Projects in categories: Fiction

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Caitlin is a young freelance photographer living in an oppressive and impersonal city. Following a series of events, both economic and spiritual, that result in a global recession and subsequent mass unemployment, Caitlin watches as the people around her attempt to come to terms with living a life that no longer seems safe or familiar. At first Caitlin sets out to record the everyday people affected by the crash, whose plight is being almost completely ignored by the mass media, who seem interested in reporting nothing but feel-good propaganda and help perpetuate what amounts to a news blackout. With the crisis continuing to grow, many turn to religious cults that recommend increasingly violent action against the people they believe to be responsible for the global recession. As lawlessness descends upon the city, what remains of the established orders begins a brutal crack down and Caitlin is forced to take drastic action in order to save herself.

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Based on the filmmaker's collection of British newspaper cuttings, Everyday Something features interlocking private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life. The characters demonstrate their longings as we witness their thwarted lives and strategies for survival eg a woman who can't stop jogging, a man obsessed with Claudia Schiffer.

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A sleepy seaside town, Rachel and Mike are camping on the outskirts of town. Nearby in her campervan is young Israeli Maya and her sister Dannie. As Rachel pursues the sixteen year old son she abandoned years ago, Mike pursues Dannie. Relationships are tested to breaking point.

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Conceptual artist Ryan Exidore attempts the greatest performance of his life. Having been caught with a truck load of drugs he must use the art of spin to convince a high court jury that they were all for personal consumption.

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Fallen Dreams is the first feature from four-time award winning shorts director, Daniel Samray. It is about a group of friends living in a big private building who have been given twenty-four hours to vacate the property. Karen is seven months pregnant. Her boyfriend, Ian, is currently out of work and is trying to get his life back in order before the baby is born. However, without a fixed abode he is finding it hard to find a job. Arthur is Ian's best friend who is having an affair with Karen. He thinks the baby she is carrying is his and not Ian's. Alice is going out with Trevor who is obsessed and addicted to sex with multiple partners and is turned on only by girls who are currently seeing someone else. Jim is an old man living in the basement of the property with a lot of hatred for the young guys living upstairs. In the tension of the last day, all their relationships are tested to a point where they get involved in a homicide.

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Linda St Clair, the notorious dominatrix better known as 'Miss Whiplash', has left her kinky dungeon in London and retired to a farm in Herefordshire. She is seen in her new role as a 'duckherd', giving handy hints on recycling old instruments of torture and demonstrating the correct use of a bollock crusher.

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A teenage boy returns home in the dark and is unnerved by a sound.

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Rites of passage story about Jimmy, a sensitive young teenager of mixed race growing up on a rough inner city estate in the North of England.

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By their bonfires and blazing crosses, the people of Lewes in Kent commemorate the burning of the protestant martyrs during the Marian persecutions of the Sixteenth Century. Flicker takes us on a phantasmagorical journey on one such night of flames.

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In a rundown tenement building Flickerman, a reclusive agoraphobic, strikes up an unusual bargain with the Ivory Skinned Woman. In return for cuttings from his prized possession, an exotic plant, she brings him images of the world on Super-8 film.

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When Jack breaks up with his girlfriend, his life is turned upside-down - literally, as gravity completely changes direction, and he wakes up on the ceiling! Stuck upside-down in a cottage in the middle of nowhere, how will he survive?

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A romantic essay on a modern Icarus and his metal flying angel. Some call it freedom, some call it flying saucers, some call it insane, some call it living, some are seen dying, some call it flying, some call it heaven, some call it hell.