Projects in categories: Fiction

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Three heroines of nineteenth century Westcountry romantic novels escape from their author's imaginations and, after visiting modern Cornwall, themselves become inspired. But what will they create?

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A former dog juggling star of the music hall, made obsolete by the coming of cinema, has to face up to change and move on. In his way stands Arnold Hew, the talentless and manipulative star of the silver screen who has stolen his act and destroyed his confidence. Told in flash-back, the film charts the degradation of the dog juggler by the callous Hew and builds up to the night of their final confrontation on the stage of a crumbling music hall...

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Alun arrives in Glasgow to play a gig at The Edge, a comedy club run by would-be promoter Max T. Max T should be looking after Alun, but he already has his hands full trying to keep Sandy Cervo, his second cousin and business partner, from taking over the club. In a bid to sort out some 'poontang' for himself and Alun, Max invites Eva, a psychiatric nurse and her photographer friend Christina along to the gig.

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England, 1908. The bosoms of the upper middle class heave with repression and tightly strung corsets. Aunt Agnes is desparate to marry off her spoilt, virginal charge, Emily





She invites Cedric to visit. He is an intellectual who tends to lapse into Latin just for Kicks.





Enter George, a rough villager, sone of Eric, rabbit-breeder extraordinaire, who is proud that he and his family are scum. George saves Emily from drowing and when she sees his rippling unmentionables, love is definitely in the air - until she realises just how lower class he is.





This irreverent comedy moves from England to Italy and then to India, with all and sundry causing havoc on both continents!

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A film about the susceptibility of young males to ferocity, Stiletto focuses on 11 year old Conrad who is grappling with a dawning awareness of the adult world. Abandoned by his mother, Conrad's aunt intrudes on his life, turning his bedroom into an office for her growing mail order business. She sells stiletto heels in men's sizes. Unable to deal with his feelings, Conrad sets a trap and she discovers an undeserved fate.

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Stone Tears is about a little girl coming to terms with her father's death. He was fascinated by kites. She has inherited his passion to be closer to him. When a stranger invades her secluded world, she realises the only way to let go is by releasing the kite.

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If you have ever had a tenner on the winner of the Grand National then you may have experienced the gambling buzz. But if you've put your last £40,000 on Ajax to win the UEFA Cup, you've Stood For This Massive. This is a film about Harry Findlay, one of Britain's most notorious sports gamblers.

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This documentary follows a group of dance music DJ's called Desert Storm who have a long history of raising money for Workers Aid for Bosnia by asking for donations at illegal 'free parties' that they organise in Britain. In the past they have driven trucks full of aid to Bosnia but in January of 1996 they wanted to take their mobile sound system with them to celebrate the signing of the Dayton peace accord.

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An authentic, honest, illuminating, funny and explosive film, Strong Language is inspired by nineties youth culture. It uses a unique talking-heads style to tell a story of ordinary lives in an extraordinary place and time. Through a 'mock-umentary' type style of shooting, a narrator relates a night of terror that changes his life for ever. This is intercut with sixteen young people talking about their lives and experiences in London.


Topics range from Ecstacy, Aids and one night stands, to Britpop, racism, the police and all things affecting youth today. Strong Language combines entertaining and revealing insights with an unforgettable and unexpected chain of events.

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Stung is a dream-like poetic drama set in the Edwardian age about a woman confronting her own sexuality in a society bound by convention.

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Such a Long Journey is an intricately layered, wryly humorous novel set in Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over the fate of what was to become Bangladesh. A hard working bank clerk, Gustad Noble, is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter, Roshan, falls ill in spite of his and his wife's ministrations; his promising son defies reasonable voice amid the ongoing dramas of his habitually quarrelsome neighbours.


One day Gustad receives a letter from an old friend, now working for a CIA-like branch of Indira Gandhi's government asking him to help in what seems like a heroic mission. In his innocence, and with feelings of loyalty to his friend, Gustad uneasily agrees. He soon finds himself over his head and alone in his unwitting complicity as he is drawn deeper into a dangerous network of deception.


Gustad's quiet dignity, his sense of moral order, have luminous presence in the sometimes antique world of his friends and acquaintances including the medicine lady, Miss Kutpitia, who suggests elaborate medical spells; the lame and child-like Tehmul; Dinshawji, Gustad's bumptious co-worker and friend, whose flirtation with the new typist goes too far.


Compassionate, broad in its vision, and rich in details of character and place, this is a mature and rewarding saga that charts the journey of a moral heart in a turbulent world of change.

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Epic, elemental, passionate and tragic, Swept From The Sea is a romantic tale that pitches the mortality of man against the immortality of nature.





To the world, Amy Foster is a girl who never smiles, but beneath her passive exterior, there is hidden passion. Amy is a pagan spirit, a collector of gifts from the sea. Her world is irrevocably changed when the sea delivers the most beautiful and most impossible of gifts.





Yanko Gooral is an adventurer who has left his Ukrainian homeland in search of a new world - America. When Yanko is washed overboard by a murderous tempest he finds himself a stranger in hostile land. When he crosses the threshold into Amy's world, however, they form a bond too powerful to be broken by the hate and suspicion the ignorant masses of Cornwall rain down on them.





Based on the short story by Joseph Conrad, Swept From The Sea tells a powerful and vital story about the transformative power of love and the resiliency of the human heart.