Projects in categories: Fiction

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Attacked on all sides by monsters of his own making, the film records the attempts of the protagonist to get to sleep.

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The idealist William Wilberforce manoeuvres his way through Parliament in 18th century England, endeavouring to end slavery in the empire.

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A nervous young American flees a psychotic girlfriend and escapes to London. Befriended by an 'Artful Dodger' charity worker, will he be able to get escape the crazy ex, battle his way through putting the pieces of his life back together and find the girl of his dreams?

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An Eye for a Tooth tells the story of two families interwoven over several generations. Most family members place honor above everything, while a courageous few believe it is wiser to question tradition. Efkan, a successful businessman living in London, finds his comfortable life in turmoil when he finds out that he is the target of a killer. An unknown assassin from his native Turkey wants to kill him to satisfy a generation-old blood feud. Charlotte, Efkan's wife, this code of revenge, and fears that their 5-year-old son could become a victim of this ancient tradition.

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Bored at home, a young teenage girl resorts to playing with an apparently normal wind-up toy car, only to find herself being driven on an unexpected adventure!

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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.   Watch on BBC Film Network.

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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.