Projects in categories: Fiction

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An unscrupulous insurance agent is avenged after he does not pay out on the death of an elderly widows husband.

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A fireman turned film-maker makes three features in five years, premieres twice at Cannes. This feature documentary give the inside story to the problems he faced and his desire to achieve critical and commercial success.

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Abdul is desperate for the perfect family portrait. All he wants is to capture one moment in time when his family appear happy with his new wife, Michelle; even if it is just a 35th of a second.

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An Englishwoman wakes up in the middle of the night in a small hotel in a poverty-stricken foreign city where a civil war is being fought. She has a fever, and tries to remember why she has returned to this frightening country. During the night, she starts to retrace her happy childhood and her relatively happy adult existence as a kind, hard-working professional woman who loved her family and friends, appreciated music and the arts. But she is also retracing the unusual events that have led her to this place, and how the people she has met on that journey began to change her understanding of the world. Now, in this lonely hotel room she is struggling with a new and unpleasant perception of herself and her life. As the dawn breaks, her fever subsides and with it comes an honest appraisal of herself. With gut-wrenching clarity she has come to understand her responsibility for the violence of poverty and exploitation she sees in the world.

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Carp take a leap of faith. Can we be more than we are? We are compelled to try.  

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Love. Loneliness. London. Sacha is the favourite young gigolo of the over-50s of Mayfair and Piccadilly. His clients are wealthy, successful - and pay for sex. Behind the closed doors of late-night London, he works to give pleasure to lonely women. His clients savour one night of male attention; Sacha finds comfort in the darkness. At dawn, Trevor (the valet) starts work. He collects the dry cleaning, sources clients, books hotel rooms. He takes pride in a job well done. Across town, Sacha leaves a hotel room, his client sleeping and satisfied. He drives home to Trevor in the early morning light, loneliness creeping over him like a fever. With Anna Massey, Sian Phillips and Susannah York playing the clients, The Gigolos provokes, stimulates and arouses. With absolute discretion guaranteed.  

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In 1938 two producers hire hell-raising Hollywood star Leslie Grangely (Ewan McGregor) to play Bonnie Prince Charlie (also McGregor) in a movie about the 18th-century Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland. Soon after, a drunk Grangely disappears and the producers are forced to find a replacment. They trick a gullible, goofy extra with an uncanny resemblance for Grangely into playing the role of Bonnie Prince Charlie, 'The Great Pretender'. A hilarious comedy and a paradox of epic proportions, The Great Pretender reconfirms Ewan McGregor's deft comic genius as he stars, doubles and extras in this riotous role-switching farce of a movie within a movie.

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'I know when the Grotlyn's been, Slipping through your house unseen... But what at first we think to be, The eye does blindly make us see!' This animated verse delves into the begrimed corners of a Victorian city and discovers the infamy of its protagonist to be anything but malicious.

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Bad Hair Day? You Don't Know The Half Of It! Have you ever wondered how it is that even the finest haircut can go from Barbie to bird's nest in the space of a few days? Martin Cosgrave has. He's an investigative journalist who thinks he's exposed a conspiracy used by the hairdressing trade to exploit unsuspecting customers for centuries. Gaining the trust of industry insiders, he discovers their trade secret: a haircut which looks fantastic for a few days, then quickly deteriorates, forcing the customer to return for further grooming. But while he is looking into this, Martin makes an even more astounding discovery. There is a second secret haircut, The Haircutter's Cut, which those in the know can obtain by making a secret sign. Martin makes it his mission to track down The Haircutter's Cut, and a hair-raising undercover investigation ensues.

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A plucky recruit is beckoned to town by the promise of opportunity, but he first must acquire the proper attire. His endeavours are met with a curious blend of diversion and trickery.  

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Based on Alan Bennett's hit National Theatre comedy-drama. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in 1980s Yorkshire are in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at Oxford or Cambridge. A maverick English teacher, a facts-orientated history teacher and a young and shrewd supply teacher are trying to help them, albeit with completely different teaching methods. The school is run by a slightly crazed headmaster obsessed with results and getting his school up the league tables. Given all this, can the boys achieve their Oxbridge goal and what can they learn about life, love, history, and film-endings along the way?

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Set in the mid-1970s The Illiterate is the story of Fidel, a young boy growing up in a hippy commune who suffers from acute dyslexia. Alienated from school and his abusive teachers Fidel retreats into his own dark and violent fantasy world. Only when a woman living in the commune takes on the job of teaching him to read does Fidel's life begin to change and a whole new world of possibilities begin to open up.