Projects in categories: Fiction

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Romantic drama Summer Rain is "100% pure Brighton", in the words of co-producer Stephen Salter. Director Jonathan Glendening was keen to make a feature in and about his home town, which the film-makers describe as "Britain's sexy and funky coastal capital".



The film certainly makes the most of local talent and resources. Two of the lead actors are from Brighton, the soundtrack exploits the cream of the town's music scene, and importantly, says Salter, the funding was put together by local tax specialists who



brought in local businesses as investors.



Glendening, who has made several award-winning shorts and worked on The Madness Of King George and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, wanted his debut feature to be dramatic. "You don't get very many films like that aimed at a young audience," says Salter, who first worked with Glendening on his short The Perfect Murder, which has been incorporated into a horror anthology feature, Virtual Terror.



Glendening and co-writer Chris Rieley drew on their own experiences of Brighton life for the script, which focuses on the tangled love lives and ambitions of three Brighton girls, Michelle, Vicky and Becky. All are on the verge of their twenties and starting to decide where their lives are leading.



Production designer Atlanta Cook and DoP Peter Wignall, who was camera operator on Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, worked together to give the film a vibrant, colourful look that captures the energy of the town.

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A film that looks at our day of rest. Driven by natural sound, rhythm and music, Sunday reveals our leisure, spiritual and consumer rituals by looking at the familiar and the unusual, the collective and individual.

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A date with mysogyny and madness?

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A down-on-his-luck Italian backpacker thinks his luck has changed when he sees an advert for table help. But this is before he falls into the clutches of the owner of the Embassy Bar...

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An elderly cricket-mad Yorkshireman finally invites the local shopkeeper on a date to Lords. Things however do not go quite according to plan...

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Tales from the Reading Room an innovative docu-drama revealing intimate tales of the many romantic encounters that blossomed amongst scholars, during their study in the famous British Library. This delightful film is set in the stunning circular Reading Room and, as the last film crew to gain access to this building, the film exposes the dramatic closing of this historic library.

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A taxi driver subjects his passenger to his views on life. Unknown to him, his fare is changing from a man to woman in the back of the cab. A very un-PC comedy.

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A mini cab appears and Alistair assumes that his disaster of an evening is over - only to discover that it is just beginning.

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Based in Ireland, this romantic comedy tells the story of Harry Mckee, a sleazy local TV chat show host. Once a loving husband, Harry has become a drunken, unfaithful slob. His wife Ruth is divorcing him and taking his house, his money and his children.





On his last night as a married man he ends up drunk and is beaten up. The next day at the divorce hearing, when he keels over, his wife and solicitor assume he is pulling a fast one. However, this is not one of Harry's infamous pranks and as he is rushed to hospital Ruth is furious to still be legally 'Mrs McKee'. Harry eventually wakes up from a week long coma feeling like it's been years. Well, 25 years to be exact. Harry has lost his memory. He used to drink to forget, well now he's forgotten everything since 1974. Inside his sagging middle-aged body he feels 18, single and very naïve. But as Harry starts to recover physically, if not mentally, Ruth finds herself unwittingly remembering happier times with her soon to be ex-husband.

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The Alcohol Years is Carol Morley's personal odyssey of rediscovery through the people that once populated her alcohol fueled life in Manchester between 1982 and 1987. These years span the opening of the Hacienda night club to the 'tenth summer', a ten year anniversary of punk.

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It's a big day for Mr. Grearson. He has a doctor's appointment that could change his life in a major way, only Dr Reynolds has the answers.

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Confined by his work to a small studio apartment, we follow the progress of The Artist as he tries to follow his dreams in New York City. Working on a large drawing from start to finish, he talks of influences and past work. Stephen's understated sense of humour simmers throughout.