Projects in genres: Comedy

Synopsis

Two cyclists and a car wait at temporary lights. Will they see red?
Part of "The MUTE Series" of short experimental comedy film made with adherence to three rules:
RULE 1  no dialogue
RULE 2  no camera moves
RULE 3  only one shot

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Two brothers rob a corner shop only to be interrupted by their Nan.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A daring deepfake short that follows Sean Connery's unravelling after he witnesses Marilyn Monroe's return from the dead. The film raises compelling questions about truth and power, and satirises some of the more histrionic narratives pushed by the media regarding deepfakes and their contribution to the 'decline of truth'.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2024

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An injured boy in the woods. An eccentric groundsman. They’re mortal enemies. They just don’t know it yet.
Set over one long night in the English countryside, injured animal rights activist Cameron is tended to by the kind, if bizarre, farmhand Paul – who, he is about to learn, is the local Terrier Man. The encroaching reveal about who each other are unwittingly sets them deep into a paranoid spiral with a grisly end.

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A dark comedy giving a glimpse into the eccentric world of megastar actor Otto Fonk.
Otto awakes bandaged in hospital and unrecognised by his fellow patients, he then undergoes a journey of self discovery climaxing in mischief.

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For as long as Jack can remember he and Danny have been friends, Danny has always got Jack into trouble. Young Jack has a few brushes with the law and blows up half a high street before turning to acting. All is going well until Jack lands his first feature film role in a gangster movie and Danny allows Jack to shadow his South London criminal family. Jack is soon in it way over his head with hilarious and deadly consequences.

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In a small Portuguese town, a family's dynamic is thrown into turmoil when their son leaves to study in London. Focusing only on the school breaks when he comes back home (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn), we observe snapshots of a daughter’s coming of age, a father's mid-life crisis, a son’s emancipation and a mother learning to cope with an "empty nest”.
An intimate, heartwarming and nuanced portrayal of family relationships, offering a poignant reflection on how we all often struggle to move on, grow up and grow old.
Official Selection Austin Film Festival 2023

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Sequel to the 2000 Aardman Animation hit film CHICKEN RUN.
Sequel to the 2000 Aardman Animation hit film CHICKEN RUN - Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat. For Ginger and her team, even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk – this time, they’re breaking in!
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Inside the Oval Office the President has a moment of lucidity.
Part of THE MUTE Series, a collection of deadpan micro-films made with adherence to three rules: RULE 1 no dialogue; RULE 2  no camera moves; RULE 3  only one shot

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Comfort posits frustrated workers in an anxious landscape, partnering conventions of period dramas with the voice of a shifting protagonist: a cleaner.

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After ransacking an ancient island monastery, two siblings, now trapped in their sinking camper van, are torn apart by history, hallucination, and a sacred stone.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - LFF for Free - NETWORK@LFF Shorts Programmes

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A Kafka-esque nightmare about a screenwriting professor whose life slowly unravels after he learns he may lose his job to a man who appears to him as his doppelgänger.
As the Brutalist architecture of Jeremy's world closes in on him, he makes a terrible decision...