Projects in genres: Drama

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Kevin Lewis never had a chance. Growing up on a poverty-stricken Council estate in London, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and ultimately abandoned by social services, his life was never his own.

Even after he was put into care, he found himself on the streets caught up in a criminal underworld that knew him as 'The Kid'.

Yet Kevin survived to make a better life for himself. This is his heartbreaking and inspiring true story.

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The Calvin family win a cereal competition and an all expenses paid scuba diving trip to an idyllic countryside lake. Whilst diving there's an unexplained catastrophic event and they are the only survivors - or so they think.

The Last Breath is a surreal, breath-taking excursion into the dark heart of family life.

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A film set in a Glasgow protestant community on the day of an orange march telling the story of a young boy who is desperate to be part of a local gang.

While their fathers march through the decaying streets of Glasgow their sons take a sinister journey into the dark heart of modern Britain.

Duty, Service, Glory - The Last Regal Kingsize reveals the reality behind belonging is betrayal.

A groundbreaking synthesis of ethnographic study, real-life characters and hypnotic music and photography. This poetic but unsentimental short is the first drama from acclaimed documentary-maker Simon Hipkins.

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The stories of three individuals, a bomb disposal expert, a young boy and an elderly woman, as they each take the brave steps towards a life-defining moment.

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Peter, a young location scout, visits an abandoned Victorian mansion looking for a setting for a horror film. He meets Thomas, the mansion's enigmatic caretaker, and with him discovers far more than a scary old building.

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The Mapmaker is a short film based on a suicide. It is a series of assumptions after the fact - it is told in still images linked to a third person prose narration. The film explores a hostile environment and makes some vague poetic presumptions on the thought processes of woman as she proceeds to her self termination.

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Ireland, 1942. While the adults are off fighting in the War, two children are forced to walk a fine line between responsibility and childhood fantasy. In the dripping taps and ticking clocks of their home they discover hidden Morse Code messages, but if the messages are real, who sent them?

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The Mountain Within provides a powerful insight into the emotional and physical journeys of a group of seven adults with disabilities as they take on one of the most feared and revered mountains - Mount Kilimanjaro. In doing so, they show us that at the end of the day we all face the same challenges and it is often our hearts and minds rather than our bodies that limit us.

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Jerry Downing is an aspiring novelist who has an ego problem that is turning him into a monster in his household. He is an unformed, incomplete human being that has flaws in his personality. His ordinary world is one where he signs on the dole, checks-in for agency work and watches television over meals. One of his flatmates, Julia Wells, sees his problem and encourages him to give up his novel writing and find a full-time job where he will meet his other half. He refuses the call to adventure because he has been sacked from previous jobs because as a result of writing his novel during working hours. His other flatmate, Kerry Cerberus, invites him to go salsa dancing with her. He declines the offer, suddenly aware of her feelings for him.

Whilst searching for work, Jerry comes across his father who is also unemployed and off to sign on the dole. This highlights the inadequate role models and male figures in his life that have groomed him towards unemployment. He realises that he has to battle against his own nature in order to rise above his situation. He determines in his mind that he will find a job.

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The Park is a drama that focuses on the lives of three teenage boys each living with a secret. The boys talk about things that are happening in their lives but tend not to divulge their true personal thoughts and feelings to one another. For example, the bruise on Tony’s left eye, the amount of ‘p*ssy’ JC gets and the fact that Marvin gets all the p*ssy he needs now that he has a girl friend, but the young men never delve deeper than the surface. As the sun begins to set, the boys say their good byes and this is where the drama unfolds.

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Yorkshire, 1978.

A mother, father and their 3 year old son are murdered. There is no motive.

Incredibly the killer manages to hide the 3 year old's body somewhere the police never find.

The killer was their 12 year old son William.

Malvern, 30 years later.

Ryan is 33. He's an under achieving reporter for a local newspaper.

So why is William, now released and with a new identity, giving Ryan the chance to tell his story to the world?

Because William wants to die and Ryan holds the key. 5 pills being developed by his wife's company.

Can Ryan convince Karen that she should take the risk to get them?

Ryan has 5 meetings to get the story. He has to find out where the 3 year old's body is. Each meeting costs a pill. It's Russian Roulette where every pill could spell the end of William, the secret lost forever.

Ryan also has a secret that will change his life, but the only person who can tell him is his dead father.

In an end, amidst the anger, the bitterness and the demented theories of a tortured mind, this is actually a story of courage, sacrifice and love.

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David, a shy and unsuccessful door-to-door salesman is having a bad day. It's raining, he's working a long street, and the locals are doing their best to make his life hell. In one house, an emotionally unbalanced girl takes a shine to him and tries to stop him from leaving. In another house, a naked couple invite him to join in their sex games and try to take his clothes off. In the next house, a seemingly nice old lady gets him to stick his head into a cupboard full of dead, maggot-infested pigeons. After finding himself dragged into a violent domestic dispute, David retreats to a nearby café, only to receive a phone call from his boss telling him that he has to make at least one sale today or he'll be fired.

David's mood changes from trepidation and despair into something much darker. He feels like all the homeowners are conspiring against him. The next one to let him in is going to get it.