Projects in genres: LGBTQIA+

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David in a state of cocaine binge, believes that he has arranged a casual ‘hook-up’, only to realise that things are not as they seem when the stranger arrives… An experimental film that travels freely between past and present, and reality and illusion, raising questions about sexuality, religion and mortality.

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Cal returns to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill in hospital. His finds that his home city is like many across Europe and the world, it's facing hard economic times and fallout from the global economic crisis, rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence as youth unemployment inexorably rises. His Auntie Jane, who has taken up residence in their run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually gratify herself by trying to seduce him. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his helps. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible.

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A boy wants to be a comedian but his father, a judge, is unintentionally his worst audience. He sentences himself to step into his son's shoes but they're secret shoes. A dirty sacrilegious film about comedy and love to scar your heart.

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The Documentary "Elephant In The Room" looks back over the last three decades of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its effect upon the Gay community here in the UK. The documentary has interviews with people affected by the virus and the organizations that were and are there to support them. The documentary looks at how these organizations roles have developed with the advancement of medications and what there role is today. There are also interviews with Sir Nick Partridge,OBE,CEO of The Terrence Higgins Trust, World renowned human rights campaigner and gay activist Peter Tatchell and co-founders of the trust Tony Calvert, Rupert Whitaker and Martyn Butler. The one thing that has not changed over the years is the continuing inadequate funding and, in most cases, the lack of education surrounding HIV/AIDS in schools. Why is this still the case? The documentary tries to find the answer.

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PINK: PAST & PRESENT is an award-winning feature length documentary film which explores the rich, vibrant and often turbulent history of Liverpool’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The film features authentic, personal and gripping stories from the 1950s to the present day.

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Ten days of mercy, introspection and forgiveness.

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Theo is on a quest. He finds among his mother’s belongings a Super-8 film, in which his dad looks really happy, and a little in love. Maybe a lot. But not with Theo’s mother. Theo never really knew his dad and now that his mum is also gone, he’s intrigued to find out who else there was in his father’s life. His quest leads him into the past, and to Switzerland, high up into a remote Alpine valley. There he finds George who has been living as a recluse for a decade. For George, Theo’s dad was the love of his life. As the two men meet and get to know each other, slowly their lives start to make sense...

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For some the world is not as simple as being pink or blue. Paul is the proud father of Charlie. But when he discovers that Charlie is secretly struggling with Gender Dysphoria (born the wrong gender) he begins his own struggle to discover what being a father really means.

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JJ is a Black Lesbian, she’s also a ‘Stud’. Together with her best friend, Seb a white gay pretty boy, they work as wedding photographers. Their clients are wide, weird and wonderful. JJ and Seb are both looking for love but in the wrong places. So, when JJ falls in love with the beautiful diva ‘Elle’, JJ and Seb’s friendship is tested for the first time as ‘JJ’ has to chose between her hot new lover and her best mate. London-set ‘Studlife’ is a sexy, young, cool, and gay British urban romance that pays homage to Spike Lee’s ‘She Gotta Have It’. ‘Studlife’ introduces you to a very different slice of British urban life.

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Three days in the life of four friends after which there's no going back. That moment in your life when everything changes forever. Liza (Kat Redstone) hovers precariously between change and self-destruction, between leaving her doomed relationship with girlfriend Sally and finding success with their band, Blanket. Sally (Sophie Anderson) works nights in a dead end job, clings to her fantasies of a better life and ignores the chaos all around her. Vin (Kai Brandon Ly) works as a rent boy, is secretly in love with Sally and in denial about everything else. Jamie (Collin Clay Chace) works nights in a gay cabaret bar, but longs to break free of his friends and their drug-infested dramas and settle down with a nice man. In the three days leading up to Liza's 25th birthday things finally come to a head between Liza and Sally. After a failed birthday dinner the four friends are plunged into emotional meltdown at an illegal rave and by the end of the night there’s no going back to how things were.

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The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-identity. Animated in a rotoscoped pixel-art style and using dialogue from Bradley’s online conversations, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation.

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Madhabilata is a personal film, a journey to touch the wave of silence between me and my biological mother. An intricate embroidery of desire, suffering, denial and ‘looking back’. A painful hide 'n' seek game between me and my mother, between 'real' and 'unreal','self' and 'other' .