Projects in genres: Scottish

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Set on and around the poorest place in the USA, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Rez Bomb is a love story/thriller about a Lakota girl and a white guy who are very much in love but get into trouble with a brutal money lender and must bail themselves out.

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Sacrificed is the story of Amber, a dowdy student who buys a dagger in an antiques shop, with the knife comes Sybilinka idol. The idol soon posesses Amber sending her on a blood thirsty killing spree. She eventually invites all her female friends over to her newly aquired mansion house where they have the sleepover from Hell.

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Snowtime is the sequel to the multi-award winning short Fetch. We re-join Colin as he takes Cumberland for a walk in a snowstorm. Colin complains about the weather while Cumberland does his best to ignore him.

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The Stone of Destiny was used for centuries in the coronations of the monarchs of Scotland until it was captured in 1296 by Edward I and taken to Westminster Abbey where it resided for over six and a half centuries. Stone of Destiny tells the true story of how on Christmas Day 1950, four Scottish students took the stone from Westminster Abbey, hid it in Kent for a few weeks before returning it north to Scotland. It is based on the book The Taking of the Stone of Destiny, written by Ian Hamilton, the leader of the students.

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The Clan gives a unique insight into a dark world of crime, corruption and violence lying deep within the Scottish Highlands. The story unveils the existence of two feuding crime families that have evolved from ancient Scottish Clans, The McKinleys and the McNabs. The film focuses on the relationship that has blossomed between the two youngest members of each Clan, Cal McKinley and Nicole McNab, struggling to cope with the daily brutal savagery they are being forced to endure. When they decide to run off together, they realise that escaping from the claws of their Clans would never be easy.

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Sue is the kind of guy who irons his pants and understands the use of the apostrophe; Kylie, his younger brother, has spent years trying to ignore him; but what will happen if Custer comes back into their life? Does he deserve one last chance? This darly comic film follows the emotional journey of two brothers. From morning through to night as they try to come to terms with their relationship with their father who stumbles back into their lives for a moment one dark Christmas night.

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Business is war and war is Hell. Two executives engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Only one will triumph. The Eskimo. Or the Wolf.

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Trouble Sleeping tells the story of a Palestinian refugee, Ahmed, and his struggle to survive and remain a good man. He is about to be deported from the UK and be forced into a return to the Middle East which is fraught with danger. Halla knows a secret which can save him but he cost of revealing that secret will be terrible for her. Trouble Sleeping is based on the true stories of refugees in Scotland.

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Alex and Mari are highland lovers living in a caravan in the west of Scotland. Their relationship is held together by emotional gaffer tape and plagued by Alex losing his job, getting it back again, and then losing it. 'Trout' is a kooky tale of what happens when a bizarre chain of events shakes up their quiet life.

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This final degree film deals with themes of metamorphosis, the Uncanny and dark urges. It's a stop motion cathartic exploration of dream or reality.

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A man finds himself dumped by a countryroad at night. Trying to find his way to the city, he meets a stranger who seems to exert magical control over people and soon turns his attention to the lost man. Can this stranger get our man’s life back on track?

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16 year-old Kelly Ann gives birth to a baby boy, which she is immediately forced to give up for adoption. Six weeks later, in an attempt to get over the emotional upset, she goes on an overnight hike with her church youth group. The group is joined by 18 year-old Lee, the father of Kelly Ann’s baby. Kelly Ann isn't pleased to see him. The rest of the group become worried when Kelly Ann starts thinking she hears a baby crying on the moors. But they do indeed find a baby abandoned in a ruined castle. As they hike back to take the baby to safety, the group is stalked by a wild beast which begins to pick them off, one by one. 'It's gonna kill us all.' 'Not if we kill it first.' The chase begins.