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

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Captured as an elephant calf, Mangal encounters both love and loss as he is made to join the world of humans. Transported from one place to another, changing hands, he ultimately becomes a revered deity worshipped as God, yet tied in chains, until he decides to break free.

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Complicated and disillusioned, TIME Magazine war correspondent Erin Ryan finds redemption for herself and reconciliation for a nation when she uncovers a compelling story of the fights, football, and friendship of three boys of different faiths in the heart of present-day Jerusalem.

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Explosive family dynamics in the McGarvey clan, are mirrored in gritty 1979 Glasgow environments, in this high energy punk music feature film.

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A mother storms out with her dog after fighting with her husband, heading to her brother's distant home. As a blizzard engulfs the region, her husband and son lead an urgent search effort with help from the community. Adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s short story 'A Long Winter'.

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Anna, a maverick journalist, forms an unlikely friendship with an Islamist terrorist hellbent on bringing vengeful murder and mayhem to London. The clock is ticking for the battle of Hearts and Minds. Will hatred or peace prevail?

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Following two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they tackle love, loss and financial uncertainty amid the societal expectations of 18th-century England.

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Four chapters in the tumultuous life of the celebrated and controversial 20th century US intellectual, writer, philosopher and political activist Susan Sontag, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography 'Sontag: Her Life' by Ben Moser.

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A famous pianist's retirement to Ireland takes an intriguing turn when his housekeeper recounts their history. Concurrently, an abandoned well becomes a focal point, shrouded in tales of enchantment, violence, desire, and retribution.

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Lollipop (the sweet sounding name of a mastectomy scar) explores the creator’s surreal odyssey of tackling breast cancer. Twice. Her avatar, Eva, slips into youthful memories of seaside attractions and sunshine, which morph into something dark and corporeal as she juggles family life and illness. The film is in development with the BFI and NI Screen.

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1810. Two governesses embark on their dream of opening a school for girls on the edge of Scotland’s capital, their chance of an independent life is threatened by the arrival of a new pupil, an orphan, and her aristocratic grandmother. As the pressures of class, race and deeply suppressed emotion build at Drumsheugh boarding school, a series of tragically avoidable events lead to the telling of one irreversible lie. At a time of great social conformity – accused of lesbianism – the resulting scandal leaves the teachers fighting for their livelihoods. Based on the book 'Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired 'The Children's Hour'' by Lillian Faderman.

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A photographer travelling around Iceland with her partner unexpectedly ends up on the run with a hitchhiker’s baby, forcing her to confront her own feelings about parenthood, and pushing her to the very edge of survival.

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George Best was one of the greatest footballers who ever lived. But he was so much more than that. Although the football pitch was his arena, Best was essentially a pop star - young, stylish, strikingly beautiful, possessed of a creative confidence that bordered on arrogance, and worshipped by young men and women alike. Like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. This film is simultaneously a celebration of a genius and an exploration of the demons that brought him down. We all know how these biopics traditionally work: in this case a talented but innocent young man from the backstreets of a divided but still pre-Troubles Belfast, becomes a star. But his time at the top is agonizingly short: a family history of alcoholism doesn’t help, in those pre-drug Sixties everyone wanted to buy him a drink, and before he was thirty, he was a washed up drunk. But we’re taking the Benjamin Button approach here. No-one wants to go out on a downer, with the end card telling us how many hundreds of thousands lined the streets of his home town to bid him farewell, along with the millions watching on live television.