Projects in categories: Fiction

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Adam leaves his hometown in Poland and hitches to London to find his long-lost brother and build a new life. The city is cold and dangerous but it’s a magnet for migrants from all over Europe who have come to make their fortune. Adam meets a beautiful Russian girl, Anna, who works illegally to support her family back home. Adam finds his big brother, Jan, who works supplying illegal foreign labour to construction sites.  Jan has everything – wealth, status and women. Adam is drawn into the glamorous life but is soon dragged down into the corruption at the heart of Jan’s world. After a brutal death at the building site, Jan is hounded by the police. Adam protects him but discovers shocking evidence of Jan's guilt. The police arrest Anna and force Adam to make the most difficult decision of his life: betray his brother or watch Anna be deported as an illegal.  

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Betrayed by their government and let down by the law, a renegade gang set out to right the wrongs of the world in Nick Love's Outlaw. Under the charge of war-veteran Danny Bryant (Bean) and assisted by Lewis (Hoskins), a disheartened cop, this assortment of dejected individuals form a modern-day outlaw posse to avenge the criminal underworld and enforce their own brand of justice. Gaining notoriety in their quest, the group, once disregarded by all, become public icons. It's only when their celebrity exceeds their success that the Outlaw legacy is destroyed. A provocative, contemporary thriller, Outlaw explores the roots of people's shattered lives and reveals what happens when victims of crime seek revenge by taking the law into their own hands.

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Ignored by her mother, a little girl lets her imagination runs wild.

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Tensions mount in surely the shortest game ever, as match emotions and park life are merged and condensed into mere minutes though the simple yet hugely evocative animation by regular studio aka animator Orchard.

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Penelope suffers from an old family curse - she was born with the face of a pig. Consumed with keeping her from the outside world and reversing the curse, Penelope's parents believe that if they can marry Penelope to 'one of her own kind,' i.e. a blue blood, the curse will be lifted. The problem is that when suitors see Penelope they run away in terror. To master this fact, suitors must sign a non-disclosure form before they meet her, but still they cannot get her married. One suitor, Edward Vanderman, flees before they can get him to sign. He tries to tell the world of the horror he has witnessed, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Everyone except Mr Lemon, a reporter who believes in the curse and has been trying to get a photo for many years. With the impetus he needs to revisit the story, Lemon decides to send a dummy suitor - a known blue blood - to get pictures. Enter Max Campion - a handsome young blue blood in desperate need of money. What Lemon and Edward don't count on is Max falling for Penelope and the power of true love to set fantastic things in motion.

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Peppermint is a present day drama about Beth, a young teenager whose life is a difficult mix of emerging sexuality, turbulent relationships and personal insecurity. The story circles around Beth's attempt to validate herself in the eyes of her competitive mother Ann, resulting in a series of shocking revelations which unfold in the space of one difficult day. Caught in the emotional crossfire are Mike and Nan, the people closest to the pair. Through their interactions emerges a past of parental neglect and irresponsible adulthood, which looks inevitably set to repeat itself.  

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Set in 1973. single Dad, Jimmy focuses all his energies on the welfare of his eight-year-old daughter, Laura. When he sees her being bullied on the way to school he intervenes, but in doing so misses a court appearance. As Jimmy and Laura escape to the countryside they have no way of knowing how their perfect day will end.

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Stuart and Alison have a ten-year-old daughter Lucy. They will do anything to see she gets a good education. It's a ruthless business these days getting the best for your child. For Stuart and Alison it all starts with the best of motives. Stuart gets a wake-up call one day when Lucy witnesses a vicius knife fight at school. He had no idea things had got that bad. He takes Lucy out of school to teach her at home while they search for an alternative. But as they do the rounds they find the others wre worse. Demoralised staff, needles in toilets. They can't put Lucy through that. There's only one school that isn't a war zone. But St Mary's is a Catholic school and they are atheists. End of story. But Lucy encourages them to at least look. All you have to do is pretend. But once the lying starts events soon spiral out of control and blackmail and murder follow.

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Hundreds of beautiful women arrive at an English castle believing they're taking part in a reality game show to marry a gorgeous millionaire, Danny. The reality is the producer James has a surgeon lined up to clone their body parts to build him the perfect woman. However the surgeon Luigi and his nurse Maria have their own secret plan. The presenter Bob Long springs a surprise on the contestants the moment they arrive and soon they realise how brutal the show will be. They have to fight for the right to be the perfect woman in a series of challenges, everything from poll dancing to wrestling. But someone is watching them every single moment. One of the pairs of eyes is the mysterious and strange gardener Stanley, who is obsessed by the lovelies. He falls for the heroine Kara, the contestant with more brains than the other beauties. She is determined to find out what the truth of the show is and why the girls who win the challenges keep disappearing. She soon discovers in the world of reality television nothing is what it appears and payback's a bitch.  

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Performer is an experimental short film made in an unique stylized way. A man runs through a forest. Another figure runs in the distance. They chase each other through a series of environments and through ever increasing obstacles. Finally they face each other head-to-head.

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From sweeping lines the shape of a dancer is revealed, her movement becomes the focus for converging and diverging patterns and shapes. Music interweaves these visual elements, unifying them into a vivid impression of sensuality and movement.

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A surreal adventure into the minds of five phobiacs in a waiting room.