Projects in categories: Fiction

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With one man's ambition (John Howard, STD Chairman) to create the foremost memory challenge competition in the UK, the STD Championships, and another man's dream (Tarquin Smith) to become the 2005 champion, The STDers follows the highs and lows in the run-up and during this annual event.

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Manchester is torn apart as a vigilante known only as The Boxer bludgeons through the city's criminal element, leaving a trail of broken bodies in his wake. An army of drug addicts, under the messianic leadership of The Needler, terrorises the city. The police are powerless to stop them. The line between good and evil blurs into one as both factions battle for the soul of the city in this cutting-edge mix of live action and animation.  

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Jonny finds out that smoking can be harzardous to your health in more ways than you'd think. No wonder the Surgeon General thinks it's unsafe.

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A lonely tailor despairs at the results of his terrible curse.

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Based around an underground London location known as 'The Tardis', this mini documentary follows the lives of three young Asians who break the mould. The audience is invited into the recesses of this amazing subterranean complex which plays host to gangster and celebrity parties alike, and all under the ever-watchful eye of Jesus the resident parrot!

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The happy vegetables get their own show, but their clumsy dancing leads to severe maiming and revenge.

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It all began so innocently for two children growing up in the deepest countryside, their imaginations set ablaze by a book on local myths and legends. Berenice convinces her younger brother Brian that she is the reincarnation of a witch with the powers to put everything right. As they grow up Brian becomes emotionally dependent on his sister, so that when she returns to the family home for Christmas with her new boyfriend he feels totally betrayed. At the same time a man strongly resembling the mythical Jake the Mid-Folker is closing in. An overwhelming sense of impending horror surrounds the house, but is the enemy outside - or is the enemy within?

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The Trousseau is a moving story of a young British woman Ama, who returns to her birthplace in Ghana after receiving news of her mother's sudden death. She is met by her three stern clanswomen who doubt very much if she capable of taking the place of her frail grandmother during the funeral preparations. Defying tradition she proves them wrong and begins to find expression of her grief in the ritual preceding the funeral, ensuring that her mother appears in death as she did in life.

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The Truth is an outrageous murder-mystery for the 'Me Generation'. Seven strangers go to a remote retreat for a week of soul-searching. Encouraged to tell the truth at all times by their guru Donna Shuck, they venture on a spiritual journey of personal growth, taking in jealousy, hatred, sex, perversion and a little murder on the way.

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Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven years earlier. Soon the crew are fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.

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On the eve of war in Bosnia, Stevo and Ramiz are sent home from school, oblivious to the encroaching danger. They play in an abandoned hill fort pretending to be pirates looking for treasure. But instead of gold they find a gun and overnight both their lives are changed forever.

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Ireland 1920: workers from field and country unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face the ruthless 'Black and Tan' squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland's bid for independence. Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy, in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side find themselves pitted against one another as sworn enemies, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test.