Projects in categories: Fiction

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This collaborative film is based on a short poem The Lines by Andrew Motion. Animated text in the landscape and electro acoustic sound interact to interpret and experiment with meanings contained in the poem.

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Mina has just arrived in a new city and is looking for somewhere to live. Her search becomes difficult and absurd when an estate agent makes her go through a series of bizarre tests to prove her worth. Mina eventually has to resort to seduction to be awarded a flat.

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A contemporary romantic comedy set in the heart of multi-cultural Bradford. Vivek, a pest controller, steals a pot of magic ointment from the cockroach-infested flat of Bekai Basu - a self-professed love-doctor.

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The Magdalene Asylums in Ireland were run by the Sisters of Mercy on behalf of the Catholic Church. Young girls were sent there by families or orphanages and once there, were imprisoned and sent to work in the laundries where they could atone for their sins. Their sins varied from being unmarried mothers to being too pretty, too ugly, simple minded, too clever or being a victim of rape and talking about it. And for their sins they worked 364 days a year unpaid, they were half starved, beaten, humiliated, raped, their children forcibly removed from them. Their sentence was indefinite. Thousands of women lived and died there. The last Magdalene Asylum in Ireland closed in 1996, five years ago. This film is from the point of view of four of these young women in the 1960s, an era mistakenly seen by some as a time of unchallenged female liberation. These young Catholic women find themselves in an almost medieval nightmare whilst the outside world tacitly (or in some cases actively) supports a theocratic state. It looks at how their personalities develop for better and for worse in an environment controlled and dominated by celibate women, servants of God, Brides of Christ. In their own ways the girls refuse to be beaten, but what victory is there if they remain imprisoned as little more than slaves? One gets out in a heartbreakingly banal fashion, one is imprisoned in a mental asylum, two finally rebel, run away, escape. It is a fictional film that unfortunately happens to be true.

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Mythical drama set on an enchanted stretch of coastline. When a deaf girl chances on an abandoned wheelchair, she discovers the incredible secret of the 'Magic Mile'. Finding herself in a strange and unfamiliar world, she picks up the trail of the wheelchair's owner who reveals that miracles have their limits.  

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Adopted as a baby and taken to England, Daniel Meeks returns to the town of his birth in search of his real family. He finds himself embroiled in a fight for the ownership of the town and to free the soul of the late Lucius Meeks, Daniels great, great grandfather. Regarded by the town as an evil gun-slinger, Lucius had an affair with the fiancée of Joshua Carter, the town's owner, and shot them both dead in the street during an argument over land rights. Lucius' ghost appears to Daniel to clear his name and allow him to rest in peace. Daniel quickly adapts to 'life out West' and goes on to discover the truth about his discredited gun-slinging relative, picking up clues along the way which help him to track down his real mother too.

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Three guys appear at the gates of Heaven, stunned. St Peter himself is surprised to see them there all at once. Three flashbacks show what happened.

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The Mystic Masseur, a joyful drama of optimism, self-belief and wondrous imagination, that can work miracles. Based on the first novel of Nobel winning V S Naipaul,The Mystic Masseur , is the first ever film adaptation of any of Naipaul's work. The Mystic Masseur tells the story of 'Ganesh', a struggling author, who finds his fortune when he discovers he has an ability to cure people's minds. It is rare to see a rags-to-riches story in which we are so intimately involved with the characters, so sympathetic to them, and led so easily to understand that riches may not always be a good trade for the happiness of youthful ambition.

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A darkly comic tale about Cann Ignatius a man under pressure. By day, put upon by a pernicious office junior. His work piles higher and ever higher, and by night, frustratingly kept awake by a neighbours midnight D.I.Y sessions. To top all this, his once full fridge is now empty.

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When Stevie meets Neil on the day he comes to deliver her new kitchen, it's already too late for love at first sight. Stevie's already five minutes pregnant by her Italian footballer husband Andrea; and it's too late for Neil too - his wife Jenny has already sent off for an African child to adopt. But too late or otherwise, love at first sight is exactly what happens. How can Neil and Stevie get out of their mistaken marriages and into each other's arms? Simple really - while Neil contemplates suicide under the Angel of the North, his wife is run over on her way to buy a pint of milk. Andrea proves harder to shift, but eventually, via the arms of a twenty year old beautician, tells the truth (in perfect English, too) about what he really thinks of women. Is perfect harmony in sight, in this comedy set in Newcastle?

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A hypochondriac air hostess is convinced she has tongue cancer until she finds salvation from an unlikely source

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England 14th century. Plague and bandit attacks threaten remote communities and the forests that surround them add nameless terrors. The people labour under the yoke of two oppressive powers - the Church laying claim to their souls and the Knights, the feudal warlords, who command life after death. Nicholas, a young priest, is discovered in the act of adultery by an enraged husband who dies in the ensuing struggle. Appalled by his fall from grace, he turns his back on the Church and goes on the run. Destitute and forced to hide his privileged origins, Nicholas joins a troupe of travelling actors who have just lost one of their number. He is falling for Sarah, the beautiful sister of the troupe's leader, but the shame of his past leads him to conceal his passion. He begs to stay and learn the mysteries of the actor's craft. The small town where they plan to perform The Fall of Adam and Eve is under a dark cloud of fear. A boy has been murdered, and the town's sheriff has been swift to lay the blame on a deaf and dumb girl, Martha, who can do nothing to defend herself, but whose striking looks captivate Martin. Realising that the crime is not the first, the actors set on a course of action, which will expose a serial killer.