Projects in categories: Fiction

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A staggering range of music captures the spirit of extraordinary world changes over the last 30 years.

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Too slow for a runner. Too fast to be just a Jogger 'Loner' Buddy rants his way into a dark middle-aged depression on his daily run through the park. Haunted by the realisation his 'best years' have been stolen by his obsession with the stopwatch. Vaseline, and some old punk records.

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Dave wants to talk to God about their relationship; a partnership which is still in its infancy. Dave's been out with weird girls before. Dave arranges a meeting in an inconspicuous café where they can both lay their cards on the table and watch her world pass them by.

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A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly suspect and sinister.

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Filmed over the course of 18 turbulent months in Scotland that took in a race murder, the G8 summit and the London bombings, Good Cop follows Strathclyde Police's Race Relations co-ordinator, Chief Inspector Tom Harrigan about his work in Glasgow, one of Europe's toughest cities. Filmmakers Doug Aubrey and Marie Olesen gained unique access to Tom in his final year before retirement after 29 years service in the Police, and captured a remarkable insight into a maverick Police Officer and his often unorthodox working methods. 'There's only one race so how can you co-ordinate one race?' (Tom Harrigan).

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Two elderly gentlemen go for a day's painting in the beautiful English countryside. Their world is turned upside-down when a gun-toting clown arrives on the scene.

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A scruffy saleman sneaks into an art gallery opening party armed with the latest fashionable commodities.

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A surreal short film set in the ruins of London, driven by a contemporary music-hall libretto. The film contrasts the beautiful and grotesque in a narrative focusing on the universal question - are our lives driven by destiny or chance? This powerful short narrative embodies key aspects of the classic Gothic tale, with echoes of Du Maurier's Trilby and Le Fanu's dark stories. The mystery of the 'true' nightmare of the narrative is left to the viewer to decide.

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Green Pages is a futuristic comedy, an adaptation of the phone book! A man and a woman working for the Green Pages Data Entry Department, meet, fall in love, make love, fall out, hate each other and they never speak a single line of dialogue. Nothing but entries into the phone book - name, address, telephone number, again and again. The film is executed in a single 15 minute take.

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After unprecedented rainfall the desert of Death Valley burst into flower. Unseen in living memory, the flowers drew tourists from around the world. Greetings from Death Valley tells three stories from this forgotten landscape. From the last two residents in a gold rush town. From a village at the edge of a lake dried up to feed water to the distant city of Los Angeles. From the proposed site of the dump for all of the USA's nuclear waste. Told through the voices of residents living with the consequences of these events, the film is three postcards from places America would rather ignore.

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Guilfest has been running since 1993 in Guildford, Surrey UK. Acts in previous years have included Paul Weller, Jools Holland, and Van Morrison. The Documentary covers more than just the music, with interviews, history of the music festival, musical acts, and a true insight into how an independent music festival is produced. A different angle on modern day music festival documentaries, cameras were given out to festival goers to record their experiences over the three days.

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Set on a militant horticultural nursery, Guilty By Nature follows the life cycle of a wild and vigorous shrub; exploring ideas of individuality and persecution. The film is shot with extreme close-ups, varied frame rates and an exaggerated soundscape.