Projects in genres: Drama

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Arctic Monkeys at The Apollo is a cinematic feast with impressive, intuitive, confidently held master shots - a film that invites the audience to immerse themselves in the style and force of the UK's most striking band as they deliver one of their most intense performances to date. It is an exceptionally high standard piece directed by Richard Ayoade (regular Warp Films music video director and actor from Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh and The I.T. Crowd), captured exquisitely on film by name directors of photography led by Danny Cohen (This is England, Pierrepoint), edited by BAFTA winning editor Nick Fenton (The Boy Who's Skin Fell Off, Sigur Ros documentary ‘Heima’), and produced by BAFTA winning Diarmid Scrimshaw from acclaimed Warp Films (the production company behind Dead Man’s Shoes and This Is England).
 

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Warring spouses Carys and James are accustomed to playing their countless infidelities off against each other, in a continuous battle of one-upmanship. But one night, when Carys finds evidence of James' latest conquest in their own bed, something snaps and a bitter battle of wits ensues. As their barbs grow ever more personal, the couple face up to what could be the final moments of their tempestuous relationship.
 

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When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig, they fall headlong into a volatile friendship that each of them aches for but neither can control. Violent, sexy and funny, Awaydays is a blade-sharp rites-of-passage that buzzes with the post-punk energy of its late-70s Liverpool setting.

Based on the classic novel by Kevin Sampson, and pulsating to a soundtrack of Joy Division, The Cure, Magazine, Echo & The Bunnymen and Ultravox, Awaydays examines identity, fate, the nature of male longings and their need to belong. It is the first major feature film to be set during, and evocatively portray, the first dawning of the football casual fashion cult. Quadrophenia meets Control? Trainspotting meets Stand By Me? Awaydays is all of these - 'A Catcher In The Rye' with switchblades.

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John, a twenty something from Gloucester, came to London with the hope of a new beginning. After 2 years of struggling to get by John finds himself on the street, doing what he can to survive. We follow John for a day as he makes his way.

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Set in a sleepy Fenland village, Backroads is a story about the essential humanity of those who find themselves caught up in sex slavery; and how cultural blindness, complacency, prejudice and inaction can cause just as much damage as any calculated crime.

It is also a film that makes the audience think about and appreciate what they have.

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A teenage girl working in her father's Arabic restaurant is forced to decide which comes first - her dreams, or her family.

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Short film exploring the emotional rollercoaster that a father and son go through after being coincidentally reunited.

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The legacy of Matsuo Basho (1644 – 1694), famous Japanese poet, is his elevation of haiku to the realm of high poetry. This film reveals a glimpse into an account of one of Basho’s journeys in the company of confidante and disciple, Chiri.

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Clarence is faking it. Love, friendship, hardwork. Madness.

He drinks to avoid his unhappiness. His girlfriend, Sophie, is better than the drink, but still doesn't let me escape his unhappiness. And his job is certainly not helping.

Basketcase tells the story of Clarence's descent into madness - or not - and his desperate quest to blame anyone but himself.

It's a sardonic fairytale; a dismal parable. No wonder they're laughing.

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After five years together, Angela longs for marriage, but Paul doesn't believe in it. Angela thinks he doesn't believe in them and leaves him. In his drunken quest for solace, Paul begins a soul-searching journey, trying to overcome his fear of commitment. Will it be in time?

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A film about Denmark's most well know and debated whistleblower - former Military Intelligence Officer Frank Grevil and his 14 year old daughter.
In 2004 Frank leaked confidential rapports regarding information on how The Military Intelligence estimated the possibilities of Iraq being in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Frank, a widower and father of a teenage daughter is now facing a prison sentence due to his actions. How will they cope? And what was his real motive?

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Sheamy, an Irish ex-priest recently released from prison, arrives in London searching for his former mentor in faith, Father Brendan. Sheamy becomes romantically involved with Londoner, Katie, a survivor of rape who wants to get her sex life up and running again!

As their relationship develops, Katie's demons are laid to rest but Sheamy's explode. Sheamy reveals that he was sexually abused as a boy by Father Brendan, but frames it as a 'great love'.

Katie appalled leaves him. Sheamy facing the truth goes crazy and branding Father Brendan a hypocrite attacks him in a church while Fr Brendan is saying Mass.

He is arrested and again is set to return to prison.

Is Sheamy trapped, doomed by past, fate – or can he finally find justice?