Projects in categories: Fiction

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Match Point is a drama about a young man's rise in society and the terrible consequences of his ambition. The protagonist is torn between two women, and finding no way out, resorts to extreme action.

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Anita Singh, a young Asian Londoner, meets an enigmatic stranger at the supermarket who convinces her that he is schooled in the ways of Eastern mysticism. She is amazed when he demonstrates that he can levitate. But is this urban swami really the answer to Anita's prayers?

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Ben, a sensitve and small 11-year-old, faces bullying at school and neglect at home. His mother can barely cope with her own problems and is completely insensitive to those of her son. Ben becomes deeply traumatised when an associate of his mother's locks him in an isolated warehouse overnight in an attempt to force her to work. Driven beyond endurance by the harsh adult world he lives in, the child finds a chilling resolution to his problems.

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An enormous stone rests impossibly in a studio while a sculptor struggles to extract a figure from it. Soon the artist realises that he is not alone and he is drawn into the shadows where he discovers a parallel studio to his own. There he is faced with his own future creation as his memories, fears, illusions and betrayals become real. During the course of events he turns into a spectator of his own creative process, to discover that he has been assimilated by his work. The line between creator and created vanishes.

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MirrorMask is the story of Helena, who juggles and sells popcorn at her family’s circus. After quarrelling with her parents over her longing to run away and join real life, her mother falls ill, and Helena is convinced it’s all her fault. One night, without warning, she finds herself drawn into a fantastical world far beyond wonder; a world where all the windows reveal her own room now occupied by an angry, badly behaved version of herself.

Things in Helena’s new world are not going well at all. The White Queen has fallen into an unbreakable slumber, and the Black Queen’s shadows are spreading over the land, destroying the balance between light and dark.  And so Helena embarks on a desperate quest to win back her real life while rescuing a realm from the devouring forces of chaos.

For all who believe in the glorious reality of dreams, for everyone who longs to ride their imagination to miraculous places, the window is now wide open.  Experience the world anew through MirrorMask.

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A personal document of the director's ancestral pilgrimage. She went to Poland in search of her missing uncle, Meilich Last. The film attempts to retrace the remnants of the spiritual and ghostly presence of the vanished world of her cultural origins. 

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Moments is a three minute odyssey exploring a few meaningful seconds within a life. Based in the 1960s, we explore one mans thoughts as he patiently sits in a hospital waiting area. Featuring Lee Ingleby, it hides a moving message about the things we never said.

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An experimental film about human evolution. Combining Darwinism, prehistoric art and science fiction, it portrays evolution as a dance of geometric forms leading from ape to man, and beyond, to an apocalyptic Super-Man. With dark humanity and driving energy, Monkey Project creates a singular blend of past and future.

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A short film about a young, shy boy named Will, who is on work experience at an Employment Centre. Will has a unique and special gift giving him a deeper insight and understanding into the lives of people he encounters during his day. These visions contrast sharply with the preconceptions of his colleague, Prakash, who is showing Will 'the ropes'. However, when a man wearing a jinxed watch visits the centre Will is forced to act on his supernatural instincts.

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A Faustian puppeteer tells the story of Mary, a girl who sells her soul for five years worth of happiness. She takes refuge in a convent, unaware that her soul holds the key to the survival or destruction of the deadlights realm, a world that exists between this and the next.

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The Devil is sick of the bad press he receives. In today’s media-savvy society, image is everything. What Lucifer needs is a re-branding. And what better way to do it than to enlist the help of a high flying PR executive. There’s only one problem. He’s not dead - yet.

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Life repeats itself over and over for Mr Theobald, just another cog in society's machine, until something changes his way of thinking in a darkly humorous modern fairy tale mixing live action and animation.