Projects in categories: Fiction

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The first and last encompassing view of the Three Gorges area before it is changed irrevocably, flooded by the building of the Three Gorges Dam in the heart of China. No area of China represents more emotional or historical importance to its people for it was in these gorges and mountains that Chinese life began.

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A young boy stands in two worlds - that of his home - the 1960s Scottish west coast, and that of his comic book cowboy hero Mac, the American Wild West.

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Danny Mitchell, a Catholic school student in working class West Belfast, longs for a better life. Danny who dreams of becoming the greatest soccer player in Ireland, if he improves his rhythm. Thinking he could emulate his athletic heroes Pele and Carlos Riga of Belfast United, he sets his sights on learning the Samba. Little does he know that his weekly lessons are going to completely change his life, causing him to collide with an unexpected hurdle.

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Every woman wants to be wanted . . . just not by the entire Metropolitan Police Force. Maddy's first day out with her newborn takes a Kafkaesque turn when she's arrested in Harrods for shoplifting. If this is a miscarriage of justice, then detaining her in Holloway Prison's Mother and Baby Unit is the pits. Panicked at the thought of enforced adoption, she smuggles Jack to freedom in her friend Gillian's handbag - a woman with the maternal instincts of a guppy fish. Finding herself a runner-up in the Human Race, the only person Maddy can turn to is her hot-to-trot ex-lover Alex . . . who proves himself as useful as a solar-powered vibrator on a rainy day. The trouble with Alex is his sex appeal - he gives generously. Will Maddy ever escape the evil clutches of Edwina Phelps, prison psychotherapist? With the emphasis on physcho. Will she ever see Alex for what he is: a self-made man . . . who worships his creator? When will Alex realise that a 'paternity suit' is not the latest look in men's wear? How do you brief a lawyer with a heat seeking penis which does not report to mission control? And why the hell is Gillian searching for a sperm happy to get egg all over its face? There's hard knocks and rude shocks in this devastatingly witty screenplay. You'll split your episiotomy stitches laughing.

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Janet, tired of the usual sharks and eels, wonders if dating a Gynaecologist would provide the best sex life in the world? Or would a Nuclear Physicist give her the ultimate bang she's been looking for? Revealed are the surprising fantasies of a geordie lass in this fast-paced comedy.

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Jane Austen's novel, Mansfield Park, is combined with some of her comically surreal teenage writings, her letters and various biographical and historical details to construct the passionate story of a decadent, aristocratic family as seen through the eyes of one of their playthings: a young cousin, Fanny Price, dropped into their midst but always reminded she will never be their class equal. When a highly desirable and well-established young man, Henry Crawford, seeks her hand in marriage, the family is overjoyed. But she refuses him and is consequently sent back to her achingly poor and overcrowded "home" in Portsmouth. She longs for the one person who is forbidden to her: Edmund, the idealistic second son who has been her ally and soulmate since she first arrived at Mansfield Park as a little girl. But he is on the verge of marriage to Henry's teasingly enticing sister, Mary. Henry follows Fanny to Portsmouth. If she continues to refuse her wealthy and not unattractive suitor, she risks certain poverty and isolation. The ensuing ardent entanglements are played out against the subtle backdrop of the slave trade which we are reminded is "paying for the party" at Mansfield Park.

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For nine years, taxi driver Malcolm has been happily married to two women, Natalie and Norma. Dividing his time between taxi shifts and two wives keeps Malcolm a very busy man! One day Noddy Holder, pop singer, comes to town - the other guy whom both wives adore. By chance Natalie, a great costume designer, gets to design Noddy's stage outfit and Norma, a superb karaoke singer, gets to perform with Noddy on the big day. It seems Malcolm's little marital secret is about to be revealed. Each wife wants Malcolm to escort her to the show. Malcolm tries to avoid his fate, but every plan fails. In desperation he asks crazy Sam Tex for help. Sam's plan is to blow up the theatre before the event so there is no venue. In his haste to stop the bomb, Malcolm crashes his taxi. Escaping from hospital he rushes to the concert. Natalie and Norma both grab him - just as the bomb goes off. Everyone escapes - including Malcolm. Malcolm is chased by the police - and also by his two very angry wives. They close in at the Blackpool Tower. There is only one way out - up he goes. Where will it end?

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This film is a comedy following the unfortunate path of the rather obtuse character Mary Rose - a portly old lady blighted by a drawing pin which constantly manages to end up in the path of her large descending bottom each time she tries to take a rest.

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Hetty's baby is still born. Unable to grieve for this terrible loss, she takes off on the road, in a vain attempt to escape into drink, sex and speed.

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Milk is a quirky British Comedy about a family in mourning. The death of an 81 year old woman sets the scene for this tale about family funerals and the difficulty of burying one's mother. Or not to bury her, as the case may be. Adrian is an unmarried, unworldly and somewhat unstable dairy farmer, who hasn't had life work out the way he wanted. Despite the ambitions of his youth, he still finds himself at home, slopping after the dairy cows, still waiting for the lightning that never came. His cosmopolitan mother, Lucy, needed looking after in her self-enforced, bed-ridden seclusion - and the dairy farm needed a man. Until the morning she woke up dead! Set in the Wiltshire countryside, the action begins when Adrian discovers Lucy's body and ends with its offbeat disposal 48 hours later. In the meantime, Adrian's extended family piles into the dilapidated farmhouse to mourn her passing and to scramble over her loot. Much of the comedy springs from the intense selfishness that often overcomes people at such times, as if the dead person's love can be sequestered like property, as if Lucy's love could be possessed as easily as her favourite painting. Upon finding his mother dead, Adrian executes her pet parrot and confiscates her precious painting. Then Lucy's mourners arrive: her refined and reticent older daughter, Harriet, her clever and neglected younger daughter, Virginia, her elegant and greedy brother, Harry, her elderly and urban lover, John and finally her closest friend Veronica Price. They all want a piece of Lucy, they all have conflicting plans for her funeral and Adrian intends to confound them all on both counts.

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An experimental film depicting an introspective, emotional journey of a woman through separation, loss, initiation and return. For more information see: www.monomyth.com.

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A modern ghost story inspired by real-life events and ancient mythology. A mother cat takes supernatural revenge for the drowning of her kittens.