Projects in categories: Fiction

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A boy thinks his dog wants to fly! So he helps him fulfil his dream.

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Seven very different people are gathered in a brightly lit but sparsely furnished white room. The only thing they have in common is Virgil Guppy. Virgil isn't there having just been flattened by a ten ton truck. Virgil's odyssey unfolds as the seven wait in the white room. Virgil Guppy is going to buy a car. Not just any car but a luxury car. This is more than a simple deal. Virgil is not just buying a car, he is buying the last piece of the jigsaw that, with the flat, the job, the wardrobe, even the girlfriend, fit together to make up what Virgil hopes is his identity. Virgil buys the Jaguar, low mileage but slightly damaged bodywork, from David Leer and his son Buddy, two clearly dodgy dealers. Sure enough within four miles the car dies quite spectacularly. Virgil fails to claim his money through the courts and, worse still, his car came with the optional extra of a dead body hidden in the boot. Virgil is arrested for murder and an impressive array of circumstantial evidence is presented by witnesses as varied as Sydney Greengrass, a retired accountant, who has the unnerving habit of hitching his curiously shaped trousers up way past the nipple line and Poppy Fields, a middle-aged Prostitute fast reaching her sell-by date. Virgil is convinced he has been framed by David Leer, but David Leer seems to have disappeared. Once out on bail, Virgil's jigsaw starts to fall apart . . .

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A woman makes bread in her kitchen. The bread dough, through the care it is given and vigorous kneading, grows into a huge blob. Somehow, the blob gets into her bed. The film steps from the kitchen and bedroom experiences to make a fast, rhythmic, humorous and poignant film.

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Candy is a darkly comic, cautionary tale of a supermodel's decline. It is also the story of Sandra - a twelve year-old girl from the suburbs who dreams glamour and fame. Will Sandra end up like the model, Candy? Are they, in fact, the same person?

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The Edinburgh Samba School has been playing Brazilian samba around Scotland for ten years. This year they and their kilted mascot, Hamish, join the drag parade kicking off Brazil's famous Olinda Carnival.

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Carol and Nancy is the story of how a tragedy brought two very different families together.

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Initially an exercise in what might be achievable with a digital video camera, one actor, one location and no budget. Filmed in a squat in central London, it is a not entirely serious, ten minute insight into one mans self justification of the suicidal game he plays through his over inflated ego and lack of common sense.

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Two men and a woman meet in a deserted junkyard. But love, betrayal and an old holiday photograph leave only one survivor . . .

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This documentary is more than anything a film about punk ideology told by punk survivors. The characters have been faithful to the 70's riot, have developed their aggression into reflective thoughts and opinions. In making our film we have discovered the extremes within this community and how, after more than twenty years, the music is still as popular today.

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After a couple's home is burgled, the girl falls for the housebreaker.

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Conquest is the story of a North American prairie town: of a young man who believes that despite the town's decline it is still the most wonderful, beautiful place on earth; and of an exotic young woman from the north of England who has travelled the world in search of a place to belong, and despite her reluctance may just have found it. Conquest has seen better days. Most people have moved away and those who have stayed are getting on a bit. Except Pincer Bedier. At 32, he has returned to run the small bank and he is not afraid of spending his bank's money to keep the town alive! The most cynical is Grace Gallagher, a woman in her 70's who has never given up on her dream to live in a real place like Rome. Beautiful and mysterious Daisy MacDonald lands in town when her sports car breaks down. To Daisy, Pincer's town is the end of the earth, the last place she can see herself staying. Her presence begins to perk up the town. Daisy however has found herself with a problem. She's fallen in love with the banker. In this off-beat romantic comedy, almost everyone gets what they want. Grace finds a way to escape. Pincer finds a way for his dreams to live on and Daisy finds the nerve to get off the road.

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This programme presents the experience of fatherhood through the eyes of 10 very different men. Their personal stories will help all prospective fathers understand and cope with the changes in their lives that parenthood brings.