Projects in categories: Fiction

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Midway between the supernatural shenanigans of Halloween and the official pomp of Remembrance Day, 5th November is Bonfire Night in Britain. People go down to their local park to watch the fireworks and the burning of Guy Fawkes, executed for treason 400 years ago. Fire Festival takes a municipal Bonfire Night in Brixton, South London, as focus for a film about autumn, death and the spectacle of sacrifice.

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Matt Phlatt lives a normal humdrum life in urban Flatworld, a wet and windy city, alone with his fat cat Geoff and fish, Chips. After an accident at work, in which he receives a massive jolt of electromagnetic energy, a dangerous bank robber is released from a 1930s black and white film... his day can only get worse.

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A toe tappin' rock 'n' roll rebel meets horror from beyond the grave.

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London in the age of hi-tech communications, a group of people with the help of their bicycles, struggle to be quicker than any other - the pushbike couriers. Brice and Paul, two of these brave couriers, explain their job and their dreams. What do the other road users think? Watch and find out.

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You can't chase your losses when the stakes are raised to life. Three men play games at a derelict farmhouse with a tied up hostage they intend to execute. Nearby, a bunch of kids play their own version. The two groups look set to meet, but who's got the balls to finish the game.

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The film follows Nat, a confused young man of about twenty. He sets off from home, and his recently widowed mother, in a camper van that he and his father had been restoring. He is tricked into giving a lift to two ageing hippies, Jack and Abigail, to their home in Devon. The three grow closer as the journey continues and Nat's naiveté and fear of the future subside. He decides to stay for a few days and walks on to the beach, aware of his freedom.

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Friendly Voices tells of a psychiatrist's home visit to a patient. It contrasts their different social situations with their all too similar inner selves. Joan is a spinster in her early fifties, living in an upmarket Victorian flat. Alec is a fortyish schizophrenic who occasionally hears voices in his head.

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A story of two children who react with naive simple emotion to a situation imposed upon them by their father's secret.

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Get Real is the story of Steven Carter, an ordinary teenager from Basingstoke, Middle England, and his friends. Like most teenagers, they're desperate to fall in love: Steven's neighbour Linda with her driving instructor, his school friend Mark with Wendy, Wendy with Head Boy and all round dreamboat John, John's mate Kevin with Wendy's friend Jessica. But like most teenagers, they are pretty hopeless at it. Steven is in love too, but he knows it is impossible. It's just a dream. It'll never be real. Except it is. But there's a catch: Steven's lover won't acknowledge him in public.


Get Real is the comic tale of what happens when the dream becomes an unexpected reality, and forces Steven to choose between being himself and being in love.

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Getting Hurt tells the story of Charlie, a successful lawyer and family man, who has his life thrown into turmoil when he agrees to take on the case of suspected murderer, Bosco. Bosco can be detained for only 72 hours and, with insubstantial evidence to back police suspicions, he is unperturbed by his situation. The only service he requires of Charlie is to find a girl called Viola.





Charlie finds Viola in Guido's late night bar. She is profoundly beautiful. The next day, incapable of thinking about anything else, Charlie returns to Viola's flat. He finds out that she is married to Bosco, a photographer, whose pictures of Viola adorn every wall in the building. Viola describes Bosco as a pitiably obsessed lover and asks Charlie to save her. The two of them fall in love. Charlie also rapidly becoming obsessed with the beautiful Viola.





Bosco is set free and wants Viola, but Charlie is not prepared to give her up. In the midst of her lovers' frustrations, Viola retains a certain impassive distance. The more obsessed they become with her, the less she wants to know. In their torment, the two men try to destroy each other. Bosco breaks into Charlie's family home and holds Charlie's daughter at knife point. But when Charlie comes in, Bosco turns the blade on himself committing suicide in Charlie's arms. Charlie's family life is shattered beyond repair. Charlie hunts for Viola but all he receives is a short call from her. She's leaving him, he's too obsessive. Charlie, the pitiable lover, is left alone, the inheritor of Bosco's ruin.

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Girls' Night is an inspiring and poignant film from writer Kay Mellor, one of the most formidably talented writers in Britain today. Familiar to television viewers through her series Band of Gold and the TV movie Some Kind of Life, Kay has drawn on personal experience to tell the story of Dawn and Jackie.





The film focuses on how the lives of Dawn and Jackie are transformed when Dawn wins the jackpot at one of their regular Friday night bingo sessions. Their celebrations are cut short however when Jackie discovers that Dawn has a tumour and only a short time left to live.





Dawn decides against further treatment and is determined to enjoy the time she has left. Leaving startled families behind, the two women set off to fulfil a lifetime ambition and head off to Las Vegas.

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Meet the Cop, the Hitman, his Wife and her Lover - four characters, a bag of money, and an intricate double-cross played out in a sabotaged elevator. Together they are Going Down.