Projects in categories: Fiction

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Joe and Olivia are childhood sweethearts, about to embark on their wedding day. But the so-called happiest day of their lives is over faster than they anticipated. Olivia doesn't quite make it up the aisle, and Joe is left jilted at the altar.





A decade later, Olivia and Joe are walking up the aisle again, but this time it's as bridesmaid and best man. They haven't seen each other for ten years and they've changed beyond all recognition. Olivia wears pleated skirts and designs multi-storey car-parks. Joe is older, wiser, sexier and married to the beautiful Spanish model, Mariana. But all is not as it seems, will first love get a second chance?

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The cautionary tale of a boy, his dog and somebody's liver... Up in her attic, a puppeteer carefully prepares Johnny - a lovable little character. She has him act out a drama for her and then takes relish in destroying him. A morbid little film - beautifully shot - involving greed, love, revenge, death and a liver.

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Karmic Mothers is a black comedy about two women - played by Siobhan Redmond and Molly Innes - who have tried to commit suicide and are recovering in hospital close to a maternity wing.

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Chained to his cot, wings confiscatd at birth, 'Ike' is a creature of the kitchen, half baby, half duck; but with every deranged dribble he comes closer to becoming more like the swan on the matchbox of his desire.

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Grant and Bonham-Carter star as a quirky 1930's couple with very modern ideas in an off-beat tale of love, poetry and garden plants. The romantic comedy, shot entirely on location around London, centres around the unconventional relationship between an eccentric budding poet and his long-suffering girlfriend. While Comstock strives to embrace poverty and his 'art', Rosemary works furiously (against all odds) to keep her career and their relationship on the rails. Their odd, but touching, romance revolves around Comstock's bizarre passion to escape that dreaded symbol of middle-class 'respectability' - the aspidistra.

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A fictional portrait based on the accounts of an ex-addict.





'Everything around about you blocks the feeling that you're good out. I can fit in here. I can steal. I can live that life. I can go and steal every day, go and take junk every day, it's easy 'cause I've done it for years. It's the stepping out of that and doing something different that's frightening'.

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Set in a world of bizarre colour and fashion, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is the story of one man's obsession with a beautiful new neighbour that leads to conspiracy and eventually murder. Richard is a science-fiction writer, who works from home. Gradually he becomes obsessed with his neighbour, a woman called Angelica. We see Richard moving from normal desire to becoming psychologically unbalanced when he begins to regulate his life to observe her comings and goings. He starts to photograph her; soon after he begins to follow her. Through deceit and lies, he manages to get close to her flatmate and through her to Angelica. Richard is utterly ruthless in the pursuit of his obsession, eventually leading to triple murder. A twisted and incredible tale of suburban madness and infatuation with the girl next door.

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La Mère Sauvage is an adaptation of the classic short story by Guy de Maupassant. It is a tale of love and revenge set in an unforgiving, wintry landscape in rural France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 -1871.

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England 1941, the glorious Dorset countryside. Three beautiful young women arrive on a remote farm. They are the Land Girls, city girls who have volunteered to take the place of young men who have gone to war.





Stella, Ag and Prue are to work for Mr and Mrs Lawrence and their rugged, good-looking son, Joe. They are an unlikely trio; Prue is vivacious and sexy, Ag is quiet and more reserved, while the dreamy, beautiful Stella is in love with Philip, a dashing naval officer.





Joe is engaged to Janet, his childhood sweetheart. This doesn't stop the spirited Prue wanting to seduce him, nor Joe's inability to deny her amorous approaches. But Prue tires of this illicit romance, preferring the glamour of the local airbase and its daring, heroic pilots. The other girls are at first shocked by Prue's candid flirtations but soon warm to her lively sense of fun, and the three become close friends.





At a local dance Ag falls in love, at first sight and for ever, with a Canadian airman who is about to leave for North Africa. Worried about her inexperience, Ag shyly approaches Joe and asks him, as a friend, to take her virginity so she will be better prepared to please her Canadian when he returns. Joe, with tenderness and touching humour, obliges.





Prue, meanwhile, has fallen utterly in love with Barry, a very handsome pilot from the airbase and she soon shocks her friends by quickly marrying him. Her happiness is shortlived when news comes that Barry has been shot down. The romantic Stella spends a decidedly unromantic weekend's leave with Philip. Although she agrees to marry him, she finds that their relationship isn't all that she dreamed it would be.....

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An experimental film which looks afresh at landscape using the medium to explore its space and time in ways other than the 'eye-view'. A sensual meditation that sets out to challenge perceptual habits without being drawn into the seductive trap of the picturesque.

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A very contemporary urban comedy thriller about a group of unemployed friends who never do much more than sweat the small stuff, arguing the merits of chocolate cake versus strawberry gateau and the correct name for a pork pie with an egg in the middle. The world barely exists outside the house they share. They have no money, just an empty fridge with labelled shelves. Then one night they are tempted by the golden opportunity to share £200,000 in exchange for a little hard graft and a touch of nerve, in a race against the clock. All they have to do is shut up for long enough to spring the cash from a safe that is fast sinking to a watery grave. What's more, they have to do it and get out before the hard men who own it arrive to claim their prize or wreak havoc if denied.

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We are seeing life through the eyes of a boy growing up within his own personal craziness. In a strange but original surround-ing, where everything has become so completely mad that only an imaginary hero can help him out of the chaos and guide him through life.