Projects in genres: Drama

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Six couples meet in a restaurant. During their meals, the couples begin to break up. They reflect on better times and unrealised dreams but, by the next morning, only six abandoned lovers remain. The film is sung throughout with each couple formed of a singer and a silent actor. The music is by the celebrated Renaissance Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi.

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Jules is on top of the world. Finally, she’s going to have the fairy tale marriage she had always wanted with the man of her dreams. A booze-fuelled hen night takes a dark twist when Jules and her three best friends start playing a dangerous game of truths.

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A burnt out theatre actor watches his penultimate performance over and over on video forever agonising over the cause of his downfall. That is untill an encounter with a hole in the fabric of space and time.

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An independent micro-budget feature film road trip. Two brothers journey through contemporary Scotland from Edinburgh to the Isle of Skye to discover their late father's inheritance.

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The actor plays the writer experimenting/pontificating the different uses for 8mls of ink. If life is only 8mls - what will you do with yours? A visual post modern treat made on one roll of super8, editing in camera, the audio made independently of seeing the exposed film.

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In the middle ages there was an outbreak of dancing manias in Europe that lasted hundreds of years. In the 20th century thousands of Chinese men and some women thought that their genitalia were vanishing, while schoolgirls in Belgium thought that they were being poisoned by a certain brand of fizzy drink. Looking at these various cases, and more, the professor takes us on a musical journey through mass hysteria.

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The Mark of Cain is a powerful and moving film that uses the startling new testimonies of soldiers who have served in Iraq to tell the fictional story of two young men forced into circumstances and actions beyond what they can stand.

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Set in Turkey, a market trader sees an opportunity to make his fortune when he is offered a mission to cross the Balkan border to purchase medicine. This insightful film captures the morally complex world of the black market.

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This bitter sweet drama, follows the story of Andy a divorcee who, in a last ditch attempt to recapture the magic of his own childhood holidays chooses to take his two estranged children on a trip to out-of-season Cornwall. Andy struggles to rebuild a relationship with these virtual strangers, but can only watch as the holiday slides slowly towards disaster. But whilst every day seems to carry Andy further away from his children, at night, the family discovers a new sense of connection through a series of spontaneous dreamlike excursions they come to call The Midnight Drives.

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1939: Rome stands on the brink of the Second World War Europe’s political situation is a tense standoff between two blocks: the British and French liberal democracies against German Nazism and Italian Fascism.  Mussolini’s Italian government has signed ‘The Pact of Steel’ with Hitler’s Germany, before occupying Albania and passing racial discrimination laws. 
 
Despite this political and social tension, it seems to be business as usual in the world of Italian cinema: the producer DAVIDE RIETI (Alfred Molina), is making one of his major films with Cinecittà Studios: Tosca stars the German Krsitina Baumgarten (Catherine McCormack), the English actor James Clavel (Jonathan Pryce), the handsome Italian actor Alfonso Ligouri (Roberto Purvis), the gifted young Renzo Daverio (Rupert Friend), and a beautiful young girl named Maria Grazia(Surama De Castro), and is to be directed by the Hungarian Lazlo Molnar
 
During the Tosca film shoot the two actors,  Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel, as the personification of the two different European mentalities - face each other and finally fall in love. They both try to escape reality living inside a movie.  Shooting has to be interrupted as the banks withdraw their backing following the publication of a compromising article about the homosexual relationship between the Jewish Rieti and Renzo.
 
Making one final extraordinary effort to complete the film over one night.  Before the sunrise and before the War, Tosca is finished.  Kristina and Clavel return to their lives in Britain and Germany,  Rieti is arrested.  Months later, in a theatre crowded with critics and interested parties, Tosca is screened for the first time.

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In 1635, the 152 year old Thomas Parr is taken on a journey to the court of King Charles I. The King orders an immediate celebration of his aged visitors' longevity, with fatal consequences.

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'I know, lets you and me swap blood, at least there’s music in mine.' Upon discovering that she has an incurable blood cancer, Kaz Hauser, a feisty Berlin music journalist, heads to England to seek out the father she's never met and save his soul.