Projects in genres: LGBTQIA+

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A casual encounter with a stranger brings our hero, Adam, to the attention of powerful, unseen forces. They take away his job as an IT teacher and follow his every move. Adam does not know it but the stranger he met in a bar planted evidence of an affair with a gay Royal. Forced to go on the run, Adam turns to the only two people he thinks he can trust: his disapproving father and a female reporter, Amy. Amy was Adam's teenage girlfriend, and he broke her heart when he told her he was gay. With few resources, and an increasingly desperate and murderous adversary, Adam has to dig deep and become a hero as he searches for the truth.  

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Terry is an average gay guy, searching for love, but hardly noticed in a looks and body orientated London gay scene. Coming home alone from a night of clubbing - again - Terry logs on to one of the many gay pick up sites available on the Internet. With nothing but sleazy men, timewasters and strange men on line, Terry almost gives up on meeting the man of his dreams until a magic website promises him otherwise. Suddenly given the powers to change his body to anything he describes himself as on-line, Terry starts to conjure up an array of gorgeous looks for himself. But as he embarks on a string of sexual encounters, Terry has to discover the hard way that beauty really is only skin deep.  

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Francis is an account of the creation of a 9-year-old 'defective' animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, his behaviour is observed and assessed by a child psychologist. The boy’s responses – initially slow and apparently flawed – develop in unusual comic directions as the examination progresses. As his vocalisations begin to address the nature of his animated world and the psychologist continues to try and interpret his actions, it appears that Francis may ‘break out’ once and for all and become a ‘real’ animated character. Francis playfully addresses notions of construction and the role that language plays in interpreting, classifying and creating certain types. In an animated world populated by impressionable idiot figures, mischief-makers and oddballs with strange vocal mannerisms, Francis puts the cute but simple cartoon character into therapy for a case study of 'animated behaviour'.

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Ann leads a conventional existence in a middle-class suburb, but one day a crossword clue makes her realise that she has lost her joy in life. This is the strange story of how she regains it and finds that life is more interesting, mysterious and sexy than she ever imagined.

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A neo-Nazi skinhead is apprehended because he has attacked two black teenage boys. As we are taken backwards through the story we realise that things may not be as 'Black and White' as they appear.   Watch on BBC Film Network.

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Using a dynamic mix of music, sound, poetry live action and animatd SFX this film celebrates the 'joys of loving one another only briefly'. The film takes the viewer on a lyrical and poetic journey through which we share the affectionate and passionate memories of a gay mans sexual encounters in a, now derelict, Kennington victorian toilet.

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Mel and Ash are two British Chinese gay men who studied together. After attending the funeral of Gavin, a closeted friend from their university days, they start examining the crow's feet on their faces and questioning the meaning of the labels in their wardrobes. Mel, an aging scene queen with the ego of Norma Desmond, believes life is a beauty pageant with him always the winner. He rejects the love of Todd, a provincial boy from the Welsh valleys who moves to London to be with him, in favour of quick-fix sex to fight his insecurities. But how long can he sashay down the catwalk when his eye bags are bigger than his Gucci bags? Ash is tired of the jaded gay scene where steroid bodies and the Atkin's diet are the only offerings on the menu. He meets Diane (a.k.a Dan) a transexual from their college days with a butch, sexy and straight looking ex army boyfriend, Ross. Ash decides the only way for him to find a real man is to cross dress. Will his foray into the wonderland of tranny burrows and tranny chasers bring him his dream man? With an underground drag club, sex in public toilet and an all male production of the Miss Pacific Rim Beauty Pageant, Cut Sleeve Boys is a quirky stir fried journey of self discovery and a makeover of the British Chinese gay experience.  

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Edie, an abused, off-centre transsexual, uses her video camera like a personal CCTV, recording the crimes and abuse perpetrated against her but it soon becomes a drug that only helps her avoid reality - so when someone tries to take it from her, there are tragic consequences. Can Edie ever stop pretending her life is all a movie?

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A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.

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A 16 year old boy, Leung, has a chance to win a wish; it's a wish he has to fight for. It is said that if one succeeds in catching a falling leaf in mid flight, then a wish will be granted. Two best friends, Leung and Will, both 16 years old, go to the woods to catch themselves a wish. Through this we see Leung's affection for his friend. We see his anxiety, confusion and excitement hanging out with his friend and wanting to kiss him, but not knowing how to approach it. It's a kiss he has to fight for.

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A young girl witnesses her parents' slaughter by an outlaw who thinks she's an angel. Years later he is a Bible-bashing Sheriff about to hang Sarah, a whore. But Jude, a lone cowboy, saves her. Through their journey, Sarah's feelings for Jude grow. But Jude is the 'angel' in disguise and has to kill the Sheriff before she is ready to love the whore.

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Ravi and Paul, two friends from Leicester, end up attending a gay party in the small Indian town of Shimoga, upon an invitation of Ravi's Parsee email-pal Jeh from Mumbai. A genteel dreamer Ravi instantly falls in love with Mani - a dark and handsome local working man. Ravi and Paul also meet an older male couple, Murthy and Anna, now in their sixties. Murthy has lived in the UK to avoid marriage. When he returns to attend his mother's funeral, his lover Anna (a married man by then) convinces him to stay back. After his wife's death, Anna decides to join Murthy and they run a hotel. Both Ravi and Paul are surprised to meet the older same-sex couple. Although Ravi can't let go of his newfound love, Mani cannot overcome the vast gap that exists between them. Mani is under constant pressure to get married to a woman. When Ravi asks Mani to accompany him to the UK, Mani shows very little willingness. Ravi seeks Murthy and Anna's help, but the couple hide behind words of wisdom and express inability to bring Ravi and Mani together. Tension brews between Ravi and Paul due to sexually charged Mani and the situation highlights some nasty cracks in their friendship. Mani throws in a surprise at the farewell meeting that Ravi's asked for. Interspersed with flashes of semi-surreal situations - presented through exciting dream sequences - Yours Emotionally! unfolds a brightly painted canvas that defies stereotypes and explores contrasting values within Indian and Western gay sub-cultures.