Projects in categories: Fiction

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The Technical Hitch is a satirical take on technological failures starring Tikuf, the atomic anomaly. With a stinging narration of rhyming couplets read by acting legend Robert Lindsay, The Technical Hitch reveals the secret menace of modern society; for in Tikuf's world, everything that can go wrong will go wrong!

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The Third Season is a dark story of two strangers recovering from a traumatic experience. As they write postcards from their retreat they pass each other day by day, never knowing they have so much in common.

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In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil.

Forty years later, Betty Beane sets off with the family savings in a hankie and a secret suspicion in her heart, to fulfill the dying wish of her husband and find their long lost son.

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Understudying the flamboyant Tarquin West in hit West End show 'Safari' is something which understudy Justin Bligh approaches with the utmost seriousness. But as Tarquin's behaviour gets more and more outrageous, Justin decides to boost his chances to go on. A black comedy about ambition, humiliation - and cream horns.

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Black comedy about a man who tries to make a fortune by setting up a suicide bureau in a stir-crazy arctic town.

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The Vampires of Bloody Island is a cult British vampire comedy that injects a strong modern humour into the classic vampire films of the Hammer generation.

In her crumbling castle clinging to the rocks of a Cornish island, a vampire noblewoman, Morticia de'Ath (Pamela Kempthorne), aided by an unconventional alchemist Dr N. Sane (John Snelling) and a resurrected corpse, Grunt, (Leon Hamilton) makes a radical scientific discovery of importance to vampires worldwide.

To complete her mission, Morticia commands her dead manservant to lure two innocent soft drink sellers from London towards the deeply superstitious village of Bloody Bay, and the much feared Bloody Island.
Morticia ensnares the pair but is interrupted by the vampire hunter (and ex-window cleaner) Professor Van Rental (Oliver Gray).

Morticia revives her vast and heavily armed vampire army and engages in two similtanious battles: one large, loud and bloody, the other small and deeply personal!

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2015, the last known oil fields have been vanquished by corporation run governments throwing the world into disarray. Out of this apocalyptic nightmare the corporations embark on a course of action to cull the human race and initialise a depopulation programme.
 
But the scientists tasked with this heinous act revolt, thus creating a drug that will keep the human race alive. But with no time to test the drug, humans are left in a state far worse than death. Reduced to a primitive ape-like state, their only instinct is to kill. For they are no longer human, but 'Biosyns'.

Cast adrift to survive alone in the wilderness, Max has learnt to become a hunter/gatherer, living off the land, but under constant threat from the Biosyns. He has forged a life without human contact, a young man living from moment to moment. Soon he learns that the Biosyns are learning to communicate, and are banding together to become the new dominant race, and then Max will have to face a greater number than ever before.

So when he encounters a 'Tracker' (genetically enhanced POWs from the oil wars) his first instinct is to kill him. Surviving the attack, the Tracker reassesses his original mission - track down and kill Max - to take him south to safety - as the Corporation believe Max’s blood may contain the antidote to the Biosyn Holocaust.

And now, if Mankind is to survive, then Max must undertake an odyssey fraught with rampaging Biosyns and deadly Trackers.

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This story takes placed somewhere between the present and the future. Loosely set within the science fiction genre we enter a time when the government have declared societies urban youth as out of control and in need of readjustment. Sighting the medias glamorisation and endorsement of images of cultural resistance, namely hip-hops 'ghetto fabulous' aesthetic as a root cause of the problem, a new antisocial law has been decreed. It has been declared that any unruly youth must be rounded up and literally reprogrammed in order for them to fit more harmoniously into current society. The idea is to first remove from their mind images associated with the 'ghetto fabulous' culture and then implant a microchip containing a standardised alternative that allows them to quietly reintegrate.

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Two complete strangers, Anna (32) and Stephen (30), are brought together by chance by an elderly man named Roger who waits for his wife on a station platform. While they sit together in the deserted waiting room, Roger quietly reminisces about the special things he and his wife did when they were younger. As Stephen and Anna listen they are drawn together and make a connection. Anna is a single mother trying to do the right thing but sucked into a damaging affair with her best friend's husband. Stephen is coasting in a relationship with a partner who suddenly decides she wants a baby. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what is going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions for themselves. If they can change their lives perhaps they can meet again.

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The Wake is a dark comic tale set at the wake of a strange urban hero. The accidental arrival of a man who never knew the deceased sets off a chain of events that will unravel a mystery, a death and a root canal.

Callum Campbell believes he has a gift to bring people together, that fate has chosen him to be an earthbound cupid. He spends his life finding other people their soul mates, but by doing so is left alone.

Hannah Welles is obsessed with death. She views it as a way of seeing life more clearly, and will stop at nothing to have her moment to experience death first hand and value the beauty of life.

Donald Jacobs is mad. In the final few months of his life he dresses as a character from his favourite novels. He becomes the character Sir John Greystone, a Wyrm hunter, and performs acts of bravery and daring do on the streets of London.

The Wake is the story of these three people and how death brings them together.

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In the opulent world of Washington's political upper crust, one man's passion for the good things in life entrench him in a world of betrayal and murder.

Escorting the elegantly coifed but desperately lonely wives and widows of Washington's powerful elite is the favoured pastime of Carter Page III (Harrelson). Whether to the opera or dinner, or for a game of cards, Carter is their most sought after and willing companion.

When his best friend Lynn Lockner (Scott Thomas) - the beautiful, smart, adoring wife of a Senator-discovers her lover has been brutally murdered, she instinctively turns to Carter for help.

Caught in a web of intrigue and mixed motives, Carter suddenly finds himself implicated in the killing. As his friends desert him and the net grows tighter, he must race against time to find a way to clear his name.

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A hard-hitting feature documentary from award winning writer-director John Pilger.

For decades Latin America's attempts at democracy have been repressed by the US. Using meticulous research, previously unseen footage and reconstructions, The War on Democracy charts how one by one these countries are fighting back and triumphing as they take control of their own destinies.