Projects in categories: Fiction

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Three small time punters attempt to put the squeeze on Bookie Bob, Oscar winner, Rod Steiger. Tipped off by Bob's restless wife, Tara Fitzgerald, the kidnapping hoods are seduced by the master craft of Bookie Bob, ultimately falling prey to his classic reverse con.

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Three small-time hoods try to put the squeeze on Bookie Bob. Tipped off by his wife, the hoods are seduced by the master craft of Bob.

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Thomas is obsessed by outer space and the girl next door. He has finally come up with a plan to feel worthy of her. However, things would be a lot easier if the strange woman downstairs would leave him alone...

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A love story in which various black and white photographs dissolve into one another, mixed with ditial effects, as we hear the final thoughts of a man dying of Aids.

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Bill is a psychiatrist with a problem - one of his patients has glued him to a building 50 feet up and its about to start raining. Fortunately help is on hand in the mysterious from of Polly - can she save the day before Bill becomes unstuck?

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Looking in a changing room mirror a teenager worries about the way she looks as she develops into a woman. Her thoughts turn from clothes to boyfriends, to Burger King until she discovers she is not alone.

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The story of a rat catcher, his laboratory, & one daring rat . . .

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From Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning writer and director of The English Patient, comes this unique adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller.





To be young and rich in sun-drenched Italy. That's the life Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves - and Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) leads. A young man with no direction of his own, Ripley has been commissioned by Dickie's wealthy father to journey to Italy and persuade the prodigal playboy to return home to America.





However, on arrival Ripley is instantly captivated with Dickie's charmed existence: the Amalfi villa, the jaunts to Rome, the first class hotels, and the beautiful expatriate (Gwyneth Paltrow) who completes the triangle. Dickie is amused by his new acquaintance - never suspecting the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make this lifestyle his own.

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'One man's decent through Dr Rex Otto's infamous rules'.

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To eleven year old Taliesin Jones, God is as palpable as the apple he buys on his way to school, as real as the rain which trickles down his neck, as near as the warts on his fingertips. In Cqmglum where he lives on a farm in rural Wales, God is all around, even at school where Hoop The Mental hits him on the nose, and earthy Julie Dyer blows confusing smoke rings at him.


Others don't see the world the way he does. When his mother leaves home with her hairdresser to put more colour in her life, Taliesin is left behind with his distracted father, sullenly adolescent brother and his own creeping uncertainty to try and make sense of this sudden conspiracy of events. It is only with elderly Billy Evans, piano teacher and part time healer that Taliesin finds a source of miracles, miracles which transform his life . . .


The Testimony of Taliesin Jones is a beautifully measured story exploring the troubled borderland between childhood and adolescence. Poetic, precisely observed and filled with humour, it examines the resources of imagination and faith to which children can turn when faced with the confusion and imperfection of the adult world they are about to enter.

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When Tal Jones' mother leaves home to live with her hairdresser, the 12-year-old boy is left to deal with his uncommunicative father (Jonathan Pryce) and bitter older brother (Matthew Rhys), as well as all the other problems of growing up in a Welsh farming community, such as bullying, piano lessons and warts.



The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones takes an unexpected turn, when Tal finds out his elderly piano teacher Billy Evans (Ian Bannen, in one of his last roles before his death last year) is a faith healer. Billy heals Tal's warts, inspiring him to form his own gang, the Believers, who land in trouble when they try to cure a school mate with diabetes. The result is a story about God, belief and miracles.



Based on Welsh writer Rhidian Brook's first novel, which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1997 and was shortlisted for Welsh Novel of the Year, the material had particular appeal for director Martin Duffy, who had worked with healer Finbarr Nolan on his autobiography Seventh Son Of A



Seventh Son.



Unknown actor John-Paul Macleod was chosen from hundreds of hopefuls for the title role.



Duffy's first feature, The Boy From Mercury, won several awards, including three of the main prizes at the Giffoni children's film festival in Italy. His next film is The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, starring Elijah Wood and Janeane Garofalo. The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones had its first screening in the Cannes market in May.

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Shaun Mosley's The Three Kings is based on one of the most famous stories in the world - the journey of the three magi to Bethlehem to honour the birth of Jesus Christ.



Paul Freeman, Neran Persaud and Kwame Kwei Armah star as the three wise men, while Ron Moody, best known as Fagin in the film Oliver, is the evil Herod and Vanessa Redgrave a high priestess.



Mosley, whose debut film was Alec, spent several years researching his film and then teamed up with Rod Turner, a producer whose previous two films, Let's Stick Together and Intimate With A Stranger, earned him the reputation of someone who made films that made decent returns for their backers. Turner then scanned actors' directory Spotlight for the faces to fit the characters and struck lucky - apart from Freeman, Redgrave and Moody, he also cast rising star Sienna Guillory as the European magi's daughter who, after the death of her brother, accompanies her father on his travels.



With the budget raised from a number of private backers, filming began in late summer last year in Tunisia.



The film recently premiered at the Emden Film Festival in Germany and Turner hopes to see it at key UK festivals in the autumn.