Projects in categories: Fiction

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School Disco is about embarrassment. Set in pre-teen school gym, we follow a number of likely lads and lasses as they try out their bogus 'adult' personas for the first time.

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Shy bank clerk escapes into the world of his dreams.

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An aggressive young woman tries to apprehend a burglar in her own property. But her attempt to stop violence with violence is thwarted when he shuts her out of her own flat. She tries to get help but no one comes. Finally she uses the power of speech to resolve the situation.

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A poetic look at the tragic events during a night-time shift of two Asian-Briton doctors.

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Can we live a life of total safety, free from risks? Or is a death wish lurking with even the most cautious mind?

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Paul's life is about hitting targets; reducing the number of alcohol units he consumes and increasing the number of hotel consumables he sells. Set in the world of corporate hotels, the rehab centre, sales meetings and a 1996 Ford Mondeo, the film explores the relationship between addiction and breakdown.

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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.