Projects in genres: Drama

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Still Living, charts the daily routine of a young pretty blonde, Lucy. She likes to party, she dresses to kill. Is there more to her life?

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The Emperor of Hebalon dies a dramatic death, taking a terrible legacy with him to the grave. It is widely feared that the Zeriths, the Hebalonian's arch-enemies, have fanned new heat into the embers of the muderous enmity that has existed between the two nations from time immemorial.   Martial law is declared, and the heavy gates in the city of Hebalon are locked firm. No outsider can gain entrance. The Emperor's young and untried son, Hal Tara, who is now the heir apparent to the throne, is charged with avenging his father's death. But Hal is unaware that his kingdom is threatened from within, where traitorous and malevolent elements are planning to overthrow him.   Hal manges to gain access to the Zerith camp, but he is no longer so sure who is friend, and who is foe. As Hal gradually starts to come of age as a warrior, he falls deeply and passionately in love - a love that proves to be as blind and unreasoning as hatred itself.   It will take a moment of revelation before he is finally able to distinguish between his true friends and his true enemies. But it still remains to re-establish peace and justice in the land. A major new war is brewing, but battle-lines are unclear - and behind lose lines there are both friends and enemies.

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Two women: one in America and the other in Ireland. Both are at the emotional crossroads of their lives. In order to escape their tumultuous lives at home, they temporarily swap houses. Borrowing something from each other's lives, they embark on a journey of self discovery, and in turn, find their destinies are forever altered.   Adapted from the book by international bestselling novelist Maeve Binchy.

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Jake and Adam are chancers who have always survived on their wits. The dilemma that they face is a universal one which few of us ever address. We are mortal. This is what transforms the story from the tragi-comic to the heroic. The through-line of this film is two-fold. First we follow Jake's journey. Second we take the audience on their own journey of discovery.   When people are confined they will attempt to draw the universe into their own space. The barn shifts in size. Sight and sound are perceived differently. The logic of the dialogue is pushed to absurd extremes, to the point where logic itself breaks down.

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What do you do when you are made Best Man to someone you hardly know and end up falling for his bride to be? Olly is a gifted writer - in fact a publisher has given him a healthy advance. Unfortunately he has also been struck with writer's block and frittered away said advance. Then, out of the blue, James, Olly's best friend from university whom he has not seen for five years, gets in touch. James is getting married and he wants Olly to be his Best Man. Olly is immediately terrified about how he is going to write a speech when his writer's block is so extreme. His fears are briefly pushed aside at the engagement party when he meets the girl of his dreams - until James introduces her to Olly as Sarah, his bride to be! Murray, Olly's best friend, can see only one course of action - Olly must break up the happy couple and make Sarah his own. However, Olly opts for plan 'b' - to simply avoid Sarah at all costs. But this is not as easy as it seems, especially with Murray working behind the scenes. When Sarah unexpectedly calls off the wedding James begs Olly for his help. Olly is torn between his moral duty and his love for Sarah. He decides to come to his assistance and offers to help James write a letter expressing his feelings for Sarah. On reading Olly's words Sarah is smitten with James once more, but by now Olly has realised that James is not the man he thought he was. Can Olly prevent Sarah marrying the wrong man?

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Set in the 1980s,  the era of Thatcher’s children and ‘loadsa money’, The Business is the story of Frankie (Danny Dyer), a young lad from the tenements of South London who finds his dreams in the idyllic South of Spain – a place where criminals live out their fantasies away from British law. Frankie arrives in Malaga with a tin full of cash for Charlie (Tamer Hassan), an ex-con playboy heading up the local gang of ex-pats living the high life in the small Spanish town of Puerto Banus. Frankie, lured by the glitz, soon becomes Charlie’s second in command. As Frankie becomes drawn into the world of organised crime, he loves every minute of it.  Fuelled by the money, the women and the drugs, life at the top is sweet. But things can get tough when you attract the wrong sort of attention, especially when that happens to be psycho Sonny’s girl Carly (Georgina Chapman). Frankie’s about to find out that dreams can quickly turn vicious as loyalties shift, business gets out of control and friendships are tested to breaking point.

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Two bellboys await payday. One receives a £5 tip, with which he buys cigarettes. The banknote is passed on to a man who uses it for a lapdance. The dancer passes it to her daughter for an ice-cream. As the vendor rushes away it blows through his window, being caught by the second bellboy.

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Albert is a tramp who dreams of becoming a member of the exclusive Gentlemen’s Club known as The G.O.D Club. When a sack of money, heaven sent, lands at his feet, he must learn to reconcile the material benefits of his new life with the spiritual comfort of his old one.

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Three teenage boys are led into violence and temptation on a journey that will shock their sleepy community yet also express its deepest jealousies and divisions.   The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael is a brutal and unflinchingly honest portrayal of life in a post-9/11 world. Filmed in long stylised takes, the narrative is elliptical and poetic, yet infused with a dark and ironic wit.   Selected for Critics' Week, Cannes 2005.

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"When the world talks about the men who carried out this holy operation they will be talking about the men who changed the course of history," exclaims a senior Al Qaeda member in this fictional docu-drama from director Antonia Bird. Charting the planning and execution of the World Trade Center attacks by a handful of Muslim fundamentalists led by Mohamed Atta (Kamel), The Hamburg Cell is a devastatingly powerful work that puts faces and personalities to the men who carried out the attacks against the US on the fateful morning of September 11th.   Based on a wide range of documentary evidence, from court transcriptions to video footage, this simmering yet understated little movie focuses on Lebanese student Ziad Jarrah (Saleh) as he's transformed from rich-boy student at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg to jihadist hijacker of United Airlines flight 93 (which crashed en route to the White House shortly after simultaneous attacks struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon).   It's a difficult journey. Immersing us in the secretive, clandestine world of these fundamentalists as they indoctrinate new recruits, train at terrorist camps in Afghanistan and learn to fly at an aviation school in Florida, Bird forces a disturbing intimacy with men destined to become mass murderers.

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A medieval morality story in which, despite the dawning of a new age of enlightenment, blood brothers become arch enemies and friendship turns to hate.

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The Libertine tells the true story of the Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), friend and confidant of King Charles II (John Malkovich), who delights in tweaking the noses of London’s royals with his merciless cynicism. His rebellious escapades and sexual liaisons inspire awe amongst men, until an affair with the beautiful young actress Lizzie (Samantha Morton) proves to be his undoing.