Projects in genres: Drama

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A man suffers a fatal heart attack as he steps off a London Underground tube train and collapses on the platform. His life flashes before him as he drifts between dreams and reality, questioning what has been and what still might be. As his heart beats it's last he seeks comfort in the image of the one person who has meant most to him.

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Interweaving stories inside a multi-storey car park.

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Funny and bizarre, this is the heart-warming tale of an unlikely family striving to achieve spiritual fulfilment in the murky waters of the 21st century.   In a quiet corner of England a former rabbi is living a remarkable life based on the ancient patriarchy of the Old Testament. Six years ago, God told the rabbi that he was to become a Hebrew King, and like a good patriarch, take multiple wives. Now he raises horses, runs four second-hand furniture shops in Brighton and Hove and lives with seven women who, while not legally his spouses, believe their union is sanctioned by God. Each seeks a different sort of spiritual fulfilment: from Chava, widowed after 25 years of marriage and the oldest of the wives, to Tracy, who has been banished from the house for resisting Philip’s patriarchal role. As the film progresses, the filmmaker gets extraordinary close to the family but reserves judgement, preferring to present them with all their foibles, strengths and contradictions.

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Unemployed Lee is an inside kind of guy, living in a bedsit hell. He loathes the shrill communual phone, but nobody else can be bothered to answer it. Not even Prentis, it's almost always for him, a girl called Nadine. There's been pain between these two and Lee's about to get right in the middle of it.  

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'and I knew there was something wrong with the girl the first time I killed her'. A pumped-up, overblown thriller of a teen flick which gets rudely invaded by sci-fi as the class reject stalks the prom queen and gets more than was advertised on the packaging.

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Old age encroaches and Jack is threatened with separation from his beloved wife, when a chance meeting with a young thug brings a disturbing resolution. Plenty of Spoons prompts its audience to consider the issues of community care, respect across the generations and how our society values its elders.

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Too insecure to approach the girl of his dreams, Danny takes a job at the local multiplex where she works, only to find out that his first day is her last. After some spectacular early failures he resorts to drastic action by enlisting the help of the chief projectionist, a guru-like figure who unfortunately no longer sees any difference between real life and reel life. This is cinema - but not as you know it.

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Sangeeta journeys from India to be with her loved one, but on arrival the unthinkable happens. Poppy explores grief and betrayal, creating tangible textures, emotion and atmosphere, in an alarmingly lyrical and mature short film.

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When Sarah witnessed the murder of her father in a London back alley, her life was shattered. Moving far away from the city was the only thing that seemed to make sense. But moving your life can't always change your life. An overwhelming sense of loss has left Sarah's family damaged and divided. When the power fails during a muted New Year's Eve celebration in their remote mountain home, the family soon realises that something devastating has occurred. Vulnerable and alone, Sarah and her three younger siblings must learn to survive in a new and uncertain world. Struggling for food, insecure and reeling in a search for meaning, the family is yet to face its deepest challenge - the past.  

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Adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel following the adventures of the five Bennet sisters, including the strong-willed Lizzie, the serene and beautiful Jane, and Lydia, the youngest and most impetuous, and their attempts to find husbands. When a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends take up summer residence in a nearby mansion, the Bennets are abuzz with the hope that potential suitors will be in full supply. But once Lizzie meets the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr Darcy, what could seem like a match made in heaven quickly becomes one of the most classic battles of the sexes ever portrayed in literature and on screen.

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An old house in London on a bitterly cold night. In the house, a crowd of people are gathered, young and old, their rapt attention fixed on one man, Simon Puritan, a medium. A man who talks with the dead. Simon picks a husband and wife in the crowd and tells the husband that their deceased daughter is in the room with them. The husband is in shock as Simon tells him things that only he and his wife could know, delivering the husband a message from his daughter - a message of hope and love from the afterlife. The husband is a changed man; the pain in his eyes has vanished. Later, in the now empty house, Simon meets the wife who pays him for the service he has just rendered. There was no daughter's visit from beyond the grave; Simon had manipulated the wife's grief in order to ease her husband's suffering. The whole thing is a set-up and Simon is the worst of all con artists. But fate is catching up with him. Later that night, Simon stands waiting on an eerily deserted Underground platform. Just before a train arrives, Simon spots something out of the corner of his eye. A scarred figure charging towards him. Everything goes black. And the mystery begins. He wakes up in hospital, seemingly healthy; but something has been triggered and his life will never be the same again. In the tradition of films such as The Sixth Sense; Memento and Donnie Darko, Puritan is an intelligent supernatural thriller which twists and turns, never letting the audience know its secret until the final moments of the film.

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Essex crime boss Don Paice crashes into depression after the death of his wife and hires a hitman to dispose of himself, deciding that he has nothing left in this life worth living for. On discovering that his wife mothered a son of his, that he knew nothing about, he has a change of heart about his fate. The hitman, however, has been ordered to do the job no matter what - ironically, by Paice himself.