Projects in categories: Fiction

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Stephanie is a talented young singer frustrated by the lack of success she is experiencing with her Lo-Fi band and the mundane nature of everyday life. However, after a chance meeting with a publicist, Stephanie is given the opportunity to reinvent herself as a conventional solo pop star.

Initially Stephanie resists,however, when two members of her own band leave in order to join another, more successful group, Stephanie agrees to undergo the gruelling physical and musical transformation that her new record company believe will result in pop success.

Having allowed herself to be recreated in the image her record company believes will make her both physically and commercially attractive, Stephanie finds she is rapidly rewarded with a level of success she had once thought impossible. However, in doing so Stephanie is also forced to give up her free will, having effectively handed control of her life over to the record company who dictate every aspect of her world, from where she lives to whom she is seen out with. Confronted by her complete lack of control over the life she thought she wanted, Stephanie is forced to try and reconcile her new found success with her true persona.

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This comic drama is about three different people on a survival weekend, where the only food is our Hero - a streetwise chicken called Lunch, who is determined not to become anybody's last supper! The film is told from the chicken's point of view and was shot in the Western genre.

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One year ago, Bob Sutton and George Lloyd entered the walls of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea - a grand palatial refuge for old British soldiers. Having lost their wives and sold most of their possessions, they have been forced to adapt to an environment both surreal and depressing.
 

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A humorous and moving documentary about the meaning of life for five disparate members of a unique men's group on a housing estate in SW Burnley, Lancashire. Through the men's life experiences emerges a portrait of a working class town with very little work. Compassionate and thought provoking.

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Liquid Love explores the nature of love and relationships between a man and a woman. Set in a bedroom, we watch a couple in their most intimate moments. Like voyeurs we peer in, unable to turn away.

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A metaphysical puzzle wrapped in a conundrum that focuses on the duality of an individual on the verge of a break-up with his girlfriend.

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Alma, anorexic, enters a hospital for treatment, and finds herself caught in the competitive games of the other patients. Their grip on her is loosened by her curiosity about the gardening handyman whom she watches through the windows. When the leader of the group bolts to kill herself, Alma hesitates.

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An offbeat comedy set in the badlands of an East London park. Our distraught hero meets his fairy godmother who enlists the help of a magnificent seven to reunite him with his lost love, culminating in a trade-off with all the intensity of a spaghetti western show-down.

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Scotland, present day. In love with two women, drug dependent Jonnie Condor escapes the city life with voluptuous Jackie Fox. They drive into the wilds of snowy Scotland and search for happiness in time-warped Happy Valley. Jonnie tries to convince Jackie to love him, but she is not interested in his changing moods and silent pauses, and deserts him for someone her own age.

Jonnie's search for an inner paradise is put on hold as he struggles to find new direction in the wild landscape. Frustrated and defeated, he meets refined Katrina Quiver who immediately leads him on a new journey of self-understanding. Camped in the high mountains she eases his over-burdened mind and begins to make him understand that his delusions are destroying him. She begins to teach him that he must live for the moment, but he pines to return to Happy Valley and his lost past.

They return to Happy Valley, but it is a mistake, and they drift back to the fringes of civilisation where they fall out. In a moment of clarity, Jonnie gives up his drug addiction and vows to accept Katrina's leadership.

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For 100 years the movie business has been driven by entrepreneurs ploughing all their passion and energy into bringing entertainment to the masses. This film is about one such individual, an independent filmmaker with a burning ambition to make movies. However, right now, he's due to shoot a pop promo for an unsigned pop group. But things take a downturn when he is late for a meeting with a top Hollywood movie executive and then later his agent fires him.

Undeterred, he decides to use the band's money to finish his own film, a film he's been working on unsuccessfully for over five years. He contacts his original cast and discovers they are no longer available, such as the lead actress heavily pregnant and the lead actor refusing to continue after so long a delay. But this is the 21st Century and anything is possible so we take to the road and follow his attempts to complete his seminal movie project. However, it's not as easy as it seems. These days' people want dough for the show. They want to know what they're doing and where they're doing it. They want to see a script, they want food, and most of all they want paying. But this is lo-no budget. There's no script, no food and no money. There's only love. And sometimes love is not enough.

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Madonna stars as rich, spoilt Amber who embarks with a group of friends on a Mediterranean cruise. Bored by the vacation, she develops an antagonism towards a young Italian fisherman. During a boat trip the pair are castaway on a deserted island where their volatile relationship turns to passion.

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A contemporary music-driven drama, tinged with magic and special effects, that takes you on a journey from innocence to adolescence. When Bebette's artistic and unconventional behaviour is interpreted as disruptive and anti-social, she is projected from the beauty and security of her dream world into a bleak and sometimes frightening reality. In an effort to escape the torment in her mind, she runs!

This is the first film written and directed by Janis Sharp and is full of optimism and charm, with an original soundtrack filled with mood and melody.