Projects in categories: Fiction

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An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet set in modern urban London, Cultural Menace is a thought-provoking tale of the fears embedded in a society built on money and expectation.
 
On the Sumka Estate we find the Morte gang whose hold on the local drugs trade has been challenged by an informant, leading to the police seizing £27,000 worth of drugs. Gang leader and big-time drugs lord Benny is angered by this distraction and takes his revenge. 
 
Meanwhile on the estate, Cemal tries to instil his cultural values on his family, but he is living in a world that places too much pressure on his beliefs.
 
Caught up in this turmoil of hate, revenge and cultural conflict we meet two star-crossed lovers, Cemal's daughter Jeylan and Benny's brother Ronnie. The end seems sealed from the moment they meet in a world where hate prevails and love should stay.

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A dark fairytale about three girls, a 7" single and a dance competition.

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Location: present-day London through the eyes of a humble key cutter, Abe (Andrew Lee Potts).

Date: not his best day

None of these were on his wish list:

1. Mimi (Elena Anaya), his Spanish girlfriend, announces she is pregnant and storms off to Madrid.
2. Debt collector Danny Devine (Robert Carlyle) gives Abe 24 hours to pay of his debts 'or else'.
3. Switching cell phones with Lynch (Gary Oldman), a neurotic hit man.
4. Being wanted dead by at least 2 assassins.
5. Getting a contract to kill a Dead Fish.

Abe has to get through the day, without being killed or killing anyone, earning enough dough to pay back Devine and most importantly making sure he doesn't lose the girl he loves.

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An English boy struggles for belonging in a Scottish new town during the Falklands conflict.

He plays the classic Scottish game of Dead Man Falls and finds life again.

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Deadeye is a dark and disturbing thriller in the vein of The Last Broadcast.

Documentary filmmaker Rodger Pelem unravels the mystery surrounding Private Lives, a hidden- camera TV show. Created by Robert Van Korda, the show was to be groundbreaking for the time. Hidden cameras would record one couple 24/7 but four weeks into production the show was shut down. All record of its production disappeared and no-one knew of its existence. Until now. Through a mixture of interviews and rare archival footage, Pelem presents a violent and visceral account of what took place and the cover-up that was to follow. This is the true story of Private Lives.

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What goes around comes around.
 

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A young girls' body is left in a secluded area of woodland after her murder. Her ghost appears to a friend, Alex, in the night, and after her pleas for help, he sets out to find her body in order to finally let her soul rest.

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Hackney, East London, 2004. A Spanish butcher with a dream: To become a bullfighter. A dream that becomes an obsession. An obsession that overtakes his life. A dream come true.

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Eden in Northern Ireland shares few of the qualities of it's namesake. It exists around the perimeter fence of one of Ireland's largest power stations. Simon Aeppli's hometown forms the basis of a video that explores a rundown half forgotten place. Focusing on Eden's residents the video reveals a place filled with eccentricity, humour and beauty.

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When a menopausal Miss Jamaica is shat on by an elephant, she decides to ask her cheating husband for a divorce.
 

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Erskine and McCullough’s debut feature is a deft thriller that cleverly weaves together a host of urban myths – from kidney-stealing and alien abduction, to manipulative drug corporations; this is a paranoiac’s wonderland. Reminiscent of Jacob’s Ladder and with shades of Donnie Darko, the plot winds its way, Rubik’s cube-like, to a satisfyingly twisted climax. At times sinister, surprising and striking, and with an endearingly hapless hero, EMR is a refreshingly British take on the thriller that will make you think twice the next time you knock back a couple of aspirin.

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On 21st May 2003, British artist Mark Anstee started work at the In Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium. His task was to draw two opposing armies of equal number on a four metre square wall - in twelve days. The life and times of 19,386 small biro men.