Projects in genres: Drama and with status: Production, Post-production

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Fay lives a life that is blurred and frayed at the edges; memories are catching up with her as past cruelties come into focus. Fay's sister, Alice, reaches out and reveals that they have been given a house by their missing Father, now presumed dead. Alice reveals that in order to retrieve the keys, she has to meet with her stepmother, Candace, the woman Fay holds responsible for her past trauma. The two sisters attempt to rebuild their relationship while grappling with their own versions of the past.

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A short horror set in 19th Century India, where a nurse’s first night on the job descends into terror as she discovers the truth behind the disappearances of mixed race babies.

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DEAD ON THE VINE is a dark comic thriller. Ellis and Drayton have been sent from London on a job, but things go wrong when Drayton has a seizure forcing them to stop at a vineyard owned by Joni and Cora. While Drayton recovers, a panicked Ellis tells a string of lies to explain their situation, but things unravel when others arrive on the scene.

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Liverpool, Autumn 2019. Sarah (Jodie Comer), unsupported at home and with a history of school exclusion, finds a job as a care home assistant. She’s a natural. Sarah cares for Tony (Stephen Graham), a man with young-onset Alzheimers, and they forge an unlikely bond over the card game 'Shithead'. March 2020. Covid hits the UK and hospital patients (mostly untested) are shunted into care homes to make space for critical cases. There is minimal personal protection equipment and insufficient funds and staff to deal with the growing onslaught of illness. Horrified at the spiralling death rate of her vulnerable patients and colleagues and desperate to save Tony from catching the virus, Sarah makes a snap decision. She springs Tony and they go on the run.

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A troubled vagabond who helps strangers bring an end to their suffering is forced into a reckoning with his own moral duties as a father. JACKDAW is a dark, experimental drama that explores the emotional complexity bound to the debate on euthanasia.

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The high street as we know it, is dying. Hector is a burdened father, a widower, and a corner shop owner with the weight of his store's survival. As the owner of The Trading Post, he is a selfless shopkeeper always trying to meet the needs of his customers. Inheriting the shop from his mother, he moved into the apartment above with his daughter Cleo after his wife was killed in a car accident. The store now faces the threat of closure in light of a new ‘Hypermark’ opening and Hector's inability to adapt to the modern climate. His wife’s death sparked a deep fear of the outside world and the dangers it poses. He rarely goes outside himself and certainly doesn’t want to risk his daughter’s safety out there, homeschooling her and letting her help at the store instead. He grapples with fatherhood while trying to keep the store afloat. Cleo watches from the window as the world goes by, longing to experience what it has to offer. She adores the store and doesn’t want to lose her playground. But she longs to be normal and to be a regular kid playing outside the walls of a shop.

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Set in post WW2 Venice Italy, American Army Col. Richard Cantwell, haunted by the war, is a bona fide hero who faces news of his illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend a weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to facilitate a visit to his old haunts in Venice. As Cantwell's plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a remarkable young woman begins to re kindle in him the hope of renewal. Based on the last full-length novel Hemingway published in his lifetime, ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES captures a fleeting moment of immortality where time stands still. The story contains the great Hemingway themes of love, war, youth, and age.

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A young man with a bruised face is discovered in an airport. He says his name is Adrien Legrand, a child who disappeared 10 years ago. As he's finally reunited with his father, gruesome murders are piling up in the region.

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LITTLE BOXES was shot entirely on Zoom during the height of the Covid lockdown. Whilst deep into pre-production to shoot another improv-based film in the traditional, location-based sense, the pandemic struck our plans a fatal blow. Having no other option, we decided not to concede defeat and made the decision to create the best, most realistic project we could with what we had at our disposal, under the most difficult of circumstances. LITTLE BOXES is a drama about how governmental decisions during the pandemic affect the lives of ordinary people in a small corner of Northern England. This hyper-realistic, performance based film takes you on a journey through the world of video calling, observing the strain on relationships through these tiny Zoom windows - their own "little boxes" - and the pressures of enforced incarceration. Isolated by the virus, the whole world has had to find new ways to communicate and hold our loved ones close - these issues are universally relatable. The pain of separation. Together, yet apart. LITTLE BOXES proves that necessity is the mother of invention and that art will always find a way. The actor’s own lived experience of lockdown seeps through into their characters, alongside the mental pressures we were all buckling under. This enforced style of shooting created a safe place for the characters to communicate in a way that might not have been possible in a conventional filming environment.

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A disturbed mother distorts her adult son’s views of reality, locking him under a set of specific rules designed to keep him from leaving the home. Unable to leave and forced to undertake ritualistic tasks and tests, the son’s patience wears thin. His innate curiosity is heightened with the mental deterioration of his grandmother and the discovery of an unusual man in the basement, which threatens to disrupt the unnatural equilibrium that has formed within the home.

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No hiding from the true calling of your heart. A romantic drama with a sprinkling of politics and a mystical twist, TRUE CALLING is a contemporary tale of a successful young government minister who is faced with a moral and spiritual crisis as he heads into a national election. On the eve of a critical pre-election television debate that he is due to participate in, Josh Joseph, who is earmarked for continued ministerial success, decides, on impulse, to take a significant political risk. He disrupts his hectic electioneering schedule to leave London and drive to the north of England, in order to visit a female childhood friend, Maddy, whom he has not seen for 17 years. He has discovered that she is getting married on the day of the election and is sufficiently troubled by this news to feel the need to intervene in her decision. This inexplicably irrational action threatens his political career and leads to unsettling encounters with love, longing and regrets which will, inevitably, lead to profound changes in his personal and political life.

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When lockdown is imposed, the cast and crew of a film are taken from the set and sent home – alone. Actors without an audience. Directors without a script. Couples who fall apart. While others come together. A film composed of six interlinked narratives, 'A Bird Flew In' explores what happens when we are freed from external distractions and forced to find the meaning in our lives and loves.