Projects in genres: Action

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An over-crowded bus in rush-hour is no-one's idea of fun, but that's just the beginning of Gaz's problems. With phone abuse at a high, he finds it increasingly difficult to keep it together. But it shouldn't be too long. If he can just hold on a little longer - Too late!

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Double-crossing Rich is abducted in the middle of the night by Tommy. He's taken to a deserted scrap yard and locked in the boot of a car destined to be crushed. Rescued by Ol' Duke, the two share a drink, then Rich slowly realises that something is horribly wrong.

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Five students fall in with a murderer while hill trekking.

Isla, a university undergraduate, escapes to the hills for a few days before her finals. Meeting up with fellow students Pearl, Stephan, Tamara and Rory at a hillside bothy, they encounter loner Brendan crossing the hills on his mountain bike. Isla senses that there is something strange about Brendan, but the others dismiss her fears.
The following morning, Stephan, Tamara and Rory go on ahead. Pearl, recovering from a hangover, is lectured by Isla about her lifestyle while Brendan stalks them, then bikes on ahead to stalk the other three. When Rory injures his ankle, Brendan offers to take him back to the main road on the back of his bike. Rory accepts, and when Brendan coldly murders him a little later, we know that the others are destined to suffer the same fate.

A story about how a group of students, living in an academic bubble, can be so trusting that they make murder easy for a psychopath.

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Former boxer Tom is on the ropes. His promising fight career is long over, thanks to an eye injury, his marriage is on the rocks and he's broke. When a chance encounter at the gym leads to the offer of work as a doorman at a run-down nightclub, the jury is out on whether he has taken a step on the road to redemption or has finally hit the self-destruct button.

The volatile head doorman Paul (knuckle-duster ever at the ready) is a battle-hardened veteran from the old school. Recognising Tom for the fighter that he once was, Paul takes him under his wing and guides him through the ins and outs of life as a club land 'peacekeeper'. Tom does his best to fit in and play the hard man, but soon strikes up a friendship with Mary, the world-weary head barmaid, who recognises something more than the norm in the down-on-his-luck fighter. Unfortunately for them, dealing with a smack on the nose and a drunk with a broken bottle is nothing for Tom compared to his inadequacy at dealing with a broken heart. The personal baggage of losing his wife due to his impotency is a secret he will keep bottled up at all costs. Tom soon finds out he has entered a world of trouble when Chongi, the head of the biggest, most ambitious security firm, has a score to settle with Paul, and stakes an interest in the down-at-heel club. As the tension escalates, Tom is soon forced to question his new loyalties, and whether he really has lost the bottle for a fight.

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Once upon a time in a place not far away
Lived a lovely little girl, whose name was Emily
But the good times and the smiles will be over soon
For a chainsaw and a witch, she'll meet beneath the moon
Add a cruel twist of fate that will kill tranquillity
And how it unfolds, you have to watch and see.

A unique modern adaptation of an ancient Russian fairytale, using striking 3D computer imagery.

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Endgame is a dark thriller set in contemporary Belfast. Martin, a kindly school teacher, becomes unwittingly involved in a paramilitary street gun battle. A bold and terrifying escape ends in failure, and Martin is captured and interrogated. As time runs out, his survival hinges on a matter of identity.
 

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A teacher and her lover are trapped in an old school. A deformed member of staff killed herself there many years ago and they soon find themselves desperate to escape.
 

 
 
 

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Based on the true story of A R Cikatilo, also known as the Monster of Rostov. A R Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell) is a serial killer who killed and ate more than 50 children in the old Soviet Republic. Lesiev (Marton Csokas) is the detective who tracks down and catches him.

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In an unknown foreign city, a young woman, Anna, is thrown onto the street, her mind full of pain and with no memory of who she is. A few miles away a man, Morgan, wakes in a cold dirty river. He also has no memory of who or where he is.

The two walk the streets, helpless and alone, trying to make sense of what is happening to them from the jumble of strange faces and voices that speak to them. Driven by nightmarish visions and attacks by hostile shadowy figures, they are suddenly thrown together when Anna is taken over by the intense pain in her head and, out of control, she unknowingly kills a man. Attempting to escape the city together and with no one else to help them they are forced to trust each other. Trust turns to something deeper, and the two feel a strong connection. A strong powerful bond, as if they already know each other.

Unknown to them, their every action is being guided and manipulated by unseen forces operating from deep within the underground of the city. Anna has been implanted with a chip that is programmed to kill. Morgan is her target. Originally kidnapped from England and their memories wiped, Anna and Morgan are actually husband and wife, and now that bond is being put to the test in a deadly experiment.

As the terrible conclusion to the experiment races closer there is a shocking secret still to be revealed. There is no escape in this dark and terrifying psychological thriller.
 

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A stylish thriller. Rome 1948. Orson Welles arrives in Rome to star in a movie. His career is on the slide and his heart is broken from divorcing Rita Hayworth. Then a bit part actor dies on set in Orson's arms, muttering his last words into his ears. While the police try to cover it up as suicide, Orson is convinced otherwise.

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An actress turns up at a fan's home, shoeless and distressed. As he tries to get her signature she disappears, only to reappear moments later with no recollection of what just happened.

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Created in-camera this mixed media animated adventure combines live action, found objects with photo cut-outs that are weaved into a non-linear narrative and manipulated into a dark story of romance and psychological tension that unfolds into a cinematic world never seen before.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2006 - Short Film Competition - Nomination - Palme d'Or
BAFTA Film Awards 2006 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation
British Animation Awards (BAA) 2008 – Nomination - Best Animated Short