Projects in categories: Fiction

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A disturbing study of male identity. Steve's just been made redundant and waits at home for his late-working partner to return. As the drinks mount up, he starts to unravel, moving freely between past, present and fantasy, as the old demons come out to play.

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A Small World is a dark, shocking tale. We meet John on a deserted beach as he strips off his clothes in readiness for a swim, but we soon realise he is stripping off much more than that - he is literally stripping off his horrifying past.

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A Social Call. A drive to the country. A brief bit of business. But it's so easy to forget something, and so difficult to leave - 3 characters, 2 cars, 6 minutes: a wordless black comedy.

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A-ZU-RE is an adolescent streetchild with dark skin and blue eyes, who sleeps on the beach with his younger friend Vincent - and ekes out a precarious living by day. Azure gets involved with a local gangster, Gerald, who renames him Blue, and sends him out to sell drugs on the streets. The drugs soon get stolen and the boys incur Gerald's wrath. Gerald captures Vincent and it is up to Azure to rescue him.

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A man's desire to overcome his personal demons for his wife's sake and his own leads him to a psychologist whose unconventional suggestive therapy penetrates his dreams and unleashes something no one expected, begging the question: are the sins of the father visited upon the son?

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Sometimes a good deed is more trouble than it's worth - as Joseph finds out when he tries to return a lost wallet to its owner.

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One man and his amusing disease: Ian Spatchcock is a prisoner in his own home, unable to go out or even to the bathroom due to his magnetic attraction to something quite horrible! Here he explains how he manages to cope with the changes brought about by his affliction and life without his Mondeo.

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Audaciously split into three simultaneous frames AKA tells the story of a disaffected youth, identity lost and found, and the search for love.

Dean, the handsome hero, is trapped in a dead world: a working class suburb with a sexually abusive father and a waitress mother who is convinced that she is the friend of aristocrats she serves.

Dean runs away from home seeking out Lady Gryffoyn, one of the many characters that his mother has told him about at the restaurant. After meeting Lady Gryffoyn, Dean moves into her home but after a short time falls out with her jealous son Alex Gryffoyn.

A chance meeting with Benjamin, a charismatic American leads Dean to Paris where he looks for work. Unable to get work Dean pretends to be Alex Gryffoyn and with Benjamin's unwitting help, infiltrates the very upper class set his mother waits on, convincing them and himself that he belongs.

All the time he is funding this deceit with his credit card, running up huge bills. Back in England the police are alerted to his fraudulent use of the credit card.

Dean hooks up with David Glendenning the rich aristocratic man for whom Benjamin is a courtesan. David takes Dean under his wing but only after expelling Dean's one true friend Benjamin from their inner circle.

Reinventing oneself comes at a price. Slowly, the living hell, which he endured at home, comes back to haunt Dean. Dean finally tells the truth to Benjamin who is furious with Dean and tells David Glendenning. The charade is over.

Dean goes back home, confronts his father and the tragic family secret is blown apart.

The film ends with Dean in prison but in possession of his own identity and on his own terms.

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Two American Mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow café owned by their Scots/Italian cousin. But cousin Roberto isn't the tough guy they'd expected. His strengths are fish frying and stamp collecting, and he thinks Magnum 45s are a type of ice cream.

Gino and Settimo try to repay Roberto's hospitality by chasing off a debt collector who wants his property, but their strong-arm tactics alarm him, and he realises they aren't the PR consultants they claimed to be.

Adding to the tension is a growing rivalry between Roberto and Gino over Alice, a girl Roberto has secretly loved for years. Matters come to a head when Roberto finds a suitcase full of plants, which he assumes to be drugs. He's disgusted with his cousins, until Settimo reveals that the cuttings are from a new species of vine, which can grow anywhere and is set to revolutionise the wine industry.

Meanwhile, Roberto has finally worked up the courage to tell Alice how he feels. But before he can act his world starts to fall apart. Firstly he finds her in a passionate embrace with Gino, then his beloved Grandfather dies, and finally the Ukrainian gangsters track down the Americans and lay siege to the shop. The situation seems hopeless until Roberto comes up with a place of safety then sets fire to the shop. Within minutes the emergency services have arrived and the Ukrainians have made a hasty retreat.

The next day, as smoke rises from the ruins of his precious café, Roberto tells Alice he loves her. She says she loves him too, and that the kiss with Gino had been a drunken mistake. But their happiness is short lived. The debt-collector who the Americans have chased off returns mob-handed, and he's out for revenge.

Roberto stands up to him and is bundled into a car, but just at that moment a fleet of taxis pulls up. They contain the cream of Gino and Settimo's New Jersey family, who have decamped to Scotland to avoid being wiped out in a gangland war. The sight of 30 steely-eyed Mafiosi soon convinces the debt collector to make himself scarce.

Five years later the ruins of Roberto's café have been transformed into a magnificent new restaurant. Next door the Americans have built an impressive warehouse from which they run the Caledonian Chianti Company. And the wasteland in front of the shop has become a beautiful vineyard, with rows of plants as far as the eye can see.

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One too many dodgy deals puts a car salesman into an early grave. What a group of four indie musicians (now disbanded and unemployed) don't realise, when they accidently kill him, and bury him in the woods, is that he had a lot of money on him. Being drunk didn't help either, because when Rick, the leader of the group, learns of the money, retracing his footsteps in the woods and finding the body proves not only difficult, but insane.

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Animal rights activist Jade is anxious to get Nick Robinson, the marketing director of a pharmaceutical company, to justify their experimentation on animals so she can post the results on her fledgling website www.justice4animals.tv but all attempts at a serious debate are met with contempt! When hard-line activist Charlie convinces Jade he can get the one-on-one she wants, she agrees, unaware of what this will involve. Kidnap. Imprisonment. Torture.

Locked in a cage, barely able to move, Nick is finally at Jade's mercy as she videos and uploads his arrogant dismissal of her questioning. Realising that Charlie has no intention of changing Nick's view of life but to simply end it, Jade breaks anonymity to warn the police, putting her own life at risk to save another.

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Arthur is besotted with Beryl. However Cupid's arrow is way off, Beryl thinks Arthur is an idiot. Arthur tries to impress Beryl making inventions, all of which Beryl hates. Disastrous attempt follows disastrous attempt, until finally he might have got it right. It all ends in a truly apocalyptic finale.