Projects in categories: Fiction

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Either a Marxist fable for capitalist converts or a long-distance runner's anxiety dream.

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1855. An English cavalryman returns from the Crimean intent on marrying his sweetheart, only to find she is expected to wed another. To resolve the issue he accepts the challenge of a duel; for a love you would not die for is no love at all.

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An accident takes place in a busy London street. A crowd gathers, panic and apathy ensue as private fears are made public in an elliptical and fragmentary way. Events cluminate in a moment of decision for one of the main characters, and we are left to consider the influences that have shaped our city life.
 

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An animated re-telling of the classical myth of Actaeon. A hunter is separated from his companions in an unknown part of the woods at sunset. In a forest of mirrors, he stumbles across the grove of a divinity or demon, and is violently punished for his trespass.

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A documentary film crew spend a week in the company of three unknown actors, living in a rented house in Manchester. Egotistical Steve has just moved in and thinks he’s going to be the next James Dean. Quiet Peter has secrets and just wants to be a chef. Serious Melissa is celibate and loves the theatre. Fun ensues for all but Steve. This mockumentary has a similar feel to The Office.

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Afterlife is a film about love and filial responsibility. It's the story of two siblings, Kenny and Roberta Brogan. Kenny is an ambitious young journalist, standing on the brink of a fantastic career opportunity in New York. Roberta has Down's syndrome and still lives at home with their mother, May. Two very different siblings. Two very different lives. But everything is about to change when tragedy strikes and they are forced to reassess their future.

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Almost is an account of a decade in the life of Tom, Catherine, Frank and Dian, 30 year-old friends who grew up together in Maidenhead. We observe them struggling to reassess their position on love, poverty, parenthood, Italian coffee, dirty dishes, sex, real estate, multi-cultural London and gardening.

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Naomi and Gary: They are a modern day couple. During the course of their story Naomi's emotional memories flood back and shatter the moment. Simon and Natalie: Simon helps Natalie at a taxi rank. The situation turns tense due to Natalie giving Simon a bogus phone number. Matt and Susan: They are both young professionals. Matt lacks confidence with women desperately trying to impress. Susan sees the situation for what it is 'a one-night stand'. Peter and Anne: Peter cannot believe his luck, as he lies next to Anne, the problem is he just can't understand that she is engaged to be married. The four strands have been intervowen driving the story forward towards their resolutions and the dawning of a new day.

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America is a young Bolivian girl living in London. It is ten in the morning and a collect call from Bolivia will change the course of her day drastically. Her mother has died. She was killed while protesting against the USA's radical antidrug policy in the country. America promises her sister she will take the first plane to La Paz leaving today to be present at the burial tomorrow.
 
When she hangs up she embarks on a journey full of obstacles that she will have to overcome. She has two problems; the ticket costs £500 but she only has £100, and the plane leaves at 11:30 am. That is in 90 minutes. Her determination to get the money and see her mother for the last time in her life will be stronger than the antagonist elements oppressing her. To board the plane to La Paz will become her American dream. At the end of her journey, America will be determined to follow in her mother’s footsteps and show the USA that their repressive policy against the coca leaf is unjustified, even more so when respect for human rights and social welfare is at stake. Coca is not cocaine.

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Theirs is, at heart, a love story: Andrew and Jeremy met each other at Bromptons Club, a legendary gay bar in Earls Court, London. Despite a considerable age gap (Andy is 49, Jeremy 69) and stark social differences, they fell in love and began sharing their lives together. Five years later, in May 2004, they got married at an emotional and intimate Town Hall ceremony.

Andy is a retired bus driver from South London, handsome in that rough and roguish way. Jeremy is an English professor -  cute, fussy, vivacious and clearly from a patrician world. Both men experienced painful early struggles with their sexuality. Jeremy had a failed marriage to a woman, followed by a misguided attempt to 'cure' himself. Andy cruised public washrooms and indulged with much promiscuity - gay bars, drug addiction, crime, prison and rehabilitation. Jeremy has literary connections and moves in a sphere of chic dinner parties, poetry readings and gay picnics. Between their homes in London and their exploits in Palm Springs and Hollywood, we get to know these likeable, complex and sensitive men in a way that is rare in movies - which is to say we begin to care deeply about them and their relationship.

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A Japanese odyssey communicating the explosion of the senses that intoxicates you on your arrival in Tokyo.
 

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Normandy 1894. A seductive, bright and fiery young man in his early twenties decides to follow his passion for burglary, through adventures that will make his name famous. This young man is Arsene Lupin.

Freely adapted from the novel by Maurice Leblanc, The Countess of Cagliostro, the film describes the formative years of this charming and ambiguous charcter.