Projects in categories: Fiction

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Senseless unfolds as an affluent business man (Jason Behr) finds himself the unwilling hostage to political extremists who brutally torture him for acts he has no recollection of ever committing. Audiences of blood-thirsty home viewers fixate on their computer screens as his torment is streamed across the internet and delivers the most graphic and disturbing reality show ever to be broadcast.

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Every boy has a secret,
Every man has a dream,
Every nightmare has a meaning.

When Robert falls for Alice they are the perfect couple, for both of them this is a 'once in a lifetime' love. But when Alice falls pregnant, it triggers in Robert a horrific nightmare. Misunderstood by the people closest to him, a wall of silence grows around him and with the birth of his son he is catapulted into the abyss of losing everything he loves. Terrified by what is happening, Robert spirals downwards, where he discovers the truth about himself. This psychological drama encapsulates the intensity of films like Mystic River. A moving love story, that will resonate with anyone who has struggled with the difficult things they inherit from childhood.
 

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She Should Have Gone To The Moon tells the astonishing story of the pilot and pioneer, Jerri Truhill, who was trained in 1961, as part of NASA's top secret Mercury 13 programme, to become one of the First Lady Astronauts.

The documentary is about Jerri Truhill's ambition to conquer the unknown and the filmmaker's fascination with a woman who dared to break down all barriers in aviation. Set against a momentous era in American history, the film constructs both an intimate portrait of Truhill and explores a unique chapter in American culture and society.

In the film, the sharp-witted Jerri Truhill looks back on her compelling life via a phone call with the filmmaker. This conversation becomes the catalyst for the director's imagining of key events in Truhill's potent narrative and inspires a journey to meet the heroine in Texas.
Along the way, the filmmaker places herself in Truhill's story, first wandering across the surreal landscape of White Sands and then suspended in zero gravity inside a water tank.

Included are stylized and dreamlike scenes, which are counter pointed by shots from both Truhill's and NASA's film archive.

The various strands produce the film's heady timeline, as they circle through real and imagined spaces and merge into a bittersweet interview with Truhill at her home.

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A teenage girl living in a remote petrol station in the Scottish Highlands is taken closer than ever to the edge of the road and her desire to escape when a salesman stops and offers her a taste of the outside world.

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A child's imagination is a powerful thing. It can change the world as we see it into a world they wish for.

Billy's Grannie is a witch, and now he must tell the whole class about her.

Is the story he tells real, or the work of his imagination?

You decide.

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It is the summer of '66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. Bernie's family, however, are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their errant older son's bad behaviour, so much so that the scale of Bernie’s Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds, Bernie’s longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster.

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This Inuit folktale tells of an unfortunate woman, who was thrown off a cliff into the icy ocean by her father. The motive for this deed remains untold.

As many years go by, she becomes a skeleton, haunting that part of the sea. A young brave fisherman ventures into the area despite the local superstition and fear, and unwittingly hooks the skeleton. Linked by the entangled fishing-line, the fisherman races back to shore in panic. The skeleton follows him home, and the young fisherman's compassion overcomes fear. He provides warmth and shelter, and as he sleeps she plays on a magical drum (his heart) and sings back her human shape.
They fall in love and live happily ever after.

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A battered wife gets a once in lifetime chance to change her life, when her husband suddenly chokes on the food he is eating in the middle of them having dinner.

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An absurd tragedy, to accompany a melancholy song by the Tiger Lillies.
 

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When Mob boss Primo Sparazza took out a $1 million contract on Buddy ‘Aces’ Israel (Jeremy Piven), a sleazy magician who agreed to turn state’s evidence against the Vegas mob, word spread quickly throughout the criminal underworld. Bounty hunters, thugs-for-hire, smokin’ hot vixens and double-crossing mobsters all joined in the hunt. The FBI, sensing a chance to use Aces to bring down Sparazza, placed him into protective custody – under the supervision of two agents (Ryan Reynolds and Ray Liotta) who were dispatched to Aces’ casino hideout. With all eyes on Tahoe, a wave of various hired 'guns' collide in a darkly comic race to hit the jackpot and rub out Aces, all while the FBI is trying to keep him alive.

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When a young woman, Beth, has problems trying to sleep, she visits psychoanalyst Dr Miller who suggests that she films herself sleeping in order for him to assess her sleeping patterns. When a technical fault interrupts his viewing of the tape, Dr Miller calls Beth to ask her to repeat the process, but in doing so misses a vital piece of footage that could hold the key to saving her from her nightmares.

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A dark and delicious story exploring a well know fairy tale. A screenplay by James Clarke and directed by Jamie Duncombe.