Projects in categories: Fiction

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NIGHTRIDE is a dryly humorous realtime one shot thriller set on the midnight streets of Belfast. It places us in the driver’s seat with smalltime dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.

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Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier do what they must to survive the cosmic elements and each other. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2021 - Online World premiere

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Running from grief after the mysterious death of his wife, Eric Black takes a job as a shepherd. Trapped alone on a majestic weather-beaten island with an ominous secret. One man's sudden, spiralling madness meets a vengeful supernatural force. What starts as the perfect wind-swept escape becomes a race to save his sanity and his life. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021

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Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival - Gala Presentations - World premiere

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Creative exploration and amplification of covid-19 pandemic as experienced through the eyes of Signkid, a deaf-rapper in London. This musical short film creatively explores the ‘silent world’ that has intensified and deepened for D/deaf people in the course of the COVID pandemic.

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A gay man confronts his belly fat in a shop changing room, triggering him to relive an abusive past relationship. Who can save him from his own body? Official Selection FilmOut San Diego 2022

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During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021 - In Competition - World premiere Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021 Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Special Events

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Be yourself. Valentine takes terrible advice from his fuccboi roommate to use dating apps to find "the one" Val navigates meaningless one night stands and superficial relationships on social media apps to find love at first swipe.

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King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021 - Out of Competition - World premiere

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Having retired to bed early to prepare for a dawn ascent, Kelly is woken by the screams of her co-climber Sophie, who had stayed up to enjoy a smoke with a group of men they had met earlier. Desperate to get to her friend, Kelly runs deep into the forest using the night vision from her camera to guide the way. She arrives just in time to see Sophie’s lifeless body being thrown from a ledge, a horror she captures on camera. As she turns to leave, the men hear Kelly below and give chase. Running through their camp, she desperately grabs whatever climbing gear she can and begins free-climbing the foot of the mountain in order to escape the pack. As day turn to freezing night, she finds herself both mentally and physically exhausted. But there is nothing she can do. If she’s to escape this deadly game of cat & mouse she must dig deep, do all she can to survive, and climb...

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Heartbroken, grieving, and tormented by visions of his hero's death, Mickey Sharpe finds himself stuck in the middle of two opposing gangs as he tries desperately to finish the exposing documentary his best friend died trying to finish. Behind the antics and actions played out between our four main friends and the gangsters and criminals they encounter along the way, is a suggestion of the difficulties and questions that young adults face today in work, in love, and in preparing for life in the future. The prospect of being able to afford to raise a family, of owning one's own home, or even getting a job with a half-decent salary to start with looks vanishingly small these days - Perhaps crime appears to offer a more achievable route to affording such basic ideals... This is a poignant look at some of the challenges and dilemmas that our modern society has created for the younger generations. Are we making a brighter future for our children or are we actually making life tougher?

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THE OUT follows Liam, a thirty-five-year-old recovering heroin addict, as he looks after his young daughter for the first time since being out of prison and getting clean. These 24 hours see Liam piecing together the fragments of his life after prison and his complicated journey to recovery. Nominated, Best Short Film, British Short Film Awards (UK, 2022) London Short Film Festival, Official Selection (UK, 2023) Little Wing Film Festival, Winner, Best Director (UK, 2022) Indy Shorts International Film Festival, Official Selection (USA, 2022) Bolton International Film Festival, Official Selection (UK, 2022) Kerry International Film Festival, Official Selection (Republic of Ireland, 2022)