Projects in genres: Drama

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Nine year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes to Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands.
 
As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day.

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For Rachael Crossman, (Laura Fraser) the remote island settlement of Devil's Gate may well be where she comes from but it is a place she never thought she would go back to. Her mother left when she was young and, ever since, Rachael has been searching on the mainland for her, searching for answers, searching for belonging and searching for a purpose to her life.

So, when Rachael's former childhood sweetheart, Rafe (Callum Blue) calls from Devil's Gate, Rachael is not interested. Not until she hears that her father, Jake (Tom Bell) is dying.

Meanwhile, Matt a city boy who has nursed Jake, knows that something is wrong. The terse and alcoholic Jake may well be unwell but he's not dying. Matt decides to stay in Devil's Gate and find out why she has been tricked to come home.

When Rachael arrives, it is obvious Rafe was trying to entice her back to rekindle their former romance. Matt, too, feels a bond between him and Rachael, much to the annoyance of the ultra-possessive Rafe.

The tense love triangle is complicated by the fact that an old hermit, Eagle, seems to have long=lost clues to the disappearance of Rachael's mother. Is Eagle hiding a dark secret, or is he just going crazy after too many long, dark nights in Devil's Gate?

As local policeman Clem gets drawn onto the trail, it soon becomes obvious that there is more to Devil's Gate than the remote landscape can hide. Is Rachael's mother still alive? What happened to her to make her disappear? And why is Rachael so scared to go back to her home?
 
Not many people live in Devil's Gate - and those that do will never be the same again.

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Life's not good for ten year old Angeline. Her family ignore her in favour of her football mad brother while school's not much better. There she spends her time being tormented by a pint sized hardnut with a penchant for big dresses while also fending off advances from the class lothario. To find an escape from all this madness she looks for a bit of heavenly inspiration.

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The least you'd expect after breaking out of prison and taking a woman hostage in her own home is a clean and tidy environment to make your demands. Then the police arrive.

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Tommy is a seven-year-old boy without a Dad who fills in the emotional gaps in his life by believing he is 'Jesus Christ'.

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'Miss King's been taken ill, unfortunately, so you've got me, that's the bad news. The good news is we're going to have a film so you won't need your books - it's about the birds and the bees'.

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An interpreter in a therapy session realises he needs therapy too.

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Three young girls are buying ice lollies on a south Wales housing estate. When Omeed, a young Muslim refugee girl, tries to do the same with a food token, the shopkeeper is angry at her lack of comprehension. Humiliated in front of the other girls, Omeed makes a desperate gesture that might just gain her the acceptance she desires.

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Earthquake! Run for the hills you fools, run for the hills! Aaaaaaaaargh!
 
Terror hits the West Coast as a violent quake shakes the marrow out of every bone in this festival favourite and Sundance award winner.

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Three Midlanders, pretentious Greg, unreliable Stan and ex-forces waster Ant, set themselves up in an East London flat share. As their alcohol fuelled lifestyles swing into action and personalities start to grate on each other, the cloud imposed by Stan's down-to-earth common sense girlfriend Judy, starts to loom menacingly, particularly for the zealously misanthropic Ant. Will Stan be able to have his cake and eat it too?

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A poetic and compelling 16mm film shot in London, Karachi and Lahore which encompasses five stories relating to the times of day for Muslim prayer. The work explores overlaps between time, memory and location. Connecting different places and people through images and sounds, Eating Grass contains documentary footage accompanied by a voiceover in both Urdu and English. The textures of individual voices continually slip from one language to another, creating and repeating rhythms. Meaning is not only conveyed by what is said but also by building tonal rhythmical cadences, similar musical structures to those found in jazz or Indian classical music.

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On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe Rose and his girlfriend Claire are about to open a bottle of champagne when a cry interrupts them. A hot-air balloon with a child in the basket and an adult being dragged behind it has been ripped from its moorings. Joe immediately joins in with an effort to bring the balloon to safety, but in the ensuing rescue attempt a man is killed.
 
Witness to this tragic accident is bystander, Jed Parry. Joe and Jed exchange a passing glance - a glance which carries devastating consequences and which indelibly burns an obsession into Jed's soul. Delusional and dangerous, Jed's fixation gradually uproots Joe's life; testing the lmits of his beloved rationalism, threatening the love of Claire and driving him to the brink of murder and madness.
 
Based on Ian McEwan's best-selling novel of the same name, Enduring Love is a story of love, faith and suspense, and how life can change in an instant.