Projects in categories: Fiction

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Did he commit suicide or did reality kill itself? Guy meditates on the meaning of his decision, the memories of existence still fresh on his skin. The lasting sensations of the world’s all-consuming consumption burned in his mind. Guy wants no part of it, and the world no part of him.

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Alex Rider is a normal teenager who lives with his uncle, a boring bank manager. Or so it seems until Ian Rider dies in mysterious circumstances. Alex discovers his uncle was in fact a spy and has been murdered by one of the most dangerous assassins in the world. Recruited into MI6, the schoolboy is thrust into the world of espionage. Linguist, scuba diver, mountaineer, crack shot and martial arts expert, Alex has all the attributes required to make the perfect teenage super spy. Armed with his own set of special gadgets he embarks on his first mission.  

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This is the feature debut of award-winning conflict documentary maker Dan Reed. With Straightheads, a product of his own post-traumatic stress after experiences in Kosovo and South Africa, Reed has created a dark and twisted tale which rips two ordinary people from their comfort zone and propels them on a mission of violence and revenge.   Returning from a night of partying in a lavish country house, a fateful encounter catapults Alice and Adam into the path of a brutal and unprovoked attack which leaves them both emotionally and physically scarred. Unable to overcome the trauma, and with the police incapable of bringing their attackers to justice, the couple decide the only possible path to recovery is revenge, of the purest variety: an eye for an eye. But when closing in on their victim, they discover an unexpected motive behind their own attack.  

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Two teenage girls go to town. They are determined for their day to be an adventure. Believing they are grown up and in control, they test the boundaries of the adult world until they are exposed.

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Across one lazy afternoon an ageing beekeeper sifts through 50-year-old memories of spiteful outbursts and awkward social exchanges, recounting her deepening relationship with the honeybees at the bottom of her garden. As her reminiscences progress, she pieces together a journey from garden saboteur to tranquil and reclusive misanthrope. A vision of England that is provincial, sexually charged and potty-mouthed.

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A sunny Sunday in 1960. Eight-year-old Derek is playing cowboy games with his friend Tony when Derek's dad turns up speaking gibberish and in need of some help. Young as he is, Derek finds the solution to the problem is in his hands.

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A ghost story. Set in the 1940s. Inspired by Bill Brandt's photography and classic English black and white movies such as The Innocents and Seance on a Wet Afternoon.

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A sweet young Japanese girl, Sayuri, separately seduces three English guys in this stylised Japanese short.

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Swimmer is an unflinching and revelatory look at adolescent sexual obsession at its most dark and disturbing. This shattering drama opens with a prologue from the protagonist, a 14-year-old boy, revealing his undeclared crush on a woman twice his age and a harrowing determination to make her his own. When he fails to approach her, he seethes with frustrated desires. What follows is an uncompromising portrait of the struggles of a former potential Olympic swimming champion who now lives a reclusive life cloistered in her flat next to the boy's. He, unseen, patiently observing, becomes obsessed with the swimmer, provoking perverted sexual fantasies that lead to intense behaviour within him, bordering on the misogynistic. He ultimately turns her already troubled life upside down when their paths accidentally cross. The boy manipulates his way into her heart. Both are emotionally fragile and fetishes abound in the teenager's mind. It isn't long before his desires become inexorable and he sets out to destroy what he can't have, leading to an explosive, nail-biting climax.

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Joshua and Blake are two close friends who operate in the kill or be killed world of the professional assassin. Joshua is the seasoned pro whilst Blake is the younger protégé looking for a way out. The sinister world in which they move conspires to test their professional discipline as well as their friendship.

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In Tarzan of Bounds Green, Eric Bromberger remembers the day he watched Johnny Weissmuller dive at his local pool, in a special one-off performance. Today, the pool is a garden centre. Who, among those buying their pot plants and compost, would imagine that Tarzan had been here?

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Kelly is 15, streetwise and smart with plans for her future: a future that will take her beyond the harsh world of the London council estate on which she lives. Kes, a young journalist, tracks her life over four days, introduced to the good and the bad of her daily grind. With a feature article to write on this enigmatic teenager, he completes his task, only to find out that he could not have been further from the truth.