Projects in genres: Drama

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A young maths genius has his logic thwarted by the one thing he can’t make sense of - love.
Teenage maths prodigy Nathan struggles with people, not least his mother, Julie, but finds comfort in numbers. Mentored by unconventional and anarchic teacher Mr Humphreys, Nathan’s talents win him a place representing Great Britain at the International Mathematics Olympiad. When the team go to train in Taiwan Nathan is faced with unexpected challenges - not least his new and unfamiliar feelings for his Chinese counterpart, the beautiful Zhang Mei.
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Arabia, 1916. Theeb lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Empire. Having recently lost his father, it falls to Theeb's brother, Hussein, to raise him. Hussein tries to teach Theeb the Bedouin way of life, but the young boy is more interested in mischief than mentorship.
Venice Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Tim is a good kid. Tim is a criminal.
Tim has been lucky enough to be taught the cornerstones of basic human decency. He cares for those close to him and is aware of his responsibilities towards them. But unfortunately he has to compete with people who are not complicated by such morality.
Venice Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Shot in London, Shadow Gene explores characteristics in the human race which contradict its own survival: violence and greed.
A beautiful female assassin on a mission to destroy a defective gene in the male species uncovers a corrupt and murky world of corporate power. Raised by a mysterious woman and nurtured into becoming a ruthless hit woman, she targets 'corporate' types who unknowingly carry the notorious 'shadow gene', a parasite gene that compels its hosts to become as violent and greedy as the stock markets demand... without remorse. One day although seemingly accomplishing her mission an encounter with a smug corporate executive sets of a chain of events that shifts the power between victim and perpetrator.
Shot largely in London with a minimalist cast and crew on a tiny budget using aging out-of-date 16mm and Super 8 film stocks (some up to 40 years old), Shadow Gene utilises 2D animation, live action, graphic and photographic imagery along with a haunting piano score to tell its story, along the way creating a kaleidoscopic narrative that reveals aspects of corporate greed from the time of the nineteenth century Luddite to the present day 'Occupy London' Movement.

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In the late afternoon sun the greedy landlord accosts the industrious farmer, demanding he pays the rent.

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Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
An adaptation and relocation of August Strindberg's play 'Miss Julie'.
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Mark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.

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Set in London, S is a raw and uncompromising docudrama about an Eastern-European sex worker and her pimp. A politically conscious account of one of the most worrying phenomena in 21st-century Europe, it concentrates on two individuals and their soul-killing love-hate relationship against the backdrop of sex-trafficking, prostitution and poverty.

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April 15th 1989. One game of football is about to change Liam’s life and the city of Liverpool forever.
Saturday is a fictional account of how the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool supporters, unfolded for one family back home in Merseyside.

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Focused on keeping the dark reasons for his disappearance a secret, Dexter (Joshua Bailey) presents to his wife a last-chance ultimatum: five days of marital bliss in return for his signature on the divorce papers.

A reluctant wife Josie (Emma Jeng) agrees, but gets more than she bargained for.

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Dan dresses up as Dr. Frank-N-Furter from Rocky Horror Picture Show to jump start intimate relations with new mother Mia. He is surprised when the plan massively backfires. It is just the start of a couple addressing deeper parts of their relationship now their new baby has come along.

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A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. One finds freedom, the other death.
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere