Projects in genres: Drama

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Two young video game obsessed teenage boys. Jim, who’s struggling with his parents divorce, and his best friend Matt. A power cut stops them playing their video games so they have to rely on their imaginations for entertainment. Inventing their own adventures they embark on a journey of discovery aboard their homemade go-cart as Jim hatches a plan to stop his parents divorcing. However a newcomer to the road, Jack, challenges the boy's friendship but together they inadvertently find themselves on a mission to save Christmas - in July.

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At her birthday, sensible but gullible Julita is expecting her insensitive boyfriend Adria to propose but instead he breaks up with her, sending her mind in a surreal trip of hurtful denial.

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A rickshaw driver with bad knees makes brief but powerful encounters with buskers, drunks and potential passengers on his last night in Edinburgh.

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Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the REvolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventrues - both romantic and dangerous - to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions.

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Evalyn has moved to the city from her countryside childhood home, the change is not what she was expecting and it isn't until she meets Harry she comes to terms with her situation.

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April Hewitt's life takes an unexpected turn when she replies to a question written on a park bench.... she returns to find a reply, and continues the messages. However, when she discovers the mystery writer is an ex-con she starts questioning whether she should continue the correspondence.

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With one man’s wedding moments away, he and his best friend confront their future.

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1928, D. H. Lawrence is a man fulminating against the dying of the light. In a series of vivid moments Lawrence presents the personalities and events which shaped his early life and his sexuality. His memories; a mixture of pathos, passion, and rose tinted reflection that culminate, finally, in the preciousness life itself. A complex and self-contradictory character, out of step with his background and education, Lawrence is revealed as a man of song with a gift for mimicry as well as profound story-telling with an ability to challenge the sexual mores of his generation.

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Cab driver Charlie is intent upon delivering a bouquet of flowers to one-off customer Deryane. She's not expecting any visitors. He's not expecting any hospitality, so their tea and conversation comes as a complete surprise. Ironically, they have more in common than they think.

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A rugged but magnetic outsider, Henry, arrives in town, he soon has a series of seemingly chance encounters with a younger local girl, Jenna, who appears isolated and vulnerable. Love Story explores the themes of detachment and dependence, and asks what risks we will take to escape feeling alone.

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A rugged but magnetic outsider, HENRY, arrives in town at night - his clothes filthy, a duffel bag slung over his shoulder. He soon has a series of seemingly chance encounters with a younger local girl, Jenna, who appears isolated and vulnerable.

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The film centres on John Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and Jack Hamilton after their narrow escape from Little Bohemia. As they are fleeing, Hamilton is shot in the lung. They attempt to seek treatment for Hamilton as his condition rapidly worsens and he begins to succumb to gangrene and dementia.