Projects in genres: Welsh

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Claude Cahun’s iconic photograph ‘Don’t Kiss Me/In Training’ was inspiration for a two line poem, a fractured couplet revealed and hidden throughout this piece about intimacy, tactility and the projected theatre of how it feels to be together. A game involving dressing up, repeated, with love. Training for feeling.

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Margaret John swaps the foul mouthed Doris in Gavin and Stacey for a touching portrayal of Cleo, a woman living in all times but the present.With Bon Iver's haunting 'Wolves (Act I and II)as a soundtrack,No More Milk gives an intimate view of life and death behind a closed door.

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Jasper races to the airport to stop the girl of his dreams from leaving and just makes the last train. As Jasper talks to a stranger about his romantic gesture though, doubts about what he's doing start to grow.

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Casimir Effect is a story of unrequited love set on a backdrop of temporal paradox. Dr Alice Sharpe has a choice to make, stay with her true love and risk the collapse of the space time Continuum, or take more drastic measures to ensure all of creation isn’t erased. Alice is thrown through time and into her own past. She finds her true love in Dr Robert Cameron, however if she embraces this love she risks a paradox that could undo all of creation. She must lay low and buy her time until she can find a way to fix things. Cromwell Jackson has knowledge of Alice sent back by his future self. He is most insistent that Alice and Dr. Cameron comply with his wishes and allow him to gain a technological dominance, even if the cost is the end of time itself.

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It is the summer of 1976, the hottest summer in living memory, and keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on a school musical of her version of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. To get the kids engaged, she weaves the play around their favourite pop songs, using the hits of the day by artists as diverse as David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Dusty Springfield and Electric Light Orchestra. The music is sung and performed by a fresh and enormously talented group of young actors led by rising star Aneurin Barnard. The result is a film that is in turn touching, life affirming, funny and nostalgic, and a love letter to the music of the period.

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A boy is looking for love. His goal is to find an interesting, pretty and smart girl who makes he feel in love. The special one, his dream girl. For this reason, he will meet with three different girls in three different places.

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When five ordinary guys from a Welsh fishing village are offered the deal of a lifetime all hell breaks loose. This hilarious plot follows Barry and his friends as they smuggle drugs worth ten million pounds in cod shipped to London. The deal was simple, the Firm's boss Mr MacAvoy sends two of his men on a stakeout to recover the rest of the drugs. The two kidnap a prized sheep from one of the Welsh gang, shave it and dress it in women’s underwear and tie it to a bed. A ransom note with a photo is left at the farm. When a coach load of unsuspecting Japanese tourists arrive at the village and purchase cod with the missing cocaine inside, it only makes things worse. The London Firm are convinced the tourists are Yakuza, Japanese mafia trying to muscle in on the deal. When Barry and his friends take a trip to London dressed as gangsters they manage to save Agnes the sheep and con their way out of the deal. When a London Firm writes off five million pounds how would you spend it?

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A man alone, awakes to noises. It is the day he has been informed that he is to die. Nervous and shaken by proceedings he decides to film his last day, but what wants him dead, and is it something he can defeat?

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In 2004, aged UK punk rocker - Johnny Jones of the famed Welsh 80's band 'The Weapons Of Happiness' - hoodwinked top record labels, radio DJ's, and the entire rock music world by releasing his new punk-pop single under a fictitious band name. After being rejected by his former record label for being too old, Johnny passes off the single to a Radio DJ and says it's by a young, unknown Welsh rock band he is managing. Much to everyone's surprise, it receives immediate air play. Johnny and his old band assemble a rowdy bunch of teenagers to be the face of the song and through the process teach them how to have true punk rock spirit. The emotional core of the film centers on Johnny's relationship with his wife, Jules - an aged groupie who feels the heavy hands of her biological clock ticking away. The film chronicles this outlandish moment in music history from Johnny's point of view, and recounts his tumultuous journey with his wife.

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Falling in love only lasts as long as a piece of string.

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Existing within the possibilities of the theatrical and cinematic frame, a figure enters the spotlight feet first - a 'starlet' born by breech. She moves as a figure in flux of femme fatale and demoiselle, meshing the physical architecture of cinematic suggestions of these two archetypes.

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In a late night bar, a man is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the recently severed 'manhood' of Wales' great vocal entertainer. Believing he can make his fortune selling the item onto obessive fans, the man purchases the appendage - setting off a series of bizarre events that leads him deeper and deeper into the sick and secret world of celebrity body part trading! An intimate comedy of legendary proportions for anyone who's ever made a dick of themselves!