Projects in categories: Fiction

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Jake and Steven are 16 and living in a small town on the South coast. It's the end of Christmas term and they're excited about the skiing holiday they're about to go on. But it's not just the holiday, it's everything. 16 going on 17 is a great age to be, and Jake and Steven know that the next year is going to be the best ever, with better parties, more laughs, even less parental control and all the girls a year older and maybe this year they'll make good promises.


So Jake, Steve and their classmates go with Mr. Diamond, their English teacher, to France to ski. One of their friends, Heather, has brought along a videocam and is making a documentary about them all, what they want, who they want, ambitions and fear, that kind of thing. Day one they hit the official slopes but the next days it's off-piste. The eleven friends lark about for Heather's camera when BANG! The avalanche hits and they're all swept away on a sea of snow.


Jake wakes up buried in a snow-cave next to Steven. He thinks they're both goners but next time he wakes up it's hospital, rescued. He finds Steven in a nearby bed. Everyone is dead, all of them, Heather, Mr. Diamond, everyone . . .


Back home it's a huge tragic news story. Jake and Steven fly back to their families and a grieving town with the coffins of their friends on the plane with them. As the town, school and families struggle to come to terms with it, Jake and Steven are lost, separated from everything, unable to understand.


They meet and talk. Why didn't we die too? What should we do? What's the point? They stand on a high cliff and look down. Should they jump? No. They decide they'll make a book and fill it with a series of tasks, not important tasks, just things they want to do before they die. And they'll spend the year doing them . . .

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A young Malaysian woman struggles to integrate herself in a less restrained Scottish culture, while maintaining her identity with the life she's left behind.

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The aim of this is to create a piece that reflects the realities and emotional journeys of young doctors in Britain. It also aims to present the experiences of young Asian Britons in a fresh and understated way.

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An errant husband and neglectful father attempts to heal his relationship with his family by making supper. With the food ready he awaits their approval.

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A few hours in the life of Simon as his life disintegrates around him following a terrible accident. But time is not on his side and ghosts are closing in. Simon doesn't want to be a hero. Who does?

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A beautiful, mysterious woman lures a young man into her hotel room. On his way there his imagination plays a cruel trick on him, but the biggest trick is left for the audience.

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A journey through space and time while we watch the history of humans on the planet through the eye of a concerned child.

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Watching the plight of the Albanian refugees, I realised that news footage has a tendency to be cold, distant and we feel unable to help! A more sensitive approach brings these desperately troubled people closer to us, revealing the human aspect of the conflict and the personalities behind those lonely faces.

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Marie, Freddie and Dodo inhabit the night. Each story takes us on a journey where the characters reach the depths of disillusionment before they find the light that will see them through to the next morning.

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In a time when women were expected to conform, Nora, a spirited young woman who has been abused all her life, has her world changed when she meets raffish young writer James Joyce and the pair succumb to a mutual desire.


Persuading him to start a future together away from Dublin, the couple set up home in Trieste, where their passionate and tempestuous life together begins. Joyce is tormented by a fear his work will never be published, but Nora's simplicity and humour anchor his instability and the couple's relationship is bonded by a direct, deep sexual love.


Joyce's complex, torturous nature leads him to irrationally distrust Nora and his attraction to the theme of betrayal motivates him in his work. Nora, faithful and devout, is the one who is being betrayed - in Joyce's manipulation of her as a fuel for his writing.


Ultimately their love is so strong, so all-consuming, that through the subsequent years of turbulence, of Joyce's obsessive behaviour and Nora's courageous and desperate struggle to save their relationship, from Trieste back to Dublin, their devotion conquers all.

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A young single mum tries to escape her claustrophobic existence but finds herself caught up in yet another . . .

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A story about international film students. Deep in its realism, sharp in its critique and uncompromising in its observations on pretentious film student life.