Projects in categories: Fiction

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A funny and moving story of family rivalries and loyalties. After the death of their mother, a group of siblings go missing through the night in Glasgow. As a violent storm tears through the city, the brothers and their sister are torn apart during a long, dark night full of mishaps and misunderstandings. Each must find their own way to come to terms with their grief through 24 hours of emotional and meteorological turbulence. As the city emerges from the storm, battered and bruised, so too must the family emerge and unite to mourn at their mother's funeral service.

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OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a story of fate and chance in which the throw of a dice or the fall of a card can affect many lives. It is also the extraordinary love story of two orphans from opposite sides of the world. Both are gamblers but also innocents who gain experience, with difficulty and with joy, in the colourful times of the mid-nineteenth century.

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Amanda, an undergraduate studying French, is woken one night by a stranger breaking into her attic bedsit. From this unpromising meeting a passionate love affair develops between her and the enigmatic intruder, Mike. It's a liaison dangereuse: Amanda, a fantasist besotted with Baudelaire and nouvelle vague cinema; Mike, tough but sensitive, into more earthy pleasures. As her bedsit fills up with Mike's plunder, Amanda soon suspects her mysterious boyfriend has more to hide than stolen goods.

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A comedy. A dying photographer seeks revenge on those who harmed him during his life.

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Peaches inhabits an imaginary dystopian city. She dreams of no longer being a creature entangled by the desire of others. Gradually, her dreams become fused with her waking moments. But will Peaches' desire for transformation be tolerated by the society in which she lives?

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Personal Effects examines a child's experience of grief following the death of her mother. Mourning is complex, contradictory, often silent, but always painful.

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Pervirella is a dreamlike vision of a mythical age, combining opulent full-size sets, weird and wonderful miniatures, model animation and extravagant costumes. Pervirella is a classic comic book character based on Modesty Blaise, Barbarella and Penelope Pitstop: beautiful yet deadly. Growing into a voluptuous damsel from a baby within seconds, Pervirella's childlike innocence plays host to a lustful, deceitful sex demon of incredible powers! Powers coveted by the evil Cult of Perv and the plant sorcerers of Amazonia! Powers only held in check by an ancient amulet with a rather loose clasp! Powers which could corrupt her soul and plunge the world into turmoil! We follow the erratic progress of a group of oddball adventurers as they fight their way across strange continents in even stranger vehicles. They flirt with danger all the way, in a desperate romp to save the luscious Pervirella!

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A short horror film with a sting in its 'tale'. When a mischievous boy steals an enchanted box of performing insects, a wise old man teaches him a lesson in 'pest control'.

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This period action adventure movie tells the story of two of England's most feared highwaymen, who embarked on a high-stakes crime spree which terrorised aristocratic London in the eighteenth century.

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Violently arrested and thrown in jail, Bryan narrates his bizarre life story from the confines of his prison cell. Some kids suck their thumbs or stroke a comforter; this four year old Bryan, however, was into pockets... Spoiled by his parents, his curious obsession leads to an unnatural infatuation with other people's pockets. That's when the trouble really began.   Watch on BBC Film Network

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A cut and paste musical film recording. Roxanne is obsessed with Nick the popstar. This is an excursion into an obsessive mind; a portrait of an imagination in overdrive; a memory saturated with desire; a fantasy fuelled by paranoia and jealousy. Popstar Junkie represents a distorted internal world highlighted by a scientific soundscape of lo-fi atmospheres, soundbites, hip hop breaks and bass arranged by Patrick Carpenter.

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Behind every face lies a story. Bobby, Sumi and TJ draw people's portraits in Leicester Square. What do they think about while they sit and wait for customers all day in this busy place? Where did they come from? Why are they there? The filmmaker explores themes of migration, memory and loss by drawing her own portrait of their lives.