Projects in categories: Fiction

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A free-form poem. A journey through undercurrents of the subconscious. How the creative process occurs, connected with the systems of language. The idea coincides with the process. First it is put into words, words that evolve through a mind maze. An organized chaos with openings to different directions of thought.

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One continuous five-minute take of escalating human drama, captured unwittingly on a camcorder.

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John lives in a world of lost love, where memories of Emily are more resilient than the present. A bravura piece of film-making shot in one fluid take, A Case of You is a deeply ambiguous film with a powerful emotional undercurrent.

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Keith who just had an accident and was in a panic state, suddenly gets his mobile out and randomly presses down on the buttons hoping to ring his house, the phone rings. A young girl of 12 years old, Fiona, picks the phone up and speaks to Keith. Keith tells her to go and tell her mum that dad just had an accident. Her mum then reacts wildly with Uncle Tom.

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Kojo is a taxi driver living and working in Ghana. Sleeping on his break he is awoken by a beautiful young travelling actress called Cynthia. She’s in Ghana for the day and hires Kojo to show her some tourist attractions. The day ends with a sexual encounter and a reluctant promise from Cynthia to invite Kojo to England. Six months later Kojo arrives on Cynthia’s doorstep in London. Filled with ambitions of making money and fulfilling his dreams of succeeding as a poet, he soon realises that the grass isn’t greener on the other side and people are not what they seem.  

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The city of London has a beauty about it, but can sometimes be lonely for its inhabitants. Starting at dusk and ending at dawn the next morning, this film explores this idea of loneliness through four different scenarios showing the full gamut of life and death in the city, and exemplifies how indifference can exacerbate this plague of modern times. Visually expressive and highly emotive, this film, though only five minutes long, works on a scale (visually and emotionally, that is) as big as the city it portrays. It is made using traditional forms of animation, as well as new forms such as computer animation, all skilfully composited together to convey feeling and emotion and life in an intuitive, expressive way.

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Mother lies in bed; her daughter sits nearby in uncomfortable silence. To raise her mother's spirits, the daughter takes her on the imaginary road trip of a lifetime. Mother and daughter travel via Paris and Hollywood, and return home again as friends, without ever having left the room.

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Paul has discovered he's starting losing his hair. He's worried because he thinks he will lose Sarah, his girlfriend, too. He runs to visit a pharmacist and tries a new product, but he will forget to read the small print and the problems will begin.

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Inspired by a true story, A Mind of Her Own tells the poignant and moving tale of Sophie, a determined young girl whose ambition to become a doctor is obstructed by her severe dyslexia. But Sophie, encouraged by her closest friend Becky, has never been one to give up and, despite being advised by parents and school teachers to be realistic and pursue something less academic, she puts herself through college and university, in the process achieving a first-class degree in biomedical science and a PhD conducting research into post-trauma regeneration of the spinal column, which ultimately leads to her achieving worldwide recognition for her work and helping to develop a cure for paralysis. A Mind of Her Own won a Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival in 2005.

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Set in the ancient magical city of Sana'a, Yemen's first-ever feature film follows the lives of a few individuals during a day that soon becomes local legend. The neighbourhood eagerly awaits the wedding of the year, unaware of the inner turmoil of the groom as he realises the woman he fell in love with was not the wealthy bride-to-be, but rather a low class orphan gypsy. Love, gossip and envy irrevocably changes the lives of all those concerned, forever. Ultimately the groom has to make a choice between marriage and tradition or love and the unknown.

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'When I was drinking I thought drink was God. But the truth is, God don't need no alcohol'. Forced into sobriety, Vinny has had to re-invent his very sense of himself. He fully embraces the 12-step programmme of AA and makes it no secret that he owes his newfound strength and direction to allowing it into his life. But in dedicating himself to AA, he has also found the perfect, protected environment for his own twisted ego to flourish and thrive.

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Fabia is insane from lack of sleep. She sets off to buy a large bottle of sleeping pills and a hat for the Easter Fancy Hat Competition. Every sound she hears is amplified and grates on her nerves but unknown to her, other people in the town are suffering too.