Projects in categories: Fiction

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A short film about love and friendship in the afternoon.

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Mark, a botanist, is bitten by a sick woman while on a field trip. He is infected with a virus that makes him crave fresh human meat. On returning to London, he takes a new flat and lives a life of isolation where he can satisfy his need for flesh. Repulsed by his own violent behaviour, he takes a series of victims, eats them, and disposes of their remains as best he can. As his illness progresses he becomes weaker and more disorientated. His girlfriend Sarah is shattered by his vanishing, but slowly rebuilds her life with the support of friends. Mark is obsessed with Sarah and determined to see her again. He anaesthetises and kidnaps her, taking her back to his new flat. He starts to hallucinate and aware of his own volatile condition, returns her safely to live her new life. He is getting weaker, and after dragging the body of one of his victims, his leg breaks. Unable to seek medical help he screws a metal plate onto the side of his broken leg. The boundaries between reality and his increasingly disturbing hallucinations become more blurred. The flesh on his face is starting to ulcerate. He can no longer leave the flat. While masturbating, his decaying penis falls off in his hand. All that remains is to attempt as dignified a death as possible.

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'. . . we're all scared of flying but we lull ourselves in to a false sense of security . . . it becomes like a video game, it's unreal, it's not really the ground, it's not really the wind, you're suspended in space and immortal.' Welcome to the world of aerobatics.

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Laurie, a young journalist, has a crush on Sean, a photographer. He doesn't know she exists. Laurie seizes the opportunity to go on a job with him to interview an artist, Sheena Tyson. Unfortunately, she hasn't done her homework on Sheena or her explicit artwork.

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La Muette housing estate in Drancy, outskirt of Paris: today houses people on low incomes, yesterday interned a total of 67,000 Jews on their way to death camps. If The Walls Could Speak is a documentary which traces the history of this building and brings the past into the present in a dynamic, contemporary way.

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The Amber Room was one of the world's greatest cultural treasures, until the Nazis invaded Russia in 1941 and ripped it from the walls of Catherine Palace. The secret of its fate has been kept for over fifty years. The documentary focuses on the relationship between art and war and encounters some of the people who have become obsessed with revealing the dark secrets of the Amber Room.

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In his private battle with insomnia and the elements, Harry's paranoid mind begins to play cruel and vivid tricks. A chaotic tale of noise and neurosis and it's deadly consequences.

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A story of one boy's alienation from the pack. Should he stick with the others? Or can being an outsider make it easier to be truly yourself?

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Jacob Two Two is 2+2+2 years old, the youngest of five he has to say everything twice to get himself heard. Desperate to be taken seriously, when Dad needs groceries Jacob bravely volunteers to go and buy them; so embarking on his first solo mission. The quest goes horribly wrong when Jacob loses his nerve and runs off - straight into a ten-pound hanging salami. He wakes up to find himself in court charged with the terrible crime of insulting a grown up. The Singing Judge, Rough Justice, sentences Jacob to Slimer's Island Children's Prison, presided over by none other than the gruesome Hooded Fang! But help is on its way in the form of the heroic Child Power Masters. Escorted by the Fang's henchman, Miss Fowl and Mr Fish, Jacob arrives at the fog-bound, crocodile infested prison guarded by the Slimers where he meets the fearsome Hooded Fang. When the Child Power Masters fail to show on time (as usual) Jacob Two Two hatches a cunning plan and decides to take on the Hooded Fang himself! Will he out-wit Fish and Fowl and the evil Slimers or will it be the Child Power Masters who save the day? All will be revealed in George Bloomfield's hilarious rendition of Mordecai Richler's classic childrens adventure, Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang.

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She has dreams of reading the news on Iranian television. She is fascinated by bollards. She has an agoraphobic mother. She is incapable of doing anything normally. She goes to London to work as a temp and ends up involved in industrial espionage. She brings a company to its knees and then saves it from destruction. Janice Beard: Genius or idiot?

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Joint Venture is the story of Edith a 75 year old woman and Angel, a young biker girl. They meet by chance when Edith is at an all-time low as her husband has a terminal illness. She is desperate. Angel is the one who helps her.

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It's 1964 and The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are storming the charts all over the world. But, behind them, thousands of young groups like Julie And The Cadillacs are still fighting for success. London PR man Adam Schneider and his partner Phil Green sign the group to a management contract and promise to make them stars. They move to London, where they meet lots of other music people, and Julie falls in love with songwriter Mike Williams. It all goes wrong for the band when their first release flops, and Julie turns down Adam Schneider's amorous advances. He is furious and vows that she will never work in the record industry again. The band is disheartened and penniless. Mike walks out after a row and the Cadillacs go back to Liverpool. Julie stays on in London, working as a waitress in the Rivoli Restaurant. Ten months later, Adam Schneider's former secretary Babs comes into the restaurant and spots Julie. She offers to try and get her work as a session singer making radio jingles. In the recording studio a few weeks later Julie is reunited with Mike. Babs get their record away to Holland and the offers start flooding in.