Projects in categories: Fiction

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Billy 'Shiner' Simpson is determined that today is going to be his big day - his son is about to fight for a boxing world title and make him a millionaire. But Billy's dreams are shattered when his son is knocked out inside two rounds, and Billy becomes convinced that the fight was fixed and that his son took a dive - a suspicion that seems to be confirmed when the boy is shot dead soon afterwards.

So Billy - his dreams of becoming a big shot in tatters - sets out to discover who was responsible for the death of his son. Was it the rival promoter Frank Spedding? Spedding is a true big shot, American, successful and wealthy, everything Billy aspires to be. Was it his daughter Georgie who knows the family will lose everything if her half-brother loses - has she fixed the fight and bet money on the other fighter? Or was Billy's new bodyguard responsible? Why does he soon disappear after his son's killing?

And as if Billy doesn't have enough to contend with, the police are after him because they have evidence he ran illegal, bareknuckle fights and want to arrest him.

Shiner is the fast-moving, humorous, violent, tragic story of a man consumed by ambition - a man who passionately loves boxing - a man who's past catches up with him and who won't accept that he'll never make the big-time.

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Shrink is a comedy about Max, a normal 25 year-old, who goes into therapy after meeting his girlfriend's family for the first time.

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Sideshow is Romeo and Juliet meets John le Carre, a romance between two spies that can only end in tradegy.

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Simcha (meaning happiness) explores the closed world of Hasidic women through the life stories of a powerful mother/daughter team who live in the Jewish ultra-orthodox community of North London. Images of "women's work" - Ita and Hindi in the workplace and at home preparing the shabbos meal - depict the crucial role of the woman in Hasidic religious life and nurturing Jewish identity. A passionate and disturbingly-frank commentary.

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Tim Webb's latest piece is a web of deceit, double meaning, double talk and rejection with fatal outcome. The main players are a businessman, the secretary, the wife and her lover. But whose is the body in the garden?

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Skin Deep, by writer Terry Flaxton, deals with racism and prejudice in the Army and aims to examine the nature of prejudice directly.

Skin Deep has been made under the Western Lights initiative in association with the South West Media Development Agency.

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Think you know the London club scene?

Think again.

Justin Dawson is twenty-six and a successful London lawyer. He lives in a spectacular bachelor pad and has a beautiful girlfriend. Carl is Justin's twenty-four year old brother. He's a downtrodden Scunthorpe lawyer and he lives in a terraced house with his mother. When Justin dies in a tragic accident, Carl travels down to London to collect his brother's belongings. Leaving his mother and grey, mundane life behind, Carl finds he likes the thrills, the pretty girls and the London life that his brother had.

Once he digs deeper into his brother's affairs, Carl discovers a side to Justin, far from the affluent corporate lawyer he secretly envied. After meeting Justin's eclectic mix of friends, Carl's eyes are opened to the club scene that his brother was very much a part of. Sunny, Justin's beautiful, classy girlfriend, also discovers a hedonistic side to his life that she never figured in.

Carl and Sunny grow closer and together they share memories of Justin and his pipe dream of getting away from it all. When Tiffany, a tough but troubled ex-model, arrives on the scene, she seems to know more about Justin that she's letting on. Tiffany lives with the sinister and totally eccentric Damian, who runs the raves and supplies the drugs - the drugs that Tiffany uses to tempt Carl away from Sunny.

Damian is the arch manipulator and is only interested in masterminding Tiffany's seduction of Carl and his own seduction of Sunny. Tiffany is soon revealed as a pawn in Damian's game. As they're drawn into a dangerous underground web of blackmail and deceit, Carl and Sunny realise they're in too deep and Carl is forced to question how far his perfect brother was involved and whether his death was really an accident.

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Steps, by Martin Kiszo and Tim Francis, jumps between the past and the present to tell the tale of three soldiers lost in time on Steep Holm island in the Bristol Channel.

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Stress Maniacs - psychobabble game show where three real stressed-out contestants compete for a luxury break. Re-birthed into 'suspended animation', they enter the animated world of Cameron Ripple - evangelical relaxation guru and game show host. The show climaxes with the winner reaching Ripple's 'Ranch on High'!

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The first feature for director Peter Capaldi and producer Ruth Kenley-Letts. Written by Peter Capaldi.

Strictly Sinatra stars Ian Hart as Toni Cocozza, a Scottish-Italian club crooner obsessed by Frank Sinatra, who falls in with a group of local gangsters in the hope that they will make him a star. But there is a price to pay. As he is drawn by the glamour of the gangsters, in particular the Las Vegas stories of their leader Chisholm (Brian Cox), Toni begins to betray Bill (Alun Armstrong), his best friend and accompanist, and Irene (Kelly Macdonald), the local girl he loves.

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Bombers, dragsters. Time pivots around this strip of tarmac. A merge with profound parallels. As the battles continue, ghosts of the past smile on.

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Following a successful job interview in London, Alison asks her old school friends to leave their Brighton homes to flatshare up in the capital. Taryn already commutes to London where she works as a graphic designer while aimless, unemployed Charlie agrees to sleep on the inflatable sofa in the lounge.

Over the course of the next three months there will be enough sex, death, poetry and daytime television to try the patience of even the closest friends.