Projects in genres: Comedy

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Set during the Cannes Film Festival, The Making of Plus One packs a punch and pokes more than a little fun at the celebrity obsession fuelling the modern day film industry, full of fads, festival red carpets, creatively incongruous commerciality and artistic dispensability in the far from glamorous reality that is independent feature filmmaking.

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Adaptation of the 1512 Renaissance comedy by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Callimaco, a young Sardinian returns from studying in Paris and is overcome by the beauty of Lucrezia, the virtuoso and beautiful wife of the rich and foolish lawyer Nicia. In his desire to bed her, he engages the services of a dubious fixer Liguro who knows that Nicia and Lucrezia are desperate for a child.

With Ligurio's help, Callimaco masquerading as a doctor, convinces Nicia that the surest way for his wife to conceive is by taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root, with the dire warning that the first man to sleep with her will die within 8 days. Nicia agrees to a plan to kidnap an unsuspecting man to sleep with his wife and thereby draw out the poison, but of course it is the disguised Callimaco who is to be kidnapped.

In order to persuade his wife to agree, because she is so virtuous, Nicia enlists the help of her mother, a woman of questionable virtue, and her confessor, a priest of equally dubious morals.

Ultimately Callimaco succeeds in sleeping with Lucrezia, who herself decides that due to the stupidity of her husband and deception of her mother and confessor, she will continue to be his lover and ‘what her husband wanted for her to have for one night, she now wants him to have forever’. The story is concludes with everyone getting what they want and believing that each has outwitted the other.

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This is a story about a bunch of stupid greedy people in a parallel universe, not too dissimilar to ours, and a small shiny cube that makes really nice sounds.

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Jonny is a compulsive liar, has been all his life. From claiming Spielberg and Madonna as acquaintances to begging for money, his life is one big lie. But when he picks up a hat and is mistakenly spotted as a Rabbi, Jonny is launched into the spotlight as a crime fighting, guitar playing, award winning Rabbi with the world at his feet. At the height of his success though, what will the future hold for 'Rabbi' Jonny, when he pisses off the the evil Rabbi Green at a gerfilte fish eating competition?

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'I must not take over my school'.

The School That Roared is a light hearted comedy for all the family. Millington High School for the gifted and wayward is the worst performing school in the country. The pupils that call this place a home are the most unruly, bizarre but brilliant bunch you would ever meet. However, the school’s consistent low grades are a source of anger to one man, a sinister councilor who intends to tear down the school and make way for a huge community swallowing superstore.

The students learn of this plot and barricade themselves inside their home. In the midst of this stakeout the pupils’ come across a set of ancient documents that state the school can exist as an independent country. With this information the children of Millington declare themselves exempt from the United Kingdom and consequently humiliate the Prime Minister. His feathers ruffled and his party embarrassed he sets in motion events that will change the world of children forever.

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A short film with rain in places.

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A.T. Shank and Son have a bad day at the parlour when a falling boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for the odd couple as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company. This short animated caper puts the fun back into funeral as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale.

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Plucking the string of a guitar takes Jack away to another time and place, but has he thought about the pitfalls of this kind of adventure?

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A gang of kids discover the hiding place of the legendary lost treasure of English kings, the Treasure of Albion.

The gang embark on an exciting adventure exploring dark creepy caves, riding microlights and fighting a castle siege before finding the lost treasure.

Harvey Van Bolingbroke is an evil megalomaniac hell bent on stealing Britain’s treasure for himself. The only thing between him and the treasure is the very annoying youngsters from Albion Hall. The Albion Hall gang upset the corporate giant Bolingbroke inc. and for their troubles they are hunted down and captured. Only by working together can the youngsters thwart Harvey Van Bolingbroke’s plans and rescue the treasure from his evil clutches.

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A Jewish bride and a Palestinian groom on their wedding day in London. But this is not a standard Romeo and Juliet tale of forbidden love.

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A comedy. As Dawn, a pro-female boxer, living a one track life, determined to live her life as she wants and win the title. Those around her think differently.

Does she have what it takes? Is self belief and determination all it takes? How far would you go to live the dream?

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Tales in rhyme of joy and gloom, told in a doctors waiting room.

A film spoken entirely in poetry.