Projects in genres: Northern Irish

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Nineteen-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy (aka Tony McCoy) has notched up more than 4,300 wins, 700 falls, 40 broken bones and a BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2010 across a near 25-year racing career. This documentary follows AP in the final year of his extraordinary career as he fights to become champion for an unbelievable 20th time and faces a future out of the saddle. Made with exclusive access to the Northern Irish jockey, his family and racing teams for the 2014-15 season. Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Meet Brian, a Belfast storyteller, for a trip down memory alley and his colourful tales of the highlife, the lowlife and his cat. But in Brian's world things aren’t always what they seem and we soon discover his extraordinary optimism has been shaped by dark events.

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'The Survivalist' is the near future story of a man eking out a meagre existence on a secluded smallholding deep in the forest. When a starving woman and her teenage daughter discover his farm, his loneliness drives him to strike a bargain with them in return for bed and board. But as desire becomes stronger than necessity, the exchange becomes an uneasy, ongoing arrangement which threatens not only his carefully constructed world but also his life.

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Rally driver Shane Hunter faces his comeback to Group B competition after a long and troubled absence.

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“The secret Life of Balloons” Written By Nina Graham ) Directed By Nina and Lauren Graham Produced by Lauren Graham Actors: Chris Grant Holly Hanaway Filmed in Northern Ireland Helens Bay County Down Summer 2014 Short Film 10 Mins Log Line: Sometimes there’s only one thing left to say and only one way to say it. Synopsis: The Secret Life of Balloons explores the parallel journeys of a boy and his girlfriend at very different stages of existence. Left lost and believing they’ll never connect again, this uplifting short film asks questions about the boundaries of love, life and letting go. This is the first short film undertaken by sisters Lauren (age 18) and Nina (age 16) Graham. Inspired by the Australian Theatre for Young People's Fresh Ink playwriting development programme, which collects the best new monologues together to be performed as The Voices Project. Nina wrote the original monologue as a dramatic piece of creative writing for a school assessment on the topic of love and loss. The sisters then adapted the piece into a short film project that was undertaken during the School holidays as they waited for external exam results. Together they managing to raise and utilise a small budget recruit a great team of friends to help shoot, compose music, edit and perform the work. The end result has been an exciting journey and taken them in a very different direction from the original work. The finished work has both surprised and delighted them from an initial idea of loss and despair they have managed to capture an uplifting film of loss and love.

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Jamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted dad presents them with two baby chicks. Raising their tiny charges, declaring themselves vegetarian and dreaming of running a chicken farm, the boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.

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Are there any such thing as miracles? Mickey McGuigan, a lively 73 year old farmer turned writer, has been documenting those he’s come across, along the Northern Irish border. The stories may defy logic, but people swear by them. This is a disappearing world of pagan folklore and magic. There’s a man who cures cows that suffer from ringworm, by just spitting on them and then there's a woman who can heal babies screaming with the colic by tying a piece of string. One healer has a six month waiting list because people believe he can cure anything, even cancer. A film that explores the thin line between faith and doubt.

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Cold Open is part of a series of films shot over a year, 2007 in the environs of the Waterworks (Queen Mary's Park), in north Belfast.

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On a difficult journey across the Irish Sea a woman in trouble meets a young girl in the same predicament.

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A boy wants to be a comedian but his father, a judge, is unintentionally his worst audience. He sentences himself to step into his son's shoes but they're secret shoes. A dirty sacrilegious film about comedy and love to scar your heart.

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A contemporary drama of fear, loss jealousy and rejection set in real time and filmed on 31 January and 1 February, at the time of Imbolc. They say people come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime and when you know which one it is, you’ll know what to do. For Brigid Liston and her son Quinn, such a person comes in the form of American anthropologist, Janet Hattridge, on sabbatical researching her Ulster Scots roots and her family’s link to a long forgotten witch trial. As the relationship between Janet and Quinn deepens, Brigid’s mother dies. Brigid’s grief sets her on a path that ends in tragedy and as her actions unfold, the past reveals itself.