Projects in categories: Fiction

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On a cold autumn evening, a young mother and her bewildered daughter run to catch a train. There's been a delay. On the station, we watch the other travellers from the girl's point of view as the veneer of civilised behaviour cracks under the strain of waiting. The girl's wild imagination has the ability to transform banal reality wherever she looks.

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A journalist researches an obsessive sculptor and his partner whose work is becoming increasingly dangerous.

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When Xavier's girlfriend defenestrates his guitar, he decides he's had enough of London and returns to his hometown in the Midlands. There he looks up his old friends, visits childhood haunts and begins to re-evaluate the contrasts between north and south which are not as defined as he had suspected.

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An art student is drawn to the room of a bed-ridden old man. He may or may not be a magician. She may or may not be an angel.

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Samuel finally convinces Hanne to join him on a date. They have a great time, but Hanne is going away to study. Samuel promises he will wait for her...

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Subterfugue is an exiting and innovative piece of work which tells the story of a mother and daughter who have been separated at birth and cross paths by chance on the London Underground. The moment of their encounter provokes a flash of memory in both women who revisit a dream they both had where their alternate fates unite in the ebb and flow of the city.

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A young girl meets a man by the riverside. They form a friendship that will last forever - well, at least until the maggots come . . .

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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...