Projects in genres: LGBTQIA+

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Five soldiers prepare and enact a performance that alludes to the aggressively physical games of the British public school. Art Deco locations reference imperialistic ambitions that have determined the role of the ‘soldier’, and that have led to the racism and violence ‘exhibited’ in the Abu Ghraib images.

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A small town, a growing knot and a girl searching for her identity.

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An affluent young man arranges a threesome with a young chav from the local council estate and an ape from London Zoo.

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Two old university friends, Raj and Tom, escape their failing relationships on a boy's night out. As the evening evolves, insecurities and old rivalries emerge. When the friends finally reveal their painful realities, the consequences are both unforeseen and shocking.

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Visited by an angel a British soldier, recently back from Iraq, reflects on the war in the middle east and her feelings for another woman.

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Jim's throwing watermelons off his office roof, testing the effect for a possible suicide. But then there is Sammy on an adjacent roof about to jump herself. Together they set off searching for other ways out than down. Sammy's ex-boyfriend, Dean, an artist struggling with his creativity, needs a muse - and who better than Gina, the experimental prostitute with dodgy legs who lives upstairs. However, Dean soon finds out that Gina never does anything for free. Sexually confused Olly is forced to look after his deaf-mute brother Chris for the day. Not only does Chris have gay feelings too, but is more comfortable with them than he is. They embark on a searing quest through Soho's gay community to help Chris loose his virginity. No-one has more to hide than oldest brother Pete. He's being stalked by Carol, a timid old lady looking for her son - a guy Pete knew from his violent drug days.

Fearfully Pete opens his frozen heart to Carol and they begin a treacherous journey to find her lost son. By the end, each lost soul finds a solution in darkness or in light.

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From Sebastiane (1976) to Blue (1992), Derek Jarman’s films constantly interrogated time and art, and epitomised his own era. He was a painter, part of that moment that made sixties London a capital of the art world. He was a film-maker, perhaps the single most crucial figure of British independent cinema through the seventies, eighties and nineties. He lived as a gay man surfing the joys of Gay Liberation and the sorrows of Aids. He lived as a participant observer, noting with pen or camera all that passed before him - from punk to Thatcher, from Hampstead Heath to film premiere.

Now those images serve to place his art in his time, to produce a fascinating history that we can put to use. As well as the feature films and Super 8 films, which span three decades, there are the extensive video clips he recorded from the early seventies, for artists from the Smiths to the Pet Shop Boys, and from television to film festivals in Japan, Berlin and Cologne.

At the centre of the film is the time capsule that Derek left. Before his death, and in the midst of that great creative period that would produce Edward II, Caravaggio and Blue, he recorded a day long interview in 1990 with Colin MacCabe. It is his message in a bottle; a survey of his life from the point of view of his death; a talisman for the future.


 

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Young people follow the legacy of the iconic 2 Tone record label in their home city of Coventry. The city's most famous musical export being the band The Specials, who had the hits 'Ghost Town' and 'Gangsters'.

The film was made by Leofric Films and GYGL, funded by First Light Movies.

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A masterclass of minimalist expressionism by a class master. Dave Heron provides 33 classic expressions as a unique guide for all budding actors, two faced gits and prospective brazen liars.

'Dave taught me everything I know about acting' - L. Olivier.

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How much would you reveal for love? Oh Happy Day is a gay romantic comedy about two guys who have a one-night stand - the weekend before they start working together.

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Yorkshire, England 1952. Ruth Ackroyd, leaves the monotony of her work in her father's textile mill on a Friday afternoon, and secretly takes the train to Manchester. There she meets a man on the platform, but all is not what it seems.

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A short thriller in which a young man’s physiognomy betrays his past, drives his destiny and influences the dynamics of his new relationship when he gets more than he’d bargained for.