Projects in categories: Fiction

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The famous operatic duo of Gilbert and Sullivan were famously incompatible. Gilbert was as bombastic and confrontational as Sullivan was affable and debonair. The new film from internationally renowned director and Oscar-nominee Mike Leigh paints a vibrant picture of their lives and offers a unique evocation of Victorian London.

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Trailblazers takes the viewer on a series of intrepid journeys, visiting locations with presenters. The journeys take us to some of the world's most pristine environments, which by their nature, are adventures. All have a specific goal in view eg: to swim with the whale sharks, to visit a lost Peruvian City.

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Two Bad Mice is centred around Kay, a guy with two sides (one white the other black) and his attempts to find a gun, eliminate his enemies, dispose of a corpse, come to terms with himself and fall in love. All in the space of a day. Two Bad Mice is a revelatory experience, a journey through The Self.


The film takes place in South East London, a place of multiple realities/identities/cultures and histories, where absurdity, nonsense and unreality meet in dark threatening shadows. A clever, stylish, colourful, high-octane, character-driven movie that flips between realism and surrealism, melodrama and comedy.

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Two young footballers on their first European tour are sent home for misbehaviour. The train journey convinces them they have nothing left to lose.

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Big Ben. Buckingham Palace. Trafalgar Square. St Paul's Cathedral. Piccadilly Circus. The London that the world knows.





But there is another side to London that remains unknown to the tourists, that emerges only at night, that comes alive in ageing terraced houses and sprawling estates.





It is a world of pills of dubious origin swallowed hurriedly and hopefully, of music with a thumping beat that you'll still hear when you wake up the morning after, of Rizla papers bought from an all-night garage, of bottles of mineral water shared as love tokens, of greasy kebabs eaten when the tastebuds have long since numbed, of sunrises viewed through stinging eyes.





It is close to heaven, but it is very close to hell.





For Rat, a fifteen year-old drug dealer, it is the only world he knows.





Over one night Rat's world turns upside down as he finds himself on the run from older, far more serious criminals. We follow Rat as he looks for shelter with those he thinks he can trust. As each door closes on him, the likelihood of ever seeing the light of day again grows smaller.

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One man's battle to bring order to chaos; a story of the cyclic nature and the inevitability of life. Even with the right tools for the job - he is faced with a daunting task, random and unpredictable, things aren't as simple as they first seem . . .

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Failing artist Michael is inspired to madness by the gift of Van Gogh's ear, pickled in a jam jar.

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1971: Glam rock explodes on the world, challenging the sincerity and machismo of the flower generation with glitter and savage sounds - thrilling and shocking the world.





At the centre is Brian Slade. Turning mods and rockers on their heads, he takes the UK by storm, inspiring countless teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their sexuality. Slade finally devours himself. Unable to escape the persona he has created, he stages a fake assassination. When his fans find out, his star falls into oblivion and Brian disappears.





1984: In an Orwellian landscape of surveillance and control, repressive politics and arena rock rule the world. 'Redeem America' preaches the President, while the airwaves belong to corporate rock-God Tommy Stone.





Arthur, an imported Brit who works for a New York daily, is charged by his editors with writing an anniversary article on Brian Slade's staged assassination. As a boy, growing up in Manchester, Arthur had been more than a fan of Slade's. He reluctantly takes on his assignment and begins to investigate his fallen lipsticked-idol.





Velvet Goldmine explores the rise and fall of Brian Slade through Arthur's investigation. Arthur begins to focus on complicated relationships Brian has with his wife Mandy and his American inspiration, rock-star Curt Wild. Arthur finds Mandy working in a decrepit cabaret and pulls her back into the music scene of the early '70s. She reluctantly gives her narrative of Brian's life: Brian's tortured rise, his obsession with Curt Wild, his love and betrayal of Mandy, and his eventual fall. Mandy's story leads Arthur to Curt - and finally to Brian himself.

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A 'Vinyl Junkie', with a habit for 70's funk, finds a rare LP in a thrift store. The bargain of the century, if only he hadn't given his last change to a busker.


All he needs to do is raise fifty pence on the streets of Brighton. Easy!!??

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Colin flies remote controlled model airplanes and plods away as a housing benefit assessment officer for the local council. A confirmed failure in all romantic matters, woefully under the thumb of his elderly mother, Colin's latent passions are suddenly set ablaze when the gorgeous Denise appears on the scene. Except that Denise has sinister and evil plans for the unsuspecting and innocent Colin which draws him into a web of sexual intrigue, bizarre experiences and an exotic murder plot.

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A father is taken on a subconscious journey by a mysterious white owl.

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Rosie and Vincent are desperately trying for a baby. But now that their passion has a purpose, and their attempts repeatedly fail, the strain on their relationship is beginning to show. When Benoit, a French postal worker and Rosie's teenage pen pal, arrives on their doorstep, Rosie is delighted but for Vincent the visitor is one delivery he definitely doesn't want. Benoit, who arrives with romantic notions about Rosie, is taken aback to learn that she is now married, and settles in as her houseguest. But Vincent is unhappy with this arrangement and finds himself tempted by his old flame Cathy, the local hairdresser. Both Rosie and Vincent find themselves facing choices they had never imagined they would have to make. Will they stay together for richer or poorer, or trade in their love of old for something new.