Projects in categories: Fiction

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The moment of truth arrives for a young Glasgow man when he is forced to choose between the stark reality of becoming a debt collector and the honour code of his past life as a boxer.

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An animated drama-documentary about Tana, a child holocaust survivor who tells her story for the first time after fifty years and speaks about the reasons for her long silence. The use of mixed styles of animation enabled the film-makers to portray the little girl’s point of view and helps the audience identify with the central character.

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A Scottish fisherman tries not to repeat the mistakes made by his father. However, when forced to commit a crime for what he believes to be the right reasons, he finds himself the cause of a tragedy that has a sense of relentless inevitability.

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A vivid and enthralling account of one man's journey to love, sex and independence. Recounted with wry humour and poignancy, the story follows Brit, a young boy with brittle bones which restrict his growth, among his colourful Parsee family in Bombay. Eccentric anglophile Sera is undaunted by her son's condition, whereas Sam, his dashing father, struggles to come to terms with imperfection. Along with his unconventional sister Dolly, a true ally, Brit is at the centre of a host of vibrant characters. Based on his acclaimed autobiographical novel, Firdaus Kanga makes his acting debut as Brit.

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Skip Life is a compelling comedy drama following the Warmley family, rehoused by a privatised housing authority into a skip. With the arrival of authority employee Simon Pewsey and disgruntled local resident Patricia, the horror of the Warmley's predicament becomes painfully clear.

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What if one split second sent your life in two completely different directions?





Sliding Doors is a contemporary love story that follows one woman's life beyond that deciding moment - down two different paths.





Helen's destiny is about to be determined by the sliding doors of a London underground train. If she makes it aboard, her life takes on a new direction. If she's left standing on the platform, she has a whole different future to face.





In parallel stories, the movie follows Helen's life down both paths; in a tale that is by turns mysterious, romantic, dangerous, comedic - and utterly unpredictable.





We all have but one life to live. Helen gets two - at the same time.

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Arthur has spent 30 years working as a mechanic at the coal mine, but he's paid a high price; he is obsessed with washing. The film uses both high contrast black and white and colour imagery to explore how his job - and consequently the obsession that it has created - affects his social life and his relationships with his mistress and his wife.

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From Nashville, Washington and New York, to Dunkeld, Butterstone and the Isle of Lewis, this film tells the story of how the hugely successful American female country singer Kathy Mattea fell in love with the songs of the charismatic Scottish singer-songwriter Dougie Maclean, and how they influenced the development of each others' music.

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The Manhattan Brothers wrote and sang 'Township Jazz' music during 1940s and 50s in South Africa. With over 150 hits, they sold millions of records, but their record company, Gallo Records, paid them using petty cash vouchers and hardly anything in royalties. Exiled from South Africa for almost thirty years, Joe Mogotsi now returns to find out if, in the 'new' South Africa, past injustices will be redressed.

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By the side of a road somewhere in the North of England, Sammy stands and waits for the arrival of childhood friends Billy and Ruby. It is twenty years since they all first met, when Sammy was taken by social workers to join an isolated children's home on the dramatic Northumbrian coast. As Sammy gets into Billy and Ruby's car it is immediately clear that, despite the fact that Ruby is recently pregnant, there is violent tension between them and that there is a psychological significance to the mysterious journey that Billy is taking them on.


As the journey progresses, we travel back to the past of their childhood when Sammy, shy and vulnerable and unable to read, joins the home. Billy, confident and charismatic, befriends and guides him through the trials of life in the home and protects him from the violent attentions of the resident bully, Bernie. As Sammy grows in confidence, Billy encourages a romantic attachment with his old girlfriend, the flame-haired Ruby. Using his emotional power over his friends, Billy establishes a ménage a trois that sets them apart from other children in the home. This power is threatened when, in a dramatic incident, Billy tries to defend Sammy from Bernie and gets savagely beaten. The resulting act of revenge is one which will inextricably bind the three friends through the intervening years until the pressure of the past and present combine to force an inevitable resolution.

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A story of humour, energy and friendship, Spindrift chronicles a day in the life of two Soho drifters who work as rent boys. Combining documentary style material with expressionistic sequences, the film builds up a series of snapshots which encapsulate the boys' desire for freedom and love.

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A story of humour, energy and friendship, Spindrift chronicles a day in the life of two Soho drifters who work as rent boys. Combining documentary style material with expressionistic sequences, the film builds up a series of snapshots which encapsulate the boys' desire for freedom and love.