Projects in categories: Fiction

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A tranquil village pub. Three young people settle down in the beer garden for a peaceful pint. A troupe of Morris dancers arrives. An American tourist films the quaint traditional scene on his camcorder. The three drinkers don't like Morris dancers. And they make their feelings known.

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Morvern Callar is a 21 year old supermarket worker from a small port town in the west of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something you get on with as best you can with what you've got. One morning Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor.

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Homeless, aging, unstable, Don is a man without a role or a future.
As Christmas approaches on the streets of Brighton, a fragile life falls apart unnoticed. Perhaps the factory of time and motion is the answer to Don's prayers.

Motion is a journey into an unseen Britain. An emotionally charged and uncompromising digital vision, it was made over a period of 18 months on a budget of just £3,000. First-time director Tom Clay brings a new closeness to life on the fringes, using hidden camera techniques to merge fiction and real life, before delivering a final act of unexpected transcendence.

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Jon Bennet is an ideal employee: neat, efficient and conscientious.

Nobody would guess that this self-conscious introvert tortures and kills to earn his living, but for those who understand his trade Jon is more than just a journeyman murderer, he is an artist of growing reputation.

Jon works for the Tattooed Man, an awesome figure whose taste for cruelty is only outweighed by his erudite learning and penchant for philosophy. The Tattooed Man takes care of Jon. He feeds, clothes and educates his protege, asking for nothing in return but unquestioning loyalty.

By chance Jon encounters Andy and Cathy - old friends from school, now married with a child - and the cosy normality of their lives awakens him to the unsatisfactory nature of the twilight world he inhabits. As Jon finds himself drawn towards Cathy in a way he has never experienced before, he begins to question everything that he has become.

Torn between Cathy and the Tattooed Man, he becomes Mr In-Between. But the Tattooed Man will not tolerate a rival. Jon must act, and act fast. Everything is at stake. The safety of his friends and the redemption of his soul.

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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War is the poignant, warm and often funny story of an ordinary woman who, after being pushed around by others for most of her life, finally decides to stand up for herself.

Thelma Caldicot has endured thirty years of dull, boring marriage to a dominating and insensitive husband. When two police officers bring the news of her unexpected widowhood, a sequence of events lead to a radical change in her way of life.

Before she has time to take stock of her new situation, her son Derek, an ambitious man in spite of inheriting his father's dullness, arrives with his dreadful family and begins to interfere and dominate her life.

After years of being bullied and pushed around, Mrs Caldicot's dormant self awakens, making her determined to take charge of her own life. Forced out of home into care, she acquires a band of strange new friends who look to her for help and assistance. These new responsibilities give her life a purpose, allowing her to find the courage to face up to any adversity, whether it comes in the shape of an unpleasant TV personality or the odious manager of a Rest Home.

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San Francisco, Monday May 14th. Four people's lives are about to be changed by a blueberry muffin, an act of God, and some stolen dollar bills.

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Nick is obsessed with his neighbours strange nightly activities. Eventually he becomes drawn into a bizarre world. A world where he is prime suspect in the kidnapping of a schoolgirl. His flatmate films him constantly and his girlfriend has become a stripper. Reality is not what it seems.

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A pregnant woman starts to hear strange voices in her head. Voices which tell her to kill - could this be the result of the recent nuclear fall-out?

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Having left Brixton and become a successful business woman, Tiki returns to catch up on her old flame, Soweto. He appears to have wasted his life away, living in a squat. The two people and cultures collide but has Tiki got it all figured out?

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Jilted by a lying fiancée, an English artist lands in leafy New England and falls in love with a local girl. When his pathological former fiancée pursues to reclaim him, he must rescue new love from a web of untruth.

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1920: Arthur and Charlotte, a couple deeply in love, are making the most of a perfect sunny day in the park. But they are hotly pursued by Nigel, who is determined to reclaim his lost love. Passions reach fever pitch in this short silent movie.

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Nightwindows turns the viewer into a floating voyeur, offering brief but compelling glimpses of people's private worlds beyond the window frame. From a happy gathering at a dinner party to the mysterious noiresque figure in a dimly lit stairwell we are invited to ponder and project, unnoticed, our own interpretations.