Projects in genres: Children’s

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Out in space stars serenely watch the city through a cloudy sky. Underneath lives Charlotte, a little girl. Tonight is a sad one and something prevents Charlotte from expressing her feelings through her talent: to play the clarinet. Paralysed by fear Charlotte travels deep inside herself and learns how to shine even in the darkness - like stars.

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Special People is an improvised comedy following a neurotic film-maker's latest project - a pretentious film featuring disabled kids climbing a mountain. Jasper slowly cracks up as he is bombarded with flak by his unco-operative students. In the end, however, we all need to find a way to work together.

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"This story takes place on a cold winters night, where a shadowy figure is seen taking to flight." In a stylised Victorian London where one might easily come across Sherlock Holmes, Mary Poppins or even Jack the Ripper we are introduced to Spring Heeled Jack! A tiny goblin with spring for legs who spends his nights smelling the cold night air for the distinctive odour of a naughty child fast asleep in bed. As soon as he catches the scent he’s away, springing across the frozen city until he arrives outside the right window - he's never seen, at least not by anyone who ever be able to speak again! This dark fairytale is helped along with classic versed narration as the story bobs and weaves revealing a magical and dark fairytale world.

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Alex Rider is a normal teenager who lives with his uncle, a boring bank manager. Or so it seems until Ian Rider dies in mysterious circumstances. Alex discovers his uncle was in fact a spy and has been murdered by one of the most dangerous assassins in the world. Recruited into MI6, the schoolboy is thrust into the world of espionage. Linguist, scuba diver, mountaineer, crack shot and martial arts expert, Alex has all the attributes required to make the perfect teenage super spy. Armed with his own set of special gadgets he embarks on his first mission.  

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C.S. Lewis’s classic adventure follows the exploits of the four Pevensie siblings - Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter - in World War II England who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of ‘hide-and-seek’ in the rural country home of an elderly professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to overcome the White Witch’s powerful hold over Narnia in a spectacular, climactic battle that will free Narnia from Jadis’s icy spell forever.

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An interpretation of the 'nonsense' poem by Edward Lear. Deep in the forest strange creatures twitter and hum. Panic ensues when a warning cry is heard - 'The Cummerbund is come!'

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Searing, visceral, real-time drama following the aftermath of a shooting on an inner-London estate. Angela is the victim and her boyfriend, Jaybee, sets out to avenge her death. But who was really the gunman?

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The kelpie is a legendary beast from Scottish mythology that, in the guise of a horse, drags unwary people to their death in the loch. Ewan is a young boy in the Highlands who decides to vanquish the kelpie, in a terrifying encounter that challenges his resolve.

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Framton Nuttel, a nervous young gentleman from London, goes to the countryside for a rest cure, only to find he has strayed into a family tragedy with ghostly overtones.

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A mysterious masked figure, a mix of Zorro and Robin Hood, flits over the roofs of the old city of Venice at night. He is the Thief Lord. An ancient merry-go-round with magical powers is hidden on an island in the lagoon of Venice. It can advance or reverse the age of its rider if the long-lost lion's wing is found and re-attached. The Thief Lord and his gang of ragamuffin child runaways find the wing and are drawn into a fantastic and spellbinding adventure that will leave them all changed forever.

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A group of enterprising students strive against the odds to achieve their dream of acting on the big stage. The youngsters decide to stage Shakespeare's Macbeth at Crewe's Lyceum Theatre and recruit Eric Shepard, a once feared and respected theatre director, whose own career has been cut short by injury. The film, like the play they eventually put on, is a triumph of perseverance and self-belief.

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It's ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace and Gromit’s neighbourhood and our intrepid chums are cashing in as elite pest-control duo Anti-pesto. With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming!   But running a 'humane' pest control outfit has its drawbacks. Wallace and Gromit's home is brimful of captive bunnies and Gromit's daily task of feeding the ever-expanding population is second only to his job of feeding his master: with all their recent success, Wallace has been over-indulging in his beloved cheese and Gromit is struggling to keep him on a strict vegetable diet. True to form, Wallace resorts to technology to cure all his problems with 'the Mind-manipulation-o-matic', a simple brain-altering device.   All is well until an unexplained, nocturnal, veg-ravaging rabbit monster begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots. Soon the townsfolk are in uproar and the fate of the competition lies in the balance, until beautiful heiress and vegetable competition hostess Lady Tottington, impressed with Wallace’s humane methods, commissions Anti-pesto to apprehend the beast and save the day. Wallace's aspirations rise - this is just the sort of client he's dreamed of.