Projects in categories: Fiction

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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past when he falls for Paula who is grieving over the death of her brother. One thing stands in the way of their happiness and his salvation; the discovery that the man Paula loves is her brother's killer. The Poet shows us that we can't choose love; it chooses us.

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The Prodigal, the man in the middle, as gangland warfare erupts on the streets of Birmingham!!! For years Ronne McGann has controlled the Birmingham underworld. Now one of his ex-employees, Micky Harrington, is treading on his patch. Vic Stevens, having just served a prison sentence, yearns to start afresh. Having a one-night stand, though, with a mysterious woman turns out to be more than he bargained for and soon Vic becomes the 'pawn' as gangland warfare threatens to erupt. Will Vic survive and will he choose the right side?

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The ten minute colour short film is a surreal document of women's experiences when facing mother-hood and family life in a tailor made male orientated society. Using the Spanish Holy Week Processions as a scenario, the film recreates a very special parade where a woman goes (carried on an Easter throne) through seven of the most significant moments of her life.

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The sudden death of Laura leaves her boyfriend, Hash, torn between feelings of love and betrayal. A troubled mind begins to distort memory as this tense drama unfolds. Did Laura really love him? Was their relationship everything it seemed? Drifting through levels of consciousness, questioning his own existence and haunted by treachery, Hash makes a most unexpected decision.

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An American businessman and his wife's lives are turned upside-down by the British co-worker he has come to London unknowingly to replace.

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Based on a true story about the director's father - This tragi-comic short film follows the mental decline of redundant textile worker James King. James cannot cope with the bitter realities of age and his feelings of loss. He retreats into an imaginary world of his singing hero Al Jolson.

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Life and death: is it simply a question of what goes around comes around? If you've ever asked yourself, 'Are we getting our just desserts? then look no further. Life, the afterlife and kebabs: all of humanity is here.

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An elderly couple organise a Tea Party for a group of old friends. But appearances can be deceptive, nothing is quite as it seems. Someone's in for a big surprise.

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A drugs-dealer double-crosses and kills a drugs trafficker in the remote West Coast of Scotland. The dealer gets arrested and finds out he was seen by a couple of local people. Sitting on remand facing life imprisonment, with only two unnamed witnesses from the one street hamlet of Bartoun standing between him and freedom he decides to hire a hitman to kill all the potential witnesses. Outside a rural police station the hitman starts a stopwatch, jumps into his car and sets off down the road. He drives at full speed through the barren country roads until he pulls up in Bartoun. He jumps out of the car and stops the stopwatch. It reads 28 minutes 36 seconds. At noon the next day the hitman strides down Main Street, pulls out two handguns and starts shooting. Once his intial attack is over he starts his stopwatch, sets 28 minutes 36 seconds, counting down. This is how much time he has to kill everyone in the village before the police can possibly get there. Pandemonium follows within the village as he methodically hunts down his targets and people frantically try to stay alive.

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Wendell's home in the clouds is unusual and beautiful, as are the objects he creates, but his is a lonely life. When a chance encounter seems to offer him an earthier alternative, Wendell isn't sure if he dares put his feet on the ground.

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A bittersweet drama depicting the sentimental education of a young man who encounters all manner of women. Betrayal, lust and loneliness are encountered on his search for love, meaning, and the understanding of the opposite sex. Matt's entire world turns upside down when his girlfriend, Deborah, leaves him for a new life in America. The repercussions are extensive, affecting all around Matt - particularly his closest friends, Vinnie and Susie, who try in vain to cheer him up. While Matt begins the long road to recovery, meeting several women in search of new romantic vistas, Vinnie and Susie's relationship comes under increasing strain. Matt soon realises that Susie is in love with him - and, worse still, that he is in love with her.

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The Veranda is about a young artist, Victor, who tries to find silence in his actions and work. He finds it in dialogues with nature; he becomes obsessed and devotes his life to 'The Gaps', which to him become a mystical separate world that defy comprehension. Diving into this discipline, he loses his wife Josy, his friends and everything else in his life. The actions Victor performs to find these Gaps are seen worldwide; cleaning sections of desert, or walking a mile and watering the parched land, just to see what happens. He places a tree in ice, cleans shadows on the road laid down by trees, polishes rocks at Whitby, and takes 1000m of string across a huge valley to make a Stringbridge - These performances, actions or Happenings are all to find something 'other'. We meet Victor before and after his fifteen year quest. After various meetings with Charlie, who comes from the silent world he strives for, Victor has to decide between the faith of his Gaps and his last links to humanity, his sister Mina and his daughter Jo. Winner - Best Foreign Feature Award, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 2002.