Projects in categories: Fiction

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A young photographer drops out of society to photograph nature and discovers his place in the world; until the day he sees a beautiful girl and has to question everything.

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One day, at the end of her tether, a mother invites two neighbourhood girls over to befriend her lonely 11 year old son. Even she is surprised at the result - This is a warm, touching, funny evocation of childhood.

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A woman is shot and left bleeding to death in her home. Her only chance of survival is for the police to allow the paramedics into what is potentially a volatile situation. Loraine must convince a call centre operator it is safe to enter or she will almost certainly die.

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A young mischievious lad named Wayne wants to impress one of the local girls by stealing his father's prized Everton 1933 football used by the legendary Dixie Dean himself. He thinks he'll show her the ball. But two scally lads take the ball and the chase is on. Wayne spends the rest of the day, to comic effect, trying to get the ball (which is now stuck in the lake) back. His friends fail miserably to help him but one person saves the day.

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Heck (Matthew Goode) and Rachel (Piper Perabo) are a happy young couple about to embark on life together. But at the church, Rachel catches the eye of an unexpected guest. In that moment, she realises that maybe Heck isn’t everything she’s ever wanted. Of course, they will never know for sure unless they give it a shot. What follows is the romantic and hilarious journey familiar to anyone who’s ever been lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love’s spell.

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Paul X has killed a man -  or he thinks he has - who has made his life a misery. Unable to live with the guilt he tries to jump into a river to end his life.
 
In the river, deep underwater, he will live for sixty minutes 'in and out of planet earth' facing his victim and delving into the best methods to kill someone.

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A telling, lyrical, comical, rites-of-passage tale. At 13 Sam, Daryl and Carl think the best way to get gal and bare money is to cook good. If their Mums’ can do it, they can do it. But it’s when you think you can do something easily, that life gives you a size nine kick up the bum.

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Set within a Victoria Asylum, an eldery surgeon recognises himself within the patient he is operating on.

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21,800 vicitims told their stories to the truth and reconciliation commission. 1,163 perpetrators were given amnesty, beginning the process of healing the wounds of apartheid.

Set against the backdrop of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, Washington Post journalist Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) meets Anna Malan (Juliette Binoche) an Afrikaans poet covering the hearings for South African state media.
His horror at the revelations at the truth commission leads to instant animosity between Langston and Anna, but as he becomes increasingly drawn into her world and her passion for the country of her birth, he softens his stance and, against his will and principles, falls in love with the white African.

This is a re-cut version of Country Of My Skull.

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Paul (Matthew Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown on the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Emily Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence.

But many, including the members of both their families, frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life. 

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A lonely old man's home is invaded by a teenage girl in trouble. At first he is reluctant to help her, but soon realises that protecting her gives him a reason to still be alive. Unfortunately her troubles catch up with her and a difficult choice has to be made.

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Thirty years in the future, mankind has been forced underground by a deadly virus. The surface is thought to be a lifeless wasteland. Loki and Sash, two members of the 'Subtropolis' special forces, are thrust into a deadly adventure when they accept a new mission:

Return topside, rescue a lost recon team and come back alive.
One problem: they've been lied to. Cut off from civilisation and slowly being infected by the deadly disease, their ordeal is just beginning. Before long the inhabitants of this apocalyptic world show up and are hungry. For them.

A thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror that will infect you with fear.