Projects in categories: Fiction

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Sanjay and Neetu are not too sure what to make of their two grandfathers. Their father's father - Grandpa Leicester - is a bit of a tyrant and completely westernised. He's always telling them off about their manners and the way they dress. So when they hear their other grandfather is coming from India to spend a month with the family, they fear the worst.

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A fly on the wall documentary following the exploits of first-time film makers as they experience what it's like making a feature film.

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A film about political exile. When a man, a writer from the former Yugoslavia, and a woman, an English translator, meet in London, past and present, memory and oblivion, silent hopelessness and open despair are tragically combined.

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Maria is found in a graveyard, covered in blood and with a human heart in a bag. She begins to tell the police what has happened...





Maria takes us back to an argument between Gary, a successful, working class business man, and his wife Tess, a television producer. Gary has followed Tess to a house where he believes she is sleeping with a writer, Alex. Fuelled by obsessive jealousy, Gary's repressed anger triggers a violent heart attack. He survives but is forced into a wheelchair. Tess takes the opportunity to start a sexually driven passionate affair with Alex.





A desperate Gary still wants to win Tess back and believes a heart transplant can save his marriage. Tragedy offers him hope when a 17 year old, Sean, is killed in a road accident caused by Nicola Farmer, high on cocaine. Sean's mother, Maria, agrees to allow his heart to be transplanted and Gary is the recipient. Tess walks away from the fantastic sex she is having with Alex to be with Gary.





As Gary regains his strength and tries to repair his marriage, Maria is left alone with her grief and her memories.





After confronting Alex and being humiliated at gunpoint, Gary goes looking for the source of the heart that is driving him and he traces Maria. Meeting Gary gives Maria's life meaning again. Gary takes all the information he needs but when he thinks he can walk out of her life Maria proves to be difficult. Tess tries to get rid of Maria but by now Gary trusts Maria more than he trusts Tess.





Desperate to confront Alex, Gary accidentally kills Tess, before murdering Alex and ending his own life.





A distraught Maria takes back Sean's heart from Gary and tries to return it to her son's grave. Caught by the police, she falsely confesses to murdering Gary, Tess and Alex.

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Early 1970's - Morocco.


A moving and original account of what it was like to be a child of the hippie generation. Love, peace, no father but a tough older sister and a beautiful young Mum - the story of Julia's love affair with another culture, as experienced with the clear-eyed vulnerability of her five-year-old daughter Lucy and her older sister Bea. This is the story of an extraordinary year in the life of a family. Julia decides that she has had enough of London and takes off for Morocco with her two little girls.


Lucy and her sister Bea are let loose in Marrakech. From the tourists to the beggars and entertainers in the market, their curiosity is endless. Julia is loving but distracted by money worries and seeking spiritual fulfillment. And then Bilal comes into their lives. The children observe Julia's love affair with a wonderful, magical man, with whom they all share a temporary Paradise. But this degree of freedom has its price and the stresses of their way of life start to be more than the children can bear. Bilal, feckless, charming and irresponsible as he is, understands their need and makes a heroic sacrifice on their behalf to raise enough money for their tickets home. Finally, Julia has to make the hard choice between her lover and her children.
 
Based on the novel 'Hideous Kinky' by Esther Freud.

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His 'n' Hers is a comedy in which a young couple have an escalating argument about the frequency of sex in their relationship. It all takes place on a sunny Sunday, starting with silence over the fried eggs, getting worse on their kite-flying expedition and ending with a big showdown under the full moon.

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Clare is going on a dream holiday. But who is going to look after her beautiful house and 'Baby' the dog whilst she is away?





She finds an ingenious solution ...

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A beautiful but hopeless fight against circumstance and the death of an American dream in a by-passed Welsh town. Three kids, forced to make up their own rules, are seduced by the possibility of something better. For what other choice is there when reality lets you down?





Set in the present day in Banwen, a two-bit town in the wilds of Wales' industrial south, House of America, centres around the Lewis family - Sid, Boyo and Gwenny - whose father Clem has apparently run away to America. Left in charge of their eccentric and mysterious mother - Mam - the kids yearn to escape to the States to visit their father, but the chance of them doing so is remote as there are no jobs for them in the small town.





Hope comes for the family in the guise of the Michigan Mining Company which is looking for labourers. But Mam is ever watchful and suspicious of the work they do on developing the open cast coal mine that looms above and behind the house, and is not happy at the prospect of her two boys working there. The pace accelerates further as Sid and Gwenny rebel against circumstance to escape from their surroundings. Their inventive fantasies absorb and take hold over reality and they become Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson in a mythical America - the energised heroes of their own making - leaving Boyo and Mam behind with the brutal truth. House of America roars along the open road, roof down, radio blaring, hell bent on heroism. Where it takes us is funny and sad at the same time, but an impossible dream is better than 'if only'...

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An English coastal town is the setting for a story of obsessive love when Martin returns to it following an eight year prison term. A young boy and his beautiful sister are drawn into Martin's pursuit of his former lover as he leads them on a dark and tense journey into the heart of desire.

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Jeff is in trouble. Images of a young woman haunt him and he can't shake himself free. Against the eerie landscape of the Cornish clay pits, his memories of an affair, a car crash and a terrible crime take their toll.

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M was a police informer. 'A few people got caught informing, were shot and dismembered .... the true consequences do sometimes come home!' Informer tells his story; he tells of crimes and set ups, the tensions and the paranoia which followed, and eventual escape to a new life and identity.

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Omar Sharif, the one Arab above all others who has bridged the cultural divide between the Middle East and the West, presents this independent television programme about the transformation of the United Arab Emirates from rags to riches. Judicious use of archive library material highlights the changes that have occurred in the society of the UAE over the 25 years of the federation. Local people, the Arab in the street, tell their own stories and give the programme a strong human interest.