Projects in categories: Fiction

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Mrs Buchan and her followers believe they will gain salvation in the forthcoming Doomsday if they style their hair into large quiffs. Their faith is shaken when one of the sect begins to wear platform boots instead. A black comedy satirising extreme religious belief.

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An urban tragedy about a mother and daughter relationship destroyed by drugs. A contemplation on grief and loss.

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When Tessa's English father leaves his Italian wife and family stranded and penniless in the English countryside, each family member comes up with a different, quirky, way of coping with the crisis.

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The unusual plight of one man after his life and love have led him into a precarious position. A lighthearted look at the darker side of dating.

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As some even-tempered men nurse a pint in the pub, their world is overturned by a new arrival.

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I speak of the Restorer of What Was Lost,

The Mender of What Was Broken.

Philip K. Dick


Mystery Play is an upbeat comic drama about a mysterious company who intervene in people's lives at times of crisis.


Sadie meets Jude at her therapists'. While waiting, they get talking, Jude revealing that he is there for a loan. Sadie suggests that Shelby, the therapist, might do financial work as a sideline (it's only her second visit). Jude feels that Shelby does counselling as a sideline . . .. Flashbacks reveal how they both came to be there, and the truth is emerges about the enigmatic Layton Shelby, who is neither a counsellor nor a financial advisor, but something more . . . much more.

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As a result of his unhappy homelife and overbearing father, a boy begins to develop a worrying and nervous habit. This only increases his father's annoyance of him at the dinner table, creating a very unsettling atmosphere. Only when a violent act is perpetuated does the mother take matters into her own hands with gruesome consequences.

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Two boys are caught up their father's grief after their mother's death. But the arrival of their estranged grandmother sets in motion a power struggle that threatens to confront the ghosts of the past.

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A thief is haunted by the notion of light and the end of the sun. He has a gun and finds a quiet restaurant to rob. He changes his mind, but a little girl who is playing with the light in a mirror catches his attention.

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When Mr and Mrs Peach's neighbours emigrate to Australia, they leave the grieving Peaches anxiously twitching the net curtains of their suburban home wondering who will arrive next door. The new neighbours, Mr and Mrs Chapman, prove to be far from the ideal couple the Peaches had dreamed of. They are loud, rude and aggressive.


Mr Peach takes an instant dislike to the 'flash' Chapmans aggravated by the fact that, as a desperately bad salesman, he is getting deeper and deeper into debt. Mr Peach is struggling to hold onto his job, his house and his mind and as the bills mount up and the creditors move in he begins to slip further and further into his own interior world, obsessing about the new neighbours and increasingly perceiving them as the enemy. It is not long before he is spying on their every move, making complaints against them, even damaging their property. The Chapmans, outraged at his 'interfering, busy-body' behaviour, begin to retaliate, until both sets of neighbours are caught up in an intensifying feud. Their problems escalate out of all proportion and when Mr Chapman dares to stamp on Mr Peach's prize winning pansies a fight breaks out in the garden and Chapman beats up Peach. Mr Peach finally deems his neighbours responsible for all his problems and in one final conflict, decides to make them pay.


Nasty Neighbours is a thrilling black comedy. It puts England under the spotlight and exposes cracks in the veneer of cul-de-sac life. Funny, sad and fiercely original it is the debut feature film of Debbie Isitt.

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Tom thinks women inhabit the planet for one thing. Paul Bright is the opposite. For all their differences, they have a good friendship.

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Negative Space, is an experiment that's accessible to anyone who cares about movies, using split screen to question how we look at and remember films, and to look at how film changes with time.