Projects in genres: Drama

Synopsis

Meet Anna. Anna's best friend is Rachel. Rachel has a brother called Tom. Tom's best friend is Chris. Chris loves Tom, but Tom loves Anna. Anna knows this and is encouraged by Rachel. Rachel loves Anna too, but not like that. Chris loves Tom, exactly like that. Anna loves Tom back, but can't do anything about it. You see, Anna holds a nasty secret. One that could ruin everything for everyone. At age fourteen, Anna was raped by her brother.

Meet Anna. A girl in torment. This is the story of no-one seeing, no-one caring and no-one knowing why she cries.

Synopsis

Oscar winning Director Richard Attenborough helms a deeply moving love story, beautifully interwoven between 1991 and World War Two, about how an American woman honoured a wartime promise, with a lifetime of denial - and how the discovery of a gold ring on a distant Irish hillside brought her back to life.

Synopsis

A story that seems to revolve around an ex-husband stalking his former wife turns into something altogether different, and very poignant, as this evocative tale of love and loss unfolds.

Synopsis

Dog used to run a highly profitable team of international telephone fraudsters, until he was chased into hiding by a hitman. With little human contact and only a white crow for company, Dog has survived only on paranoia and memories. Now, two years later, he's still alive and desperate to live.

He's had time to re-evaluate his life, and realizes that he doesn't understand most people's idea of normality; but the lure of the buzz, the money and the bullshit is too much: He wants to get his old team together again for one last pitch.

So now he's back on the case, putting together a massive telephone scam, and we're there to witness it in detail so accurate, it's almost a beginner's guide to telephone fraud!

But will this lifestyle still provide him with the illusions he needs to believe in himself?

Synopsis

Marion and her ten year old son, Stuart, look after an old National Trust property while it is closed over winter. Stuart and his mother return from a visit to a psychiatrist who is intrigued by Stuart, as he draws his nightmares on scraps of paper that he then collects in jars. One night, a precious jar is broken and the nightmare within escapes into the large old house, where it stalks mother and son.
 

Synopsis

Young Anna Holz, a student at the Vienna Music Conservatory is summoned to the offices of Herr Schlemmer, Beethoven’s publisher. His Ninth Symphony is about to be premiered and Schlemmer, who is dying of cancer, needs a copyist to complete the score. Anna eagerly accepts, despite his warning that Beethoven is a monster.

As her work of copying down the music of Beethoven proceeds, Anna is drawn into the maestro’s tortured and inspired world. She sees their collaboration as a God-sent opportunity to prove her own talent as a composer; he glimpses in her a pure soul who might help him realize the culmination of his art – the creation of the last string quartets, the most sublime and spiritual music ever written.

Beethoven reveals his growing need and affection for Anna as they work together on the string quartets.  She boldly shows Beethoven her own work. Thoughtlessly, he derides it and she leaves him in despair.
Desperate, Anna accepts her longtime paramour, Martin’s, proposal of marriage. Beethoven storms after her - she must choose between Martin and him. Anna tries to flee Vienna but cannot; her destiny is linked to Beethoven’s. She returns to finish their work and finds him dying. From his dictation she copies the last of the quartets. His work on earth done, he frees her to become what he tells her she was born to be – a composer.

Synopsis

Alistair McIntyre, a sales assistant at a department store in Glasgow, has a secret that he cannot divulge. He and his sister grew up in a hippy commune in Spain. Sixteen years ago, after a big row with his parents, Alistair was dumped on a dusty country road in Granada. That was the last time he saw Cristina. He now discovers that she is living in a commune in the Scottish highlands. He turns up, with a film crew in tow, and, although she is absolutely happy here, Alistair is determined to save her.

Synopsis

Chris is having a secret affair with a work colleague, Layla. His wife, Jenny phones her friend Helen, to discuss her suspicions and at the same time looks for definite evidence. Jenny accidentally meets Layla in the office lift but doesn't have the courage to challenge her husband's lover. Finally, Jenny decides to follow Chris to Layla's house. Inside Layla's boudoir matters take an unexpected turn and Chris ultimately loses more than his underpants.
 

Synopsis

A gang of inner-city kids have discovered a dark new sport - urban fox-hunting.
 
Watch on BBC Film Network.

Synopsis

Mel and Ash are two British Chinese gay men who studied together. After attending the funeral of Gavin, a closeted friend from their university days, they start examining the crow's feet on their faces and questioning the meaning of the labels in their wardrobes.

Mel, an aging scene queen with the ego of Norma Desmond, believes life is a beauty pageant with him always the winner. He rejects the love of Todd, a provincial boy from the Welsh valleys who moves to London to be with him, in favour of quick-fix sex to fight his insecurities. But how long can he sashay down the catwalk when his eye bags are bigger than his Gucci bags?

Ash is tired of the jaded gay scene where steroid bodies and the Atkin's diet are the only offerings on the menu. He meets Diane (a.k.a Dan) a transexual from their college days with a butch, sexy and straight looking ex army boyfriend, Ross. Ash decides the only way for him to find a real man is to cross dress. Will his foray into the wonderland of tranny burrows and tranny chasers bring him his dream man?

With an underground drag club, sex in public toilet and an all male production of the Miss Pacific Rim Beauty Pageant, Cut Sleeve Boys is a quirky stir fried journey of self discovery and a makeover of the British Chinese gay experience.
 

Synopsis

Dimitri awakens from his bathtub after a rough night unaware of what is about to happen to him next. A dark atmospheric film from Foghorn Films, this is the first film from director Colin Ross Smith.

Synopsis

Set in the near future, at a time when American foreign and domestic policies have further polarised the country’s electorate, the film explores the fallout from a horrific attack on the administration. Death of a President is a fictional drama, told in the style of a retrospective documentary, which offers an oblique critique of the contemporary US political landscape.