Projects in genres: Drama

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A unique take on the world's most performed play The Cherry Orchard. The film explores Chekhov's play and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author creating a new space between narrative and documentary. Six actors are brought together in a country house over one weekend to put on an improvised version of The Cherry Orchard. They are pleased to see each other again and begin to explore the house and talk about old times. They chat about the play and what they feel needs to be done during this weekend but as they cast themselves as suitable characters cracks begin to appear. They discuss the dramatic themes - longing for things past, decay, regret, loss, spite and jealousy which slowly and imperceptibly begin to take over the actors and their characters. Little do the actors realise they will be consumed by the play both as the characters, over which they argue, bitch, make alliances and betrayals, and as themselves, loving, jealous, spiteful, bullying human beings. What begins as a light-hearted weekend of theatrical fun gradually turns into a self-doubting and destructive scenario. As they gather in the garden to make their theatrical entrance will they ever be able to be friends again?

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Medieval England has just been struck by a plague. The fate of two sculptors will be decided today. With a brutal moneylender breathing down their necks and The Black Death wrecking havoc will they be able to escape doom? 100% of the dialogue spoken in rap and poetic verse.

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A young woman goes on a 1,700 mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with her four camels and faithful dog.

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Kerry is a train driver, she is on sick leave due to a trauma at work. While roaming the train network to make sense of her tragedy she meets a man who understands her and knows what she needs.

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Quintessential Northern family, the Clements lead an ordinary life... with one small snag. In a quiet street in leafy suburbia, Rose Clements - loving mother to Emma and Patrick and wife to Dave - is quietly stacking up a body count of accidental murders... through no motivation other than her own clumsiness. Dave finds himself burdened with the task of dutifully covering up Rose's deadly path of destruction; quite the quandary due to his inherent family values. Through ingenious body disposal methods and cover ups, Dave and Rose attempt to maintain an air of normality in the home... But gradually and inevitably, the police are closing in... How far would you go to protect your family?

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A young Viking warrior is sent by his father the King on a quest to find his estranged brother.

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A mysterious woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. Events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

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Tony Grisoni's powerful drama tells the story of a fictional English market town devastated by a spate of shootings that take place over a single day. Originally shown as a four part TV mini series.

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There is a long night when Hugo, a civil servant, is sitting on the stairs of the Ministry where he works. He can’t face going home. The images of the mysterious 8 mm films he found in António’s house after he passed away keep coming back to his mind. Hugo remembers the day when Antonio, his superior at the Ministry, told him that he was going to die. Indirectly, Antonio seemed to want to tell him something about Hugo himself. Hugo’s desire to understand what had remained unsaid between the two of them, triggers other memories from the past. Hugo unexpectedly thinks back on the last time he saw the woman he loved, Adriana, and relives once more what he feels has been his unlived life.

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The final shift between a pregnant carer and one of her patients.

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Claudia always imagined she would drive off into the sunset in the beautiful Ford Capri she was promised by her father. When hard times forced the sale of the car Claudia's chances of escape seemed a distance fantasy until an advert in the auto trader ignites her desire.

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When Dylan, a middle aged man, finds an unusual question left for him in a vending machine by a little girl he doesn’t know, his repetitive daily life starts to change.