Projects in categories: Fiction

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Jay, an astronaut scientist, alone in a spaceship controlled by the computer Laureen. Suddenly there is a military confrontation on Earth. Laureen has built in instructions to protect humans at all costs and initiates an electronic shutdown on Earth, through cyberspace, to bring it back to the stone Age. Jay tries to stop her, realises World War would destroy the planet so lets Laureen complete her task.

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Joanne Conlon's local church are replacing their statue of the Virgin Mary. Joanne is appalled as her grandmother claims she once saw this statue cry. She takes the Madonna home. But her father, Frank, has just been sacked. Joanne's mother, Sylvia becomes an instant success as a bingo caller, but Frank is furious - shouldn't he be the breadwinner? Joanne's Aunt Doreen places the statue inside her chip shop. That evening the statue cries once more. Now people come from miles to see the miracle! The local priest offers to take the statue back home. It doesn't stay in the church long. When the back of the statue's head comes off a sponge falls out. Doreen had 'encouraged' the Virgin to cry so she could sell more chips! Sylvia is offered a singing assignment, but Frank forbids it. His anger and jealousy boil over. He throws the statue into the Mersey. Sylvia jumps in after it. Frank jumps in to save his wife, forgetting he can't swim. Husband, wife and mother of God are all saved by emergency helicopter. Joanne finds the perfect home for the icon, on the grave of her grandmother. As the Virgin stands on the grave the icon starts to cry - all by herself!

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A stylish, supernatural thriller about the latest victim of a deadly virus. Andrew is working late at the office. He receives a blank email from his girlfriend. Andrew downloads the attachment, a Quick Time move shot from her web cam. He watches the shocking footage unaware that the same fate awaits him.  

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Badda bing, I am him - This mock documentary tells the story of Adam Crookshaw, a failed entertainer, whose old act consisted of only two impressions, James Mason and Christopher Walken. Gradually over the years Adam's impression of Christopher Walken has taken over his whole personality.

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A documentary, a drama, a story of myth and murder. Wanted is a weird, wilderness, western, set in the Dakota Badlands, where the last herd of buffalo cross the paths of beat-up pick up trucks smuggling bootleg whiskey onto the rez'. This is the mysterious world of the tribal cop, where DNA and dreams are accorded equal value in the hunt for a killer, where mere facts are not enough. This is the story of their loves, lives, work and the mysterious case of the Rapid Creek deaths. The facts are clear - in a little over 18 months, 8 corpses have been dragged out of a creek. Suspecting race hate as a motive, the Sioux Indians are living in fear. Intelligent, stylish and unconventional, Wanted is a feature length real life drama that uses both documentary and fiction techniques, as well as the latest digital film technology to combine film and digital video. As the Sam Peckinpah quote at the beginning of the film alludes to, the clinical facts contained in purist documentary often fall short of the moral truth of a situation. It seems that nowhere is this truer than on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where Wanted was shot.

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Waiting in a café, Sue starts imagining plans for her own wedding. It quickly becomes more complicated than she first thought and actually puts off the whole messy business.

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When Shelly asks her best friend, Andrea to make a home video of her wedding day, little does she know the disastrous consequences her hopeless camerawork could achieve. Imagine what secrets can be revealed when a camera is switched on when it should be off.

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From Welsh hill farm to city flat, Sian and her family have yelled for generations. Desperate for some peace to study, her husband pleads with her to use a quieter method of communication. She agrees to try but then forgets.

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A powerful short film about a young black man who believes he is Muhammed Ali. Based on a ten month study carried out by the film's director Rodreguez King-Dorset for the Department of Health, to explore the issues relating to schizophrenia within black African Caribbean populations living in rural England.

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Two old gangsters meet up in a derelict and deserted shower house. Are they here to settle an old score, or to make an illegal transaction? Tension builds to a climatic confrontation of macho ego, but a predictable outcome is unlikely.

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In this gently absurd film a couple are dragged into helping a man they have never met with extraordinary results.  

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A totally different take on a short film. Rather than a conventional narrative, this is a collection of vignettes showing how 5 contrasting characters: an ageing lothario; a disillusioned yuppie; a movie-obsessed kid; a tense commuter and an 80 year old distance runner find solace and reassurance in their fantasies.