Projects in categories: Fiction

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Andy and Rachel are a young couple of artists who are heavily in debt to their drug supplier. After a long weekend of partying, Rachel finds two men on her doorstep. Unsure of their identity, she lets them inside and soon realises her mistake.

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The tragi-comic tale of Flossy the candy floss girl who loses her heart to Luke the Waltzer boy in the fairground. But Bert, the embittered Arcade owner, is set to smash her dreams and prove that like candy floss, love disappears as soon as you bite into it.

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Captain Jack is the true story of irascible and irresistable Captain Jack, a Whitby sailor with antipathy for authority, appeal to the ladies and a deep love and respect for his predecessor Captain Scoresby, who sailed from Whitby to the Arctic in 1791. For Captain Jack, Scoresby is Whitby's true hero. Not Captain Cook whose statue stands overlooking the town. The two hundredth anniversary of Scoresby's first trip to the Arctic is coming up. Jack resolves to follow him there and place a plaque.





But before he can assemble a crew or provisions, he finds himself and his beloved schooner, The Yorkshire Lass, forbidden to go to sea. In spite of (or because of?) the Captain's protestations, Inspector Lancing of the Department of Transport finds the vessel unseaworthy and ties her up in red tape.





This doesn't stand in Jack's way, and neither does the motley crew he finally assembles, in the persons of Phoebe and Eunice, two elderly warring sisters; Emmett, a hen-pecked unemployed holiday maker; Andy, the Australian hiker and Tessa, the local lass who stows away to be with Andy - the man of her dreams.





The Captain has everything he needs. With his old friend Barbara running communications from the local caravan park and the fishing fleet to escort The Yorkshire Lass out of the harbour, right under the harbourmaster's nose, the adventure begins.

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Catching Fire is a tragic but inspiring love story based loosely on the intense and passionate relationship between Jean Vigo, a young filmmaker, and his wife Lydu.





Set in the early 1930's, Jean and Lydu met at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Pyrenees. The love that develops between them becomes a liberating force enabling them to confront their illness, live for the moment, challenge the odds and embrace life in the face of great adversity.

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When a bet goes wrong, a young man must charm a snake to win back his most treasured possession.

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Cider Punks, a model animation, brings a humorous insight to the frantic Belfast-based life of Becky Donduffin, 17, and her circle of friends who share a passion for nihilism, protest, body piercing and army surplus clothing. The preponderance of peer-pressure and escapism in the teenagers' lives are clearly the main themes in this 'mockumentary', which reflects on the issues in a witty, yet thought-provoking way.

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Clingfilm - a man and a woman, bound together in an unusual tale of compassion and friendship. The film tells the story of Annie, a happily married mother of three who cleans for the Reverend Archie McClure - but that's not all. She is his confidante and closest friend - the only person in the world he can trust with his darkest desires...

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Colour Blind charts the family passions and problems which come to the surface after Bridget McQueen arrives home with a black husband and the growing years of the couple's mixed race daughter, Rose Angela, during the period after the First World War in South Shields. The story, initially told in flashback, then follows the experiences of the adult Rose Angela as she fights to establish her own place in the world.

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Four men descend on a northern night club. It is only a matter of time before they make the inevitable move.

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When Saul arrives home to find his girlfriend making love to a complete stranger, he nearly gives up all hope of understanding women. Until he meets a neurotic Eastern European woman who claims to be an angel; with her help Saul may have one last chance...

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Cottage Cheese is a glimpse into the world of cottaging. While procuring sex in public toilets was almost the only choice for gay men in the 1950s, this aspect of gay culture has remained remarkably widespread through the years of liberation and the pink pound. Cottage Cheese features interviews with people who go cottaging, including a married man and someone who has been caught and prosecuted.

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Cottage Cheese is a glimpse into the world of cottaging. While procuring sex in public toilets was almost the only choice for gay men in the 1950s, this aspect of gay culture has remained remarkably widespread through the years of liberation and the pink pound. Cottage Cheese features interviews with people who go cottaging, including a married man and someone who has been caught and prosecuted.