Projects in genres: Comedy

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A tenderly offbeat black-and-white romantic comedy with subtitles. Meet Mulligan (a typically English man), Esther (his Scandinavian girlfriend), and the on-screen captions that happen to find themselves along for the ride.

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A first time encounter between a young man and an attractive older woman in one of London's top hotel suites.

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For Igor even the most surreal experience is banal, trapped by the monotony of his extraordinary work. From the Cellar is a comedy about perspective and how innocuous requests can make big waves.

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Do you believe in love at first sight? When Arthur (JOHN HURT) spots Ruth (PHYLLIDA LAW) he knows in his heart that it's true.

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'Marvin was born with a hole in his head, he wasn't born stupid, he wasn't born dead'. Narrated by Steve Coogan (I'm Alan Partridge, Coffee and Cigarettes) with music composed by Jeff Mercel of Mercury Rev, Marvin is a short, slightly twisted, animated film based on Frank Pudney's original idea.

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A panic attack in a supermarket exploring big and little worries that becomes an absurd list to be experienced and taken with a pinch of salt.

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Ben holds a sign in the street for a living, and loves his job more than almost anything. But today is his last day.

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In the latter half of the Twentieth Century a group of maniacs were assembled for the sole purpose of home video entertainment.

Brought together by a sinister consortium these maniacs are forced to battle each other with little to no regard for human safety. Like Gladiators they fought until only one remained. This is that story. This is The Maniac Project.

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The Savage Canvas is about a theatre director with big ideas who finds his radical new performance piece being undermined and ultimately taken from him by a self possessed precocious school girl.

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A Scottish community.

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While most of us sleep, the heroes and villains from the Golden Age of televised British wrestling grapple against the odds to make it home safely from a night out on the tiles.

Set predominantly onboard an iconic red London double-decker bus, this is a journey into a colourfully skewed world of oversized men, ill-fitting leotards, Boston-Crabs, Half-Nelsons and the unforgiving whims of the British public transport system.

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A five minute animation based on an edited recording from a live performance by the comedian Adam Bloom.

The film demonstrates how his skills in improvisation, honed of years of experience as a stand up, come into their own when controlling a particularly boisterous London crowd.