Projects in categories: Fiction

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In a distant land the law dictates that the Emperor must take a new wife if his current Empress does not bear a son within seven years of marriage. On the night of their sixth wedding anniversary, the Emperor summons the Chamberlain, his loyal servant and confidant. The two men begin the covert operation to find and prepare a virgin candidate who might become the new Emperor's Wife.
 
A beautiful virgin who is sold by her mother, Sabah, is secretly transported by the Chamberlain into an isolated wing of the Imperial Palace. In this prison of fairytale rooms furnished with Imperial gifts, Sabah is tutored by the Imperial Masters. The Emperor and Chamberlain secretly keep an eye on Sabah's progress, but Sabah's violent protests nearly sabotage the entire operation. The Chamberlain, falling in love with Sabah, enters the secret wing to win her affection. Quite a sacrifice: in order to safeguard Sabah's virginity, any man entering the secret wing must become a eunuch. Also, the law claims that if the current Empress conceives a child within the next year, everyone in this secret wing must be executed.
 
The Empress discovers this conspiracy against her and the only way to save her life is playing the Emperor and the Chamberlain off against each other.

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You have 90 seconds to live - all of you.
 

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When Glasgow City Parts employee, Shug McCracken, gets caught stealing money from the takings for the public tennis courts he blames mice for his crime.

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Based on the acclaimed novel by John King, The Football Factory is about a forgotten culture of males fed up with being told they're no good and using violence as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. 

Adapted and directed by Nick Love, The Football Factory is seen through the eyes of four men, all of who have a different story to tell about their experience with tribal culture on the terraces of the beautiful game. 
Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer); a bright thirty year old with a steady job and close family leads us through the story and is the link to the other three characters. 

Billy Bright (Frank Harper); a right wing fascist who forms part of the older generation of the Chelsea Headhunters but is full of bitterness in what he sees as a country that has failed him. 

Zeberdee (Roland Manookian) a mouthy hooligan whose life has already run into the cul de sac of crime and drugs. 

And Bill Farrell; a seventy year old war veteran who tries to enjoy every day to the limit. 

The Football Factory is frighteningly real yet full of painful humour as the four character's extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.
 

 

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The Girl and the Horse is a simple yet stunning tale of a small girl's search for contentment and the love she feels for her horse.
 
As the story unfolds she realises that the material things in life such as cakes, coins and pretty dresses will not necessarily make her feel literally whole and happy. The only thing that can fill the literally empty void of her unhapiness is her wonderful friendship with her horse.

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Leonard and Harry mourn the loss of Kristen - a young ballet dancer. Len refuses to express or acknowledge his grief. Under pressure, he reveals his misery was born during World War II. Is the death of Kristen his penance? Harry must find the key to Len's escape and his future.

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Alec, an unemployed professional, helps his wife Kathy run a Bed and Breakfast. A new guest -Mr. Kirkwood, a charming businessman, arrives and unleashes deep feelings of jealousy and paranoia from some dark corner of Alec's mind.

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A hair-raising Fairytale born of childhood myths and stories that lurk in the shadows. 'No one knows why it needs so much, but it does, so give it what you can - Before it takes it all.'

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Combining animation and live action, The House tells a story of a group of women with mental health problems. Through their own drawings it highlights aspects of their everyday lives, their dreams and aspirations, who they are and what they have been.

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A pacy adaptation of the best-selling novel by John Braine, who made his name with the classic Room At The Top. The book changed the course of British literature and was made into a highly-successful film that did much the same for the British film industry.
 
An industrial town in Yorkshire during the mid-1960s.
 
Vincent Dungarven's mother wants him to be a Roman Catholic priest and he half thinks that he has the vocation. He is a reserved young man, a schoolmaster, and at thirty has never been in love with a woman. When he does fall in love, he falls passionately for Laura, who is not only erotically attractive but intelligent, open, and warm - everything he has longed for but never found.

Vincent's brother Matthew has a drink problem and his wife Maureen is frustrated and unhappy. When Vincent brings Matthew home drunk one night after they have been out to the pub, he resists Maureen's sexual provocation.
 
As the twists of fate intensify and his dilemma grows, Vincent finds living with his mother intolerable. When it is too late ever to recover his old detachment, he discovers that unless he is prepared to break away from his church, he cannot cross the emotional barrier that stands between Laura and himself. As the film reaches an emotionally-charged climax, he finds his world has been shaken to its foundation in the pursuit of passionate love and another man's life destroyed so that he can get it.
 
Second feature from North Country Pictures, a Yorkshire/ Lancashire based production company committed to resurrecting classical methods of storytelling and bringing to an international audience top quality stories that reflect the history, culture, and literature of the Pennine region past, present, and even future.

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The clock is ticking towards The Last Minute, but no one knows it. No one except Billy Byrne (Max Beesley) - young, cool and talented, he's the Next Big Thing. At least that's what the London glitterazzi are saying, on the streets, in the clubs, in the Business. But the glitterazzi turn out to be wrong and Billy Byrne is all over in a split second. His world detonates. His self-esteem splinters.  Suddenly he's on a rollercoaster ride into the London underworld - a dangerous land of murderers, thieves and talent agents.

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Kathleen, 37, is a pretty woman struggling with her own hurt and rebellion, and trying to heal her wounds after the ultimely death of an alcoholic husband, Jeremy. Their years together were bitter sweet, tainted with violence, pain, and betrayed love. She feels that she will never be able to forgive. She harbours more hatred than affection for Jeremy.
 
As for love, Kathleen refuses to entertain the idea that the sun will ever shine for her again. Her devotion to her children amply suffices to fill her world of love. But strange, disturbing occurrences disrupt her safe haven. Telephone calls with no caller come every night just after midnight. Objects and photos oddly disappear. The figure 8 manifests itself repeatedly.
 
Kathleen pushes aside the anguish that these coincidences provoke and concentrates on her material existence.