Projects in categories: Fiction

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George is watching the screen entranced. He is 58, single, and a cinema projectionist. He is in love with Stefania, the beautiful Italian actress he sees every night on the silver screen. If only he could escape to her world, where he wasn't tormented by Mr Harris, his lunatic, sausage eating, Scottish boss. Andrei, the Russian cinema cleaner also dreams of a life on the silver screen. If only he could escape from his world of sweeping floors and scrubbing toilets. Enter Antonio, the impossibly neurotic Italian film director, who is determined to make a name for himself with his new epic 'Red Carpet', a combined remake of Cinema Paradiso and Pulp Fiction. He is a man who is destined to change the lives of everyone he meets.

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A critic sabotages a new art movement. The 'New Brutalists' turn him into a piece of saleable art. But even this fails to silence him. A satirical comedy on modern art.

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This programme chronicles the restoration of the Franklin House in London's Craven Street into an educational centre for Britain and Europe. Franklin was an American inventor, philosopher, journalist and political scientist and President of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. He lived in London from 1757 to 1775 and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

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Light romantic tale of six philosophy students: Three girls and three guys who take the day off lectures to enjoy a beautiful summer day in Mile End park. Along the way they learn more about each other than planned and discover that apart from being thinkers; They're Lovers, Fighters and Dreamers.

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Sal and Nick are strangers who have woken up in the same bed. She's desperate for him to stay. He's desperate to leave. But Sal will not let him go home - not today. And she'll do anything, absolutely anything, to make him stay.

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The Big Snow tells the story of one man's struggle for survival in a post apocalyptic winter.

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Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the tale of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy. His one last dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho, found only in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take them on a trip up to the jungle to search for the butterfly, leading to an adventure that will transform their lives.

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When most people retire, they retreat to that idyllic cottage in the country and life starts to take a slower pace - but not for Eva. Her 65th birthday arrives along with her first pension cheque, which proves to be a major wake up call. Dumping Burt her grumpy and ungrateful husband of forty years, she flees the safe cocoon and wealth of suburbia and heads for the uncertainty of the big city, figuring the only things in life you regret are the things you don't do. Life's not easy at first for Eva, but it's a damn sight more exciting when Johnny a passionate Romanian immigrant 20 years her junior re-lights her fire with good cooking, stimulating conversations, and lots of laughs. Her walls crumble, and her senses begin to awaken. A heart-warming voyage of discovery, The Book of Eve explores how modern women at 65 can be sensual, attractive, funny and intelligent and that coming of age isn't restricted to teenagers!

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In The Calcium Kid, a mockumentary comedy, Orlando Bloom plays young milkman Jimmy, an amateur boxer who by a bizarre twist of events ends up fighting the world champion in his home town.

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The Cicerones is a metaphysical ghost train ride into mystery and terror about a man who enjoys nothing more than visiting places of cultural interest. In an unnamed corner of Eastern Europe he has an encounter that is eerier and more disturbing than anything he might have imagined.

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The cobbler is that rare combination: both individual and architype, both a face and a body. To his customers whose shoes are coming to pieces, he's the man who can fix anything. His shop, located in the middle of Gatesheads Jewish Community, is a mirror that reþects back to the viewer a picture of some of the salient social and psychological processes that underlie our culture.

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Technology is advancing much faster, that culture ability to make sense of it and in a world where communications devices are getting more complex; a man gets trapped in this complexity of communication; he tries to overcome this confusion through the advice that his mother told him the day before he went to Longdome.