Projects in genres: Drama

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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Shot largely in London with a minimalist cast and crew on a tiny budget using aging out-of-date 16mm and Super 8 film stocks (some up to 40 years old), Shadow Gene utilises 2D animation, live action, graphic and photographic imagery along with a haunting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

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An ambitious scientist takes the perilous decision to inseminate herself with an embryo combining both human and animal cells. Discovering that she is carrying a "pig child" she is torn between scientific drive and maternalistic urges.

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“The secret Life of Balloons”



Written By Nina Graham )

Directed By Nina and Lauren Graham

Produced by Lauren Graham



Actors:

Chris Grant

Holly Hanaway



Filmed in Northern Ireland Helens Bay County Down Summer 2014



Short Film 10 Mins



Log Line:

Sometimes there’s only one thing left to say and only one way to say it.



Synopsis:

The Secret Life of Balloons explores the parallel journeys of a boy and his girlfriend at very different stages of existence. Left lost and believing they’ll never connect again, this uplifting short film asks questions about the boundaries of love, life and letting go.

This is the first short film undertaken by sisters Lauren (age 18) and Nina (age 16) Graham. Inspired by the Australian Theatre for Young People's Fresh Ink playwriting development programme, which collects the best new monologues together to be performed as The Voices Project.

Nina wrote the original monologue as a dramatic piece of creative writing for a school assessment on the topic of love and loss. The sisters then adapted the piece into a short film project that was undertaken during the School holidays as they waited for external exam results. Together they managing to raise and utilise a small budget recruit a great team of friends to help shoot, compose music, edit and perform the work. The end result has been an exciting journey and taken them in a very different direction from the original work. The finished work has both surprised and delighted them from an initial idea of loss and despair they have managed to capture an uplifting film of loss and love.

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A British singer falls in love with a Shaolin monk as they fight to save his mother life back in China.
A story set against a backdrop of UK poverty juxtaposed with the realities of rural China- told through a unique mix of genres: part Chick Flick; part musical; part Kung Fu film. Shot in Shaolin, China and Birmingham, UK, a love story that crosses continents. All this wrapped up into an explosive mix of martial arts featuring the Shaolin Steel Jacket technique.