Projects in categories: Fiction

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After not seeing each other for some time, three lifelong friends, John, Keith and Darren, gather for a long weekend away in a dilapidated camper van. They've grown apart in recent years. They pack and leave for the nearest coastal resort to Birmingham; Barmouth in Wales. Darren says goodbye to his partner, Mandy.

John advises Keith to lay off Darren and his relationship with Mandy. Keith makes some comments and the relationship of John and ex-girlfriend Liz is revealed. John still seems affected by the mention of her name. Getting ready to go to a club that night, Keith has a slight 'turn' in a toilet cubicle and Darren reveals that he's going to sell the camper van. Keith reacts strongly to this, accusing Darren of being pressured by Mandy. Darren tells them the reason he's selling the van is because Mandy is pregnant. They go to the club to celebrate.

At the club, they see Louise, the local girl. John is bullied into talking to her and leaves with her at the end of the night, arranging to meet the following day. While waiting for John to join them, Keith asks Darren if he still sees anything of John's ex, Liz.

In the morning, Keith is violently sick. John goes to meet Louise and we see Mandy and her sister Kate, in a car getting lost somewhere in Wales. Liz is with them. They arrive at the campsite while John is sitting on the beach talking with Louise. Keith and Liz have a conversation, hinting at some kind of earlier tryst. The plot thickens.

Cincinnati to Cymru tells the story of three friends and their having to come to terms with adult responsibilities.

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Lorna lives with her depressed mother, whom she looks after. She has buried her emotions and is only helped out of her isolated world when Earl, a builder, comes to fix a wall.

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Emma is running away from a relationship that sooner or later she'll be forced to confront. Ed is an isolated teenager, shielding his sense of inadequacy behind a rebellious cocky veneer.

The meeting of the two is like the juxtaposition of two colours, as they diffuse, both are transformed.

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Interactive documentary (online, broadband, with full-screen full-motion video) about coronary heart disease and its treatment within the UK National Health Service.

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Aaron tries to fix everything. Craig is just trying.

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Crust is a very original, very funny British character comedy about three ordinary working class people going for gold with a large boxing crustacean in the back of a transit van. And beneath that, a surprisingly warm hearted tale about one man shedding his macho shell and getting back in touch with his emotions. A high concept howler, but rooted in real people with real feelings.

Told against a backdrop of Asda car parks, motorways, Travelodges, run-down boxing gyms, pub car parks, TV Executive's offices, Soho pubs, chippies, disused warehouses, kebab shops, Ulrika Jonsson's hallway.

The story of Bill and his search for that missing something with his one last stab at 'success'. The story of amateur boxer/crustacean opponent Steve and his inability to satisfy Shaz, who's dating beneath her and wants to get into something media-related. And the story of a crustacean suffering in silence, a shrimp in the wrong place at the wrong time, but not half as stupid as it looks.

So fasten your seatbelts and join three slightly hapless Midlanders with big dreams and an even bigger shellfish, trying to make it against the odds in 'Cool Britannia'.

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Frantic knockabout tragedy as Bobo is sent to clown prison for a daring but silly crime and must escape to try and prevent his family from bringing shame on all clowndom.

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Shot with available light on DVCam, Cup and Lip is the story of a drunk driver Gary who blackmails his yong son, Nikhil, into keeping a deadly secret. A gritty, poignant tale of trust and betrayal.

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A film which considers the corruption of innocents in the face of conflict.

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Tom Nightingale, a famous author of children's books, has been unable to write since the death of his wife over sixteen months ago. Closed off emotionally, the only joy in Tom's life is reading fairy stories to his eight year old daughter, Melissa.

Unbeknownst to Tom, each night while he reads these stories, Crystal, a real fairy, is also listening, enjoying the stories as much as Melissa. One night, during story time, Crystal is thrown from the windowsill. Chased by the family dog, she crashes straight into a tree. Her tiny fairy body morphs into human size. Regaining consciousness, Crystal has no idea who or what she is. When she knocks on Tom's door, she's suffering from amnesia. Fairy amnesia.

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The story of a woman's fight to retain her dignity. When she's tried all she can by gentle means, and things are only getting worse, she starts to fight back with a vengeance.

A macabre story of a victimised woman who kills the men that torment her and buries them one by one, on top of each other, in a shallow grave.

To her surprise however, the dead do not rest easy. The abusive husband she kills returns to torment her as a very real ghost. At the same time, she is being investigated for another murder by a sadistic detective, who is not what he appears to be.

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Dead Drunk is an educational short drama that looks at the culture of drinking from the perspective of a group of teenagers on the cusp of adulthood.