt to overcome the past in a place built out of secrets. Haven incorporates black box performance with innovative camera work and animation. Lino-cuts and prints by artist Trevor Haddrell create the architecture of the afterlife. Memories from life back in the world are shown through the eyes of the characters using a specially designed camera apparatus. The film boasts a gripping original soundtrack by the post-industrial band Mindless Faith.  

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Heavy Metal Drummer is a celebration of rock music in the Arab world. The film tells the story of a teenage boy who is the only heavy metal fan in town. He spends his weekends playing traditional ballads in a wedding band with his two cousins but dreams of playing thrash metal and headlining Monsters of Rock.

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A string of unfortunate coincidences plague a travelling salesman trying to leave the desert.

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Running back through his life, Home tells the story of how a man ended up living on the streets.

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Horn OK Please follows a momentous day in the life of an Indian taxi driver who chases his dream of driving an air-conditioned car.

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in 1905, Women in Queensland got the vote. Banned from male only pubs and bars, certain Women met in secret every full moon to talk politics and drink. One hundred years later, the civilised centenary of this infamous club takes place. However, events take a turn back to the old days, when a notorious guest finally arrives.

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How Would You Feel?

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A young man in southern China has killed his lover. He starts a lonely escape across the whole country towards his land of wonder, a snowy village at the northern border. Sitting at his desk in Beijing, a scriptwriter is writing that man's story. It is through his characters that his life gains its weight, meaning and freedom. His imagination blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction. The snowy village lies on the quiet border between China and Russia. Old villagers fish under the ice, school children study English text about America. They endure the long winter nights waiting for the sun to come back. When the scriptwriter arrives in that mysterious village, he meets his own fictional character, lying on the frozen river at the border, covered in snow. Two men contemplate the icy landscape. One wants to cross the border to see the other side of the world. The other longs to head back to his hometown, which he left so many years ago.