Projects in categories: Fiction

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Is life getting you down? - Sick of the rat race? - Romance is dead? Then . . . 'It Could Be You!' the comedy film with kinky sex games, erotic dancing and more balls than you could ever imagine.



Go on, cheer yourself up, you know you want to!

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It was in part thanks to the success of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels that It Was An Accident got off the shelf and into production. Screenwriter Ol Parker first got hold of the novel by Walthamstow-based former probation officer Jeremy Cameron in 1996, adapted it and teamed up with producer Paul Goodman. But film executives didn't get the stylised vocabulary and frenetic pacing - it was way too ahead of its time. But in the post-Lock, Stock world, Parker's script, now with director Metin Huseyin on board, found an enthusiastic backer in Lottery franchise studio Pathe Pictures.



Goodman is quick to point out the differences between his film and Guy Ritchie's. "They share similar language but this has heart and soul," he says. The film stars two of Britain's most promising young actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor (most recently wowing theatre audiences in Blue Orange at the National Theatre) and Max Beesley (reunited with Metin Huseyin after the BBC serial Tom Jones).



It was the richness of the language in Cameron's novel that appealed to Parker and Goodman. That Parker and Huseyin had both lived in Walthamstow gave them an insight into the area's particular brand of East End culture and helped turn what could have been just another London gangster flick into a film that, as Huseyin says, is "very funny about violence, but underpinned by a serious story about a guy you want to succeed trying to go straight".



The film is looking for spots on the international festival circuit. "We'd like to see it at Toronto because it's a multi-cultural town that we know will respond to the film and that will help with a US sale," says Goodman.

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Disillusioned, Jack can take no more. Using three acquaintances as a metaphor for moralities, Jack offers a solution. Society is an aberration - Jack is the cure...

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Jean leads a charmed life until a mysterious young man breaks into her bedroom while she is preparing a special dinner. Who is he and what does he want?

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Employing the power of modern genetics, a lonely old scientist strives to create his perfect woman. By stealing single hair samples from twenty choice ladies, his premeditated scheming nears completion. Last on his list of lovely ladies lies a beautiful woman call Jean, whose hair sample will fulfil his dreams.

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After abandoning his dog because it pisses on the floor, a heavy drinker realises he cannot live without his only companion and goes back to save it.

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It is in 1947. India has been given its independence from British rule. The state of Pakistan, the first state to be created as a homeland for Muslims has been painfully born. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan realizes this great ambition and a year later succumbs to the illness through which he has willed himself to live. He is rushed to the hospital and when the ambulance stalls on the highway his life begins to ebb. In is coma Jinnah relives the dilemmas and triumphs of his life, the drama of his ideals, his romance, his happiness and the tragedy of the death of his wife.


Jinnah tells the dramatic story of the partition of India, the final intrigue and arguments between the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, Jinnah, Gandhi and Nehru and the mercurial Lady Mountbatten. It takes the handsome young idealist Jinnah on the journey through which his dream of freeing the people of India from the burden and the insult of foreign rule is twisted and tempered by the realities and cruelties of politics. It is the story of a practical visionary who knew that on his word hung the future of a nation, who knew also that such a birth meant a division of a country and of his family, because his only daughter had married an Indian and would remain in India.

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A modern micro retelling of the old balcony scene.

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A vibrant tale of self-discovery, interwoven into a magical exploration of a wild Northern landscape.

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A tricky traffic warden, a cheeky copper and a hen party packed with chicks. It can only spell trouble.

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A father and his daughter go to Denmark on their yearly holiday. A stranger turns up and the relationship changes...

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Eleven-year-old Nina copes with her father's temporary relationships by storing organic relics of his ex-girlfriends in jars.