Projects in categories: Fiction

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This independent production is about a young man so obsessed with Apple Mac he becomes a Malcolm X-like revolutionary, fighting computer bigotry - by any means necessary.

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The Salford-based story of Bernard, a loner. Since the loss of his wife, Bernard becomes trapped in the past and unable to break out of a funereal ritual that comes to define him.

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This compelling film follows refugees Jamal and Enayatullah as they travel overland to London, passing through Iran, Turkey, Italy and France. Their fictitious journey is a distillation of the experiences of a multitude of real life asylum seekers and migrants - courageous and resourceful people seeking a better life but whose stories so often end in tragedy.

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Blinded in 1976, Martin Shail now works as a lift operator. This film intimately portrays Martin's experiences since becoming blind and captures his encounters with the various people he meets in his lift.

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A couple break up briefly (the intermission of the title), sending ripples through the lives of everyone around them. Ripples that become shockwaves as a film-maker teams up with a cop for a journey into violence: a jilted wife plots revenge on her husband; three men team up for a daring kidnap-robbery. These and other stories collide, dovetail and climax in extreme ways, pushing the couple toward a reunion which in turn restores a kind of order.

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After ecstatically agreeing to marry Henry, Rose spends the rest of the day charging around town telling all her other boyfriends their relationship is over. Each boyfriend reacts differently and some take her attempts to split badly. Every time this happens she learns another unpalatable truth about herself.

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'Me? Take it easy now, calm down. It couldn't be me, it couldn't be me! I mean if you don't know yourself who do you know? But the blood - It seemed crazy but how else could I be sure? So I set the camera up, tied myself to the bed and lay there, waiting - Guess I must have nodded off somehow, 'cos the next thing I know it's morning and I'm there just where I left myself. No problem, I'm telling myself, no problem - Then I played the tape. I just couldn't take it in. Me, a fuzzy black and white image in pyjamas, getting out of bed, leaving the room.' Leonard Grey, superintendent of Jericho Mansions. His world may be small but he cares for every inch of it. The fading wallpaper in the entrance hall, the ageing carpet on the stairs, the clank of the elevator and above all, the faint but continuous refrain of lives being lived around him - For the last thirty years the building has been his universe. Beyond the front door of the apartment block lies a terrifying agoraphobic nightmare into which, for as long as he can remember, he has never dared to venture. But Leonard's sanctuary is beginning to crumble; forces are conspiring to kick him out. Constant accusations by Lily Melnik, the landlady, of stealing worthless items from her apartment, stirrings of discontent among the residents, infidelities and finally a murder. Bill Cherry, one of the building's inhabitants is found dead, his body thrown down the garbage chute. Though the cops believe they have their killer and motive - a jealous tenant taking revenge on his wife's lover - Leonard begins to discover clues that point to a different kind of killer. Himself.

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Johnny English stars Rowan Atkinson as an accident-prone MI7 agent on a mission to rescue Britain's crown jewels and save the country and the monarchy from a machiavellian French business magnate.

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Mohamed Ali is a young African refugee who arrives as a stowaway in a rundown Welsh town. It's Christmas. He is starving, lost. Finally he seeks shelter in a pub. He is thrown out by the landlord but unexpectedly touches the heart of Connie, the landlord's wife. Our short film is an unusual and heartwarming fairytale that reaches beyond its topical subject matter. Whilst entirely fictional, the story is inspired by the real story of a recent asylum seeker to Britain.

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Jump is a comedy set upon the city rooftops which plays with the theme of life and the after life. As Gavin teeters on the edge, the idealised moment is interrupted by the appearance of an old man and several others. Mysterious characters, they all toy with Gavin, and worst of all, remain completely disinterested in Gavin's plight.

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Alan, a young man who desperately wants to get married. Today is his birthday and he wants to give Mila, the girl of his choice, the ring tonight. But his past womanising ways, and his friends, catch up with him and things do not go according to plan. Maybe for good maybe for bad, but he finally has to be honest with himself and accept what he is.

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This is a love story, not Helen and Joe, but the whole family. Helen (late 30s) is wife, mother and daughter and, on the morning we meet her, is killed in a road accident. But Helen doesn't know she is dead, and neither does her husband, Joe, who is a truck driver travelling home to London from war-torn Eastern Europe. The film charts the four-day odyssey of the family until Joe's return: the children and Grandpa at home struggling with what has happened, Joe over scary and unpredictable terrain and Helen through limbo to the moment when she and Joe finally reconcile their love and she is free to leave in peace. In the tragedy comes the seed of hope for the future.