Projects in genres: Drama and with status: Pre-production

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1350, England: A heroic knight returns to his plague-ravaged homeland. Wracked with guilt for leaving his wife and neglecting his people, he vows to rescue a village woman who vanished in a haunted forest.

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In the 1830s, Winnifred ‘Freddie’ Sheridan finds herself convicted to serve a sentence at the ‘Cascades Female Factory’ in Tasmania. There she meets the charismatic Ellen Scott, a female convict who has created a joyful counter-culture within the misery of 'The Cascades' - a rebel faction known as the ‘Flash Mob’. Together, the two women will grow the ‘Flash Mob’ from an underground movement into a prison-wide feminist phenomenon that could threaten the very existence of ‘The Cascades’.

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Two women ahead of their time, caught in the war that changed the world. Artists, surrealists, lovers, resistance fighters. Based on a true story. Jersey, World War II. Vehemently opposed to any form of oppression, Surrealist artists and lovers Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe (aka Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore) decide to mount their own resistance movement when the Germans invade. They compose notes encouraging soldiers to rise up against Nazism, then disguise themselves and disseminate the notes throughout the island. They continue their operation for 4 years, while the German Command hunt for members of a large, organised movement.

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Max and Margarita, navigate their lives. Past and present are determined by their gazes and the coffee they drink each morning. The days pass, they flow like the waters of the Cauca River, which bring with them a trace, evidence of that loss, of that violence, of the conflict and of that child they have lost. She is the love of his life, but she fades every day into the recesses of memory. Like the loose pages of a diary that Max reads, over and over again, to find her again, to forgive, to never forget, to relive the few moments that still remain by her side. A tragic love story told through the process of coffee making. Or the history of the coffee in Colombia that is a story of love and loss. based on real life events. The Cauca River stops flowing in Beltrán, Marsella, Risaralda. People find dead people every day in the river. Their killers throw them in upstream. Relatives come to Beltrán to see if any of the bodies are their loved ones. This film is about a love story around a river used as a mass grave.

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An Indian warrior pursues a band of Spanish Conquistadors who have enslaved his wife. In the winter of 1541 AD, Naloo a Navajo mercenary is returning home to his Zuni wife, Pavati, who lives with his dead wife’s tribe of Utes. Weighed down by his travel bags full of the spoils from fighting in the Aztec wars, he rescues a Hopi girl, Doli from her Spanish captors and makes her his slave girl to carry his valuables homeward. Meanwhile Spanish raiders capture Pavati, and in a confrontation with Naloo, the Spanish dullard Arturo kills Pavati, thus destroying any hopes of peace making. The Spaniards flee taking Doli with them. After burying his wife, Naloo pursues the Spaniards. Meanwhile Diego, the leader of the Spanish band realises they are lost when they encounter the Anzasi, who are the native bandits of the high sierras. The Spaniards elude them, but Naloo makes a bargain with the unruly Anzasi, paying them to help him find the Spaniards. As Naloo continues to hunt them down, fearful of having to spend the winter in a hostile land, the Spaniards begin to panic and fight among themselves.

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After 10 years together George Sand is out to destroy her ex-lover, composer and court pianist Frédéric Chopin. As revolution breaks in France, 1848, Chopin is reduced to making a living as a piano teacher. When Sand publishes a satirical novel that portrays him as a seducer of young girls, his pupils are withdrawn. Taking the advice of his former student, Jane Stirling, Chopin travels with her to London. A Scottish heiress, Sterling orchestrates concerts and interest among high society and royalty. When Sand’s novel is translated into English Chopin is shunned by London society and forced to Scotland to live off the Stirling fortune. Sand writes to Chopin in Scotland informing him that she has burnt all his manuscripts. Stirling hastily sets about re-scoring Chopin's work. She pursues marriage with Chopin but he rebuffs her, he still loves Sand. Fleeing back to London he quickly sinks into poverty and illness. He collapses at, what is to be, his final concert. Returning to Paris under doctors orders Chopin is confronted by Sand on his deathbed. Against the advice of her family, Sterling travels to Paris finding Chopin dying, he finally concedes his love to her in his final breaths.

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In the forgotten English seaside town of Claypole, a series of serendipitous and unfortunate coincidences conspire to bring the lives and overreaching ambitions of a few misguided dreamers and petty criminals to a nasty end. A police chief investigates, trying to bring an end to the destruction.

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Sophia Archer, an early thirties Anglo-French woman comes home for the holidays to visit her doting father, with her new boyfriend Jase. Tensions instantly run high, as Jase begins to realise his potential future father-in-law David's jealousy threatens to overwhelm his and Sophia's relationship; and that he has been told the truth by neither of them. A surprise and unwanted visitor throws them all into chaos, and Jase has to suddenly realise what Sophia and David are all too aware of: There are such things as vampires, and David is one of them.

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Habitat loss, climate change, poaching, trafficking and trading of animal parts and live animals are all contributing to a global 'sixth extinction event.' This documentary follows the dramatic, dangerous and immensely challenging journey of the 6XT team as they travel the world to unravel the complexities leading to the rapid decline of animal populations and decimation of ecosystems. The 6XT team have set themselves a mammoth task of changing attitudes towards animal conservation globally by raising the curtain on the dramatic, controversial and as yet often misunderstood factors that are bringing so many species to the brink of extinction. This is not a work of fiction; Their journey is fraught with real danger and jeopardy, as they investigate and infiltrate global criminal gangs, trafficking and poaching networks, corporate practices and consumer demands. Following several years of research, production is now poised to begin as the investigations swing into action with cameras capturing every dramatic moment of this astonishing journey.

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Julian Rayes is a geneticist researching lifespan, confronted with the very paradox of wanting to prolong life, while regarding it as a mere by-product of matter, void of any meaning or purpose. Parallel to his research's progress, strange dreams, visions and altered states of consciousness, will provide paradigm changing experiences regarding the purpose of existence, that will reset the course of his career and life.