Projects in categories: Fiction

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A wry animated documentary about how Holocaust tourism distorts history. A whistlestop tour from Auschwitz hot-dogs to Krakow's kitsch Judaica.  

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The Idea is a comical satire of modern society and our inability to listen. It is also a study of contemporary society's insensitivity towards the expression of new ideas and not being willing to give them the appropriate space to grow and form. Rather than asking the right questions, crowding them out with trivial concerns and noisy vacuous statements. Although, in this instance, we drew from archetypal figures of a particular group of people, the message is universal and equally applies to all groups and denominations.

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The Journalist and the Jihadi tracks the parrallel lives of Daniel Pearl the Wall Street journalist and the Islamic jihadi Omar Sheikh. Both men were highly educated and came from priviliged backgrounds and both passionately committed to fixing the wrongs of the world. One was born in the US and the other in London. September 11 changed the world and put these two on a path that would eventually end in tragedy. The film documents the events leading to Daniel's gruesome murder and the way his death is still affecting his family.

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When a child finds herself lost in 'the plaza', an ambiguous place isolated between heaven and earth, an old man appears to help - But it's the old man who must learn to take the final steps to freedom.

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The Killing of John Lennon, is a chilling insight into the mind of Mark David Chapman the 25 year old narcissist who gunned down John Lennon outside his Dakota Apartment in New York in 1980. Meticulously researched and filmed on actual locations in Hawaii, Decatur Georgia and New York it is a gritty and imagistic examination of a celebrity stalker's mind leading up to the kill. The film is more than a chronicle of one man's desperate act, it explores the razor-thin lines between art and insanity, between the drive to create and the compulsion to destroy.  Its theme of bomb-ticking loneliness and, by extension, the notion that America as a nation seems to foster angry strangers who vent paranoid resentment towards public figures couldn't be more resonant today.

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So that's where everything disappears to.

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Double-crosses and martial arts action follow the arrival of an advanced handgun - the McGoughain M233 - in this lighthearted short thriller.

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The tale of a middle aged stand-up comedians search for fame and fortune, whilst battling, debt, depression and a growing dependancy on alcohol. The film charts his on and off stage highs and lows, until he finally finds, fame, fortune and love.

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What's the punishment for stealing a toy? A ticking off? A jail sentence? Or perhaps your soul? A cautionary tale for the light fingered.

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A provoking blend of European arthouse sensibilities combined with the tight plotting and disturbing violence of films by the likes of Shinya Tsukamoto, Chan-Wook Park and Kim Ki Duk, The Living And The Dead is a horrowing and hardcore British film that will genuinely unnerve its audience.

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'Mister Jim' is how the employees respectfully addressed their boss Jim Hardy, the last Hardy to work in the family business and now retired. It was Jim's Grandfather and Greatuncle, who in 1873 opened a small shop in the far north of England. Both passionate fisherman, they invented fishing tackle and began to sell it. Their skill, devotion, and innovative marketing strategies allowed them to conquer the world. The name Hardy's has now been synonymous with fishing for 130 years. Vintage Hardy's handmade tackle stirs the heart of many a fisherman with Prince Charles amongst the enthusiasts, these are now prized collectors items. Today the skills involved in hand made fishing tackle are dying although the company does survive. Under Hardy's and Grey, Richard Sanderson, current managing director has adapted the company to the modern world, made redundancies and transferred most of the production to China. Mister Jim takes us on a journey through fast fading times to recreate this charming old family business loved the world over. We follow through changing times and the struggle to survive as a sustainable business in a modern world. Are the original values the Hardy Brothers held dear all now lost in our modern world of capitalist globalisation?  

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One of the world’s best-loved operas, in the hands of director Kenneth Branagh and librettist Stephen Fry, The Magic Flute will be a cinematic experience both epic in scale and visionary in its interpretation. On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit of love, light and peace in a world afflicted by darkness, death and destruction.