Projects in categories: Fiction

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What happens when a high-powered company CEO becomes dependent on the artificial intelligence that runs his office building? Who is actually in control, and does the artificial intelligence have a more developed moral sense than the man it 'serves'?
THE BUILDING explores the ethical and personal issues raised by our increased dependence on technology, teasing out the complicated power dynamic between the central character Caleb and the Ai programmed to be his assistant.

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As a young black girl falls out of love with her natural hair, a mother - through a poem - works to inspire self love and acceptance in her daughter, against a world that whispers otherwise.

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A haunted young man travels to a remote island to reconnect with his father and confront the traumatic experience they shared ten years prior that transformed their relationship.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Two teenage girls have to confront what they've left behind, before they can come to terms with where they're going.
15-year-olds Doe and Muna are going on a trip. Two girls from a dead-end seaside town, they board the train to the airport excitedly. Quiet, watchful Doe hasn’t gone anywhere since arriving in the UK the age of 3 as a refugee at from Somalia. Badass Muna, of Pakistani heritage, is the dominant force... These girls are not going on holiday, but to Istanbul, to be met by a chaperone who will take them to the Syrian border to start a new life. Disaster strikes in Istanbul when their chaperone doesn’t show. Out of their depth, they formulate a new plan to continue their journey alone. Experiencing different slices of life in the city, their resolve, faith and friendship are tested.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025

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1973. Married couple, Daphne and Darcy Davenport, are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. Here, a strange child enters their lives. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Set in 1723 London, where Thomas Neville has to hide out in a molly house - essentially the proto-queer clubs of Georgian Britain - after being caught cruising in the public toilets. Once inside, though, Thomas meets an underground community preparing for a night of revelry.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Charles, a strange lottery winner who lives alone on a secluded island, tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite singer, Herb McGwyer, to perform at a special, private event.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025

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Struggling to process the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, a young father’s hold on reality crumbles as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons. What begins as a terrifying haunting, evolves into a battle of wills between a grieving family and their uninvited, unpredictable house-guest and tormentor; a man-like Crow, seemingly brought to life from the pages of Dad’s work as an illustrator.
Based on the award-winning novel 'Grief Is the Thing With Feathers' by Max Porter.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Aiden, a widowed robotics expert channels the grief of losing his ten year-old son into creating ‘Robin’, a fully functioning robotic doll. It finally seems he has found someone to keep him company in his lofty mansion.
Aiden’s estranged nephew and his fiancé unexpectedly return to the manor hoping to patch up the family's rocky past before their big day. The loved-up pair are instantly creeped out by the lonely man’s staggeringly realistic creation.
A series of terrifying events leave the young couple suspecting there's a more sinister side to Robin that even Aiden is aware of.

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Dublin 1985. Teenager Billy is cultivating an obsession: he’s tracking down VHS tapes of films branded 'Video Nasties' – The video nasty ruckus was fuelled in the early days of home video by conservative activist Mary Whitehouse, concerned about the harmful influence of certain horror films deemed 'extreme'.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) 2025

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The fate of a couple unfolds in an unsettling way.

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The story of two full-of-life, lonely and desperate strangers. One has risked his life to come to the UK to seek asylum; the other is a bold, vivacious woman clinging on to life, looking bleakly to her future whilst not quite being able to let go of her chaotic past. Jostling between comedy and heart-breaking moments of vulnerability, our story treads the fine line between pathos and humour, where human nature and tragedy are just a part of everyday life. Cindie is jobless, childless, and her life has been spiralling - addicted to her love of a party, vaping and drink. A working-class woman about to turn 40 and at her lowest ebb, she’s offered a lifeline via a sham marriage by fixer Amel - to a political refugee, Tariq, 27. In 2025, the number of people crossing the Dover Straits to the UK to seek asylum has doubled to around 60,000; this number continues to rise. A story about drag, immigration, class and true friendship. And so much more than that - it’s a love story, a modern fairy tale, and love is something we can all relate to regardless of sex, race, or religion – love is universal.