Projects in genres: Drama

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Based on the celebrated novel by Richard Yates, director Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road is the story of young couple (Oscar® nominees Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity.  Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.

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Set on and around the poorest place in the USA, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Rez Bomb is a love story/thriller about a Lakota girl and a white guy who are very much in love but get into trouble with a brutal money lender and must bail themselves out.

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You think you know who you are. You have no idea till you feel the pain of living. What is more important? Safeguarding life or seeking redress?

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When supplies became paltry, John White, as governor of the Colony at Roanoke, was elected to return to England. In doing so he left his pregnant daughter, Eleanor, behind to govern the colony. Upon his homecoming, White found the return to Roanoke to be delayed by war.

Desperate and with few options he turns to an enemy, Simon Fernandez, for help. After a time of preparation and the turmoil, the unauthorised expedition left for the colony. As her father struggles to return, Eleanor struggles to keep the fledgling colony afloat. With food and supplies depleted, dissent begins to grow. Each day brings a longing for White's return and fears of the consequences should he fail. With the struggles of the journey behind them, White and Fernandez arrive at Roanoke only to receive a shock. Every single inhabitant of the island has mysteriously vanished, never to be heard from again.

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Rocket Post is a compelling comedy drama set in the stunning landscape of the Outer Hebrides. It tells the remarkable true story of an idealistic German scientist, Gerhard Zucher, who came to the islands in the 1930s to develop a rocket to transport mail between the inaccessible islands.

When Zucher arrived in this remotest corner of Scotland, he had to deal with local hostility not only to new technology, but also to Germans as during the First World War the Highlands and Islands had lost, per capita, the greatest number of soldiers in the British Isles.

In the film, matters are further complicated when the mistrusted foreigner falls in love with the beautiful local schoolteacher, Catherine MacKay.

The production was filmed on the island of Taransay (previously made famous by the BBC Reality TV show, Castaway).

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Romance is an offbeat drama about the hope, the fragility and the darkness in modern human relationships.

We follow Julie Walker, a 29-year-old women, on a first date as she tries to re-engage with life and the possibility of love, after leaving a violent relationship.

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Runner takes its audience as close as possible to the mental and physical experience of running a marathon through sound and the moving image. Using material from the 'Great North Run' in England and combining this with specially shot sequences of a single runner, it follows the journey of a man, one soul in the flood of 50,000.

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A dark thriller set in the seedy underworld of prostitution and drugs.

Steve, a taxi driver gets more than he bargained for from his friendship with a prostitute he drives for.

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A little girl spies two men breaking into a derelict house. Fascinated by them, she brings herself to the men's attention and a friendship blossoms: but the little girl is unaware she may be crossing dangerous boundaries.

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Shantell must step up and find her feet on the street, in the battle to find out who's 'Super Bad'.

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A mid-teen, middle-class North London kid. Bored at school, he’s dealing weed (‘shotting’) to his friends. Like you do. But today, his mum discovers his gear and taking refuge at his dealer’s house, things start to get weird.

Shotting won the Short but Sweet screenwriting competition for under 19s.

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An estate agent, desperate to sell a Show Home before he is delisted, encounters a beautiful but mysterious viewer who refuses to leave the house. As they move from room to room and her behaviour turns more erratic, he wonders if he might get lucky with a sale, or with more.