Projects in categories: Fiction

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It is the last episode of TV game show Telephone Detectives. When murder becomes entertainment the drive for high ratings tips a small cable show into the world of the psychopath. A viewer's video sets the spectre of death loose in the studio. Are they still playing the game or are they in the hands of a killer? In a gameshow of murder you collect the clues to win the prize of a lifetime. In the final episode the crew must collect the clues to win the prize of life.

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A modern day mermaid begs the moon to let her find true love on land. If she fails, she must return to the sea forever. She comes to London where she realises her dreams in the arms of a cockney bellboy. But is their faith strong enough to break the enchantment of the sea?

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Two struggling, rather mediocre actors prove the little-known adage that bad actors make great crooks.

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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.