Projects in genres: Woman Director

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For men in particular there is a glut of stereotypes about what mid-life is supposed to look and feel like. Set against these social stereotypes The Middle Men reveals the emotional and material worlds of 8 English middle-aged men and how each is confronting life's circumstances on their own terms.

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What goes around comes around? John is a small-time crook who buys a gun from the proceeds of a drug deal. Phil and Spooner have their own problems and to make matters worse they get ripped off. Everyone is after Mickey, but who will get there first?

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A consistent, original, beautiful and tender tribute to avant-garde artists Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. Unique couple who influenced generations in Britain and abroad. A poetic travel through their lives.

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Third Star is the story of four young men, friends since childhood, who take an ill-advised camping trip to the farthest reaches of the West Wales coast.

James has been diagnosed with a terminal illness so he and his friends know that the trip will be their last together. They use it both as an opportunity to experience the joy of a group adventure and to resolve the latent tensions that affect the group.

The results are touching and funny, leaving an enduring sense of the courage and the dignity to be found in James and the beauty to be found in the friendship between him and the three other men.

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What's the difference between love and lust? Between physical and emotional need? Can we ever know? Does it even matter?

In the final ten minutes of a therapy session a man speaks to his counsellor about the feelings he has expressed for her. He hopes they may be reciprocated. But the therapist questions the source of both his emotions and her own subconscious feelings, and the possibility that transference can work both ways.

As we transfer our attention from one point of view to another we ask why we love the people we love and if there is any reason not to.

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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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Gerald Wells stole his first radio, a Belmont, in 1943 at the age of thirteen. He was immediately sent to an approved school, whose psychiatrist diagnosed an obsession with wireless and electricity, an obsession that continues today.

The house Wells was born in and still inhabits is now home to over 1,500 wireless objects and 45,000 valves. Analogue Kingdom is a poetic portrait of Wells, founder and curator of the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum. It reveals the charm of Wells' world, where radio relics and their attendant stories fill every nook and cranny.

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A real life RomCom starring Mills & Boon devotees from across the world.

Demure Japanese housewife Hiroko yearns to be swept off her feet by a dashing David Beckham look-alike. When she takes up ballroom dancing lessons with dishy Mr Iijima, will fantasy become reality?

Feisty Indian princess Shumita has grown tired of playing the victim since her debonair husband left her for a younger woman. Deep down she knows she's the true love of his life and she's out to get him back.

Single Mum Shirley has finally found true love with her very own hero. But her knight in shining armour has his dark side: together they must find a way to hold onto their happy ending.

Sexy romance cover model Stephen can get any woman he wants. But he won't settle for anything less than his 'eternal flame' and he's having trouble finding her.

Glamorous author Gill Sanderson delivers five Mills and Boon titles a year to her devoted readers across the world. However, Gill is in fact Roger, a pensioner writing from a small caravan in the Lake District.

Five heroes, four continents, one dream of true love. Because real life begins where Mills and Boon ends.

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An 18 year-old girl arrives at St Andrews University in 2001 to find an alien world of glossy, upper-class girls intent on seducing their fellow student Prince William. Isolated, she finds hope in a mysterious boy who wears a silver jacket.

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In the land of Frumania, Appleby Cox's-Pippin is forced to begin a journey in search of 'being the same' as his shallow,fellow Frumans; but a harsh lesson awaits him as to what really lies close to the Fruman heart - greed.

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Lonely ten year old Stella's world changes when a strange young man enters her life with heart-breaking consequences.

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In the darkness of a stalled underground, something swaps the feet of two strangers. As one is a rugby player and the other ballet dancer, it's not going to come out well for either of them.