Projects in categories: Fiction

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Following London's bid for the Olympic Games, sport is once again gaining popularity here, producing newly energised competitors. In this brief 'documentary' we are introduced to Colin Sprockett - one such committed athlete, as he prepares for the UK National Championships in that most difficult of modern sports. Sudoku.

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A decommissioned revolver is brought back into circulation when Adam Campbell purchases it online. When the revolver is stolen it triggers a chain of events that will come back to haunt him.

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Gregg is a shy supermarket shelf-stacker with a stutter. Hoping to impress sexy checkout girl Sarah, he joins her drama club and lands a small part in their next play. His determination to overcome his affliction and perfect his performance gets him noticed and leads to an unforgettable first night.

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A solitary woman and a lonely man. Over the years, they have grown apart, unable to talk. In the loneliness of the night, at work, she finds comfort in a mysterious voice, at the other end of a telephone line, a man whose face she'll never see or will she?

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Harmony and chaos meet in a mechanism of rythms and lights. The birth and death of a surreal environment in which familiar game-like rules drive the action's tightly synchronised evolution. A single oscillating dot becomes an abstract musical machine which plays itself using glowing orbs before exploding into particles which collapse together as the cycle completes.

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From 12th-century China, to 21st-century London, a parable of life. In Ten Bulls, Kim Bour has taken the Chinese master Kakuan's illustrated fable of the herdsman in search of the elusive bull, and presented it as modern epic of mankind's struggle for understanding. Trapped by modern life, we sway aimlessly, seeking purpose and true satisfaction. Ten Bulls tracks one man's search for this truth. Through rich sound design and flowing imagery, Kim Bour leads us through an almost meditative illustration of this timeless quest. Rich and mystical, yet controlled, Ten Bulls melds the harmony of Zen philosophy and film-making: the simplicity that we see all around us - a petal in a stream, a perfect circle - all blend in a modern meditation. To find, we must seek. The unexamined life is worthless. 'I find the world in me'.  

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A year after the premature death of his young wife, from cancer, Ben Wright is struggling to come to terms with his loss. On the anniversary of her death, he is visited by a familiar face from the past who helps him to address his predicament.

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What really happens at a film premiere? 2EYESopen exposes the harsh reality on both sides of the red carpet; the intense adulation lavished upon the superstar while a person deemed unacceptable is dragged from the crowd.

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Three stories in a launderette over one washing cycle. The first is about a bride and a young boy. The second about an unhappy married woman and her daughter. The third about a young couple.

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33x Around the Sun follows the wanderings of a man on the nocturnal backstreets of London. It describes a dreamlike search for love that is loosely based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

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Until 25 years ago, the Kirghiz tribe lived a quasi-Iron Age existence in one of the remotest places on earth. Now, having migrated an amazing five times, they live in Turkey, a tribe divided. Those over 30 pine for their nomadic history and the rugged mountains of their homeland; the young have a modern education and live in a world of pop music and internet cafés. A feature-length mix of the ethnographic and authored documentary forms, the collaboration between distinctive director Ben Hopkins and the Kirghiz tribe makes this film a unique record of a unique people.

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Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment all plague people of African descent globally. Why? Five hundred years from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedoms. Why? Filmed in five continents, 500 Years Later examines the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 500 Years Later is a timeless and compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right – freedom.