Projects in categories: Fiction

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Two 'web pals' are amazed when their computers seem to fall in love. They take the love-struck consoles on a double-date and love blossoms - but for whom?

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Using a revolutionary micro-camera with a macro facility we see ways in which the abuse of the body can be seen as either a part of everyday life or as a shocking violation.

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Post-colonial India of 1950's, and Cotton Mary, (Madhur Jeffrey) an Anglo-Indian nurse befriends expatriate Lily Macintosh (Greta Scacchi) at the premature birth of her baby. Lily's husband John, (James Wilby) a BBC correspondent, is away working, and she is exhausted and emotional after the birth, and further devastated after realising she is unable to breast feed her child.

Mary provides a vital lifeline by taking the baby on daily trips to her crippled sister, Blossom, a wet nurse who provides milk for the infant.

The success that Mary has in arranging for the feeding of the baby makes her indispensable to Lily, who offers her a permanent position in her home as a Nanny working with her family. Mary's relationship to the baby and her burgeoning friendship with Lily gives her a unique position to operate.

Mary abuses this relationship, and deviously does everything she can to gain control of the house and achieve the prestige of being both associated with, and of extreme importance to a British family.

Cotton Mary offers a thought provoking insight into the ambitions of an Anglo-Indian woman trapped in a class-ridden, status conscious society.

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Set in the square mile of London that is home to 63 Irish pubs, County Kilburn charts the last week in London of Mickey (Ciaran McMenamin), a barman at the Waggon and Horses who decides to return to Ireland to work for his brother. But during the turmoil and chaos that conspire to turn those seven days into a near disaster, Mickey learns some important lessons about himself, his regulars and the value of community.

The film marks the feature debut of Elliot Hegarty, a twentysomething commercials director who has already won fans for his short film Archie And Stafford, shown at the 1997 Edinburgh Film Festival. Inspired by his own experiences, Hegarty fashioned a screenplay that would be easy to organise and manageable to shoot. "We wanted to do something simple, a Cheers for the UK with the wit of Clerks," says producer Nick Heyworth, a long-time collaborator of Hegarty's. "Setting the film in a pub was ideal because it meant the story can take a different direction the minute someone new walks in. We shot over three weeks but it wasn't as painful a shoot as many low-budget films because we only had one location - a disused pub in Kilburn - and a great team of collaborators."

Funded by private sources, including Watermark Films, the new company set up by Magnus Macintyre, County Kilburn was recently picked up by Alibi Films International and is now being screened to distributors. Heyworth and Hegarty are now preparing their next film, Snookered,a co-production with The Gruber Brothers, which already has Redbus on board as UK distributor.

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In the heart of Irish London, beer is thicker than water.

In Kilburn's square mile there are 63 Irish pubs. This comedy is the story of just one.

Mickey, the pub's young barman, is sure that his job is preventing him from 'getting on' in life. So he's returning to Ireland to take up a job with his brother. This, his last week should be the most enjoyable.

Fat chance. The landlord is in hospital, and Mickey is left in charge. The regulars appear on cue, taking the same seats in front of the same drinks at the same time as every other day. If only everything else about them were as predictable.

With their eccentricities, ravings and antics, Mickey's own girl trouble, and the bizarre characters who pass through the pub, it's now shaping up to be the worst week of his life.

But as his last day approaches and the madness reaches its climax, Mickey comes to understand the real people behind the regulars and more importantly, that for all of them the pub represents a home from home - a haven where all their problems can be forgotten. He'd be crazy not to stay.

Lock in. Drink up. Pass out.

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A woman travels to a bar to meet her date. As the evening falls short of her expectation she returns home alone. Shot with an extraordinary visual and lyrical complexity, Cut tracks the path of the woman's psyche as events unravel, culminating in a ritual of astonishing intensity.

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A woman goes out on a date. As the evening falls short of her expectations she returns home alone. The film tracks the woman's psyche as events unravel.

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In this bittersweet rites of passage tale, Teenie is left outside the pub by her wayward father and becomes prey to the whims and fancies of passing strangers.

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Jane Dudley, distinguished choreographer and dancer, is 87 and arthritic. Dancing Inside shows her performing with the limited movement she still has. Computer animation is used to visualise what age would otherwise disallow. Through music, images, computer animation and movement this celebrates her art, beliefs, and gratitude for the gift of life.

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A young girl's walk in the sunshine is interrupted by an encounter with an elderly over chivalrous stranger. Its an amusing incident which swiftly turns sinister, sweeping her into a world of chaos and menace. This is a psychological thriller with a savage twist.

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After a bad day a cancelled train is replaced by a bus, complete with a drunk, school kids, a mobile phone and a blind man with a guitar case.

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A dark, character-driven thriller with a sense of humour, Dead Bolt Dead is set in the sharp-suited, brutal world of London's organised crime. The story, which takes place over the course of one night, charts what happens after one gang tries to take out its rivals - and fails.



The result is two separate hostage situations, which become increasingly claustrophobic and desperate as the night wears on. The tension is leavened with dark humour and a splash of country and western music.



The film is the debut feature from a precocious duo: 19-year-old producer Paul de Villiers, who also wrote the screenplay, and director James Rogan, who is just 18. "I think I'm the youngest film director in the country," says Rogan, who learned his craft through the Children's Film Unit, working on four features for television over four years.



Despite their youth, the pair managed to get French distributor Filmsdistribution on board to handle international sales when they took to film to Cannes in May. The cast includes British television regulars James Laurenson and Neil Stuke, who can also be seen in Rob Walker's Circus. Rogan and de Villiers also managed to persuade Neneh Cherry and GUM to contribute two original songs to Edmund Butt's moody soundtrack.



Rogan and de Villiers are not hanging around to see how their first theatrical feature goes down. They already have their next two films in pre-production, Presence Of Mind for Mosca Film and Club 18-30 for Turnwheel Films. The movies are scheduled to shoot back to back starting in October.