Projects in categories: Fiction

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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.

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One Night. Two Cloakroom Attendents. Three Bouncers. Four Bar Staff. Five Hours of Madness! Every weekend the streets surge with crowds looking for love, music and oblivion. Social Work is about the people who provide it to them -- those faceless heroes whose Monday morning is other people's Friday night. It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. The film takes place over one Saturday night shift in a seedy nightclub and centres on Lee and Andy, who run the cloakroom. The club is the kind that people go to in every city and town all over the country. Andy and Lee are the Cloakroom Attendants, having worked there for the longest anyone has ever managed to, ruling it like their own little cubby-hole of a kingdom. It is their world. Everyone who enters the nightclub, almost invariably has to go through the ritual of leaving in their coats and unwanted belongings under the care of Andy and Lee. Under the ever-watching eye of the arrogant, slimey Club-owner Barry, they do their best to have a great night and make a little extra dosh with their cloakroom scams. The Staff and Clubbers find themselves intertwining, as each life has an unexpected impact on another. Lee and Andy find that their little cloakroom is a centre-point for many unforeseeable developments as they transpire throughout the night.

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Thirtysomething photographer David has for some time been happily dating Lisa, but increasingly he's dreaming of Nina, a tempestuous free spirit who seems to represent everything his loving, stable girlfriend is not. So what's a man to do? A funny, sad and honest look at the male gender's seemingly infinite capacity for self-deception.   "A small pearl in the gritty ocean of indie Brit grunge, Someone Else is a finely scripted, classily played relationships movie for a connoisseur audience. " (Variety)   Variety Critics' Choice, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2007.

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It ain't East Coast. It ain't West Coast. This is South Coast. Forget the MTV-sponsored images of ghetto superstars and bling - South Coast is a quintessentially British take on hip hop 30 years after it emerged from the Bronx block parties. Three years in the making; this character-driven documentary features a host of engaging characters including Norman Cook (aka Fat Boy Slim), notorious Train Painter, Aroe and irrepressible MC, Buzz; break-dancers on Brighton's pebbled beach; Brighton's first gay rap crew, grimy MCs in word battles with poets; graffiti art galleries, and laid back but incisive rhymes about British seaside life.  

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Kaspar, a struggling writer, wakes to find his world twisted by sleep deprivation and mistaken identity.

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Part one of a trilogy: Lulled by the sensuous sounds of a thunderstorm she seems to fall under a spell which conjures up sensations and feelings so intense that she becomes lost in her own thoughts and oblivious to anything or anyone. But this is not just a response to the extraordinary power of nature.

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Springsummer is a digitally treated short film documenting Kei Kagami's Spring/Summer 04 collection. Fashion photographer Enamul and graphic designer Matt Moate have previously worked together on numerous photographic projects but this film represents their first collaboration in moving image. Springsummer seeks to explore the emotive undercurrents of Kagami's groundbreaking work in a delicate fusion of imagery and abstraction played out to a blistering original soundtrack by sound designer Rob Mullender.

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A working-class kid navigates through his turbulent first year at university. On his way to achieving his long-held ambition to appear on University Challenge, he falls in love with his beautiful teammate and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills. A coming of age comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.