Projects in genres: Fantasy

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BALLET POINTE SHOES is a short period fantasy and original fairy tale written by Gisela Pereira, inspired by the 18th and 19th century in England and the red shoes tale. It tells the story of a ballerina who breaks her pointe shoes and looks for a shoemaker to fix them. She encounters a magic shoemaker who is able to repair the pointe shoes giving them a life of its own.

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High-flying City lawyer, Amy Mustafi, moves into stately Winterstoke House in the English countryside following a breakdown at her work place, caused by the bipolar disorder she has battled all her life. Amy is charged with setting up the new family home while her husband Shayan ties up a business deal abroad.
A Romanian housekeeper and her young brother are engaged to help Amy run the house. They soon find a sealed off entrance to the former servants’ quarters of the estate. Upon opening the long-forgotten door, a string of seemingly supernatural incidents begin to occur.
Amy discovers the mansion has guarded a mystery for over a century. In 1914, three servants disappeared and the estate was swiftly abandoned by its former aristocrat owner, who fled never to return. She begins to obsess over solving the mystery, whilst unknowingly stoking her simmering mania. Is there something else at Winterstoke House with Amy? Or is it all a phantasm borne out of Amy's mental instability?

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The adventures of writer and magizoologist Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards, seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts' trilogy.

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A three-hander for two actors. Fergus wants his wife back. Jonah wants his mum back. But what does Harriet want? An emotional ghost story about what death makes us do to the people we love most.

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On the east coast of the UK, a researcher exploring a lonely part of the beach finds things turn sinister when she meets two young women who take her to a strange house with an even stranger inhabitant. But when L tries to uncover more of the mystery, things go very wrong.

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In a quiet country farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting.
Others will be joining them too: unwitting Essex boy Sebastian Crockett, whose promise of a night of passion with ravishing cougar Vanessa quickly turns into a fight for survival after she decides to introduce him to some of her friends - the coven of hungry vampires.
As if Sebastian's night couldn't get any worse, a heavily armed band of mercenary vampire hunters led by the steadfast Captain Bingham, crashes the party - and much like the vampires, they're out for blood.
It's going to be a night to remember.

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Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series 'Black Mirror' taps into the collective unease within the modern world. Each stand-alone episode is a sharp and suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia.
Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone — a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us.
LFF presents three episodes from the forthcoming third season of Black Mirror: Nosedive, San Junipero and Shut Up and Dance
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - LFF Connects Television - Events Strand

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Escorting the fiery young Annie Blake and her gang to the sheriff in Blood Gulch, bounty hunter Dalton discovers the remains of a horrific massacre and rescues its sole survivor, a preacher. Before long the group are fighting for their lives against a zombie horde that walks the desert plains eating all flesh in their path. And as the preacher’s secret unravels, Dalton realizes what he’ll have to do to prevent his wife being resurrected as one of the living dead.

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Angie, a desperate woman is forced to a dark place to seek the help of an enigmatic being. Both of them seek a future. It will all come down to the flick of a coin.

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A sci-fi noir take on the Alice in Wonderland tale.
Ana, an Oxford PhD student, finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who – or what - is behind the rising horror in her life.

Synopsis

Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series 'Black Mirror' taps into the collective unease within the modern world. Each stand-alone episode a sharp and suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia.
Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone — a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us.
TIFF presents two episodes from the forthcoming third season of Black Mirror: San Junipero and Nosedive
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Primetime - World premiere

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Experienced coroner Tommy Tilden and his grown-up son Austin run a family-owned morgue and crematorium in Virginia. When the local Sheriff brings in an emergency case – an unknown female corpse nicknamed ‘Jane Doe’, found in the basement of a home where a multiple homicide took place – it seems like just another open-and-shut case. But as the autopsy proceeds, these seasoned professionals are left reeling as each layer of their inspection brings frightening new revelations. Perfectly preserved on the outside, Jane Doe’s insides have been scarred, charred and dismembered – seemingly the victim of an horrific yet mysterious ritualistic torture. As Tommy and Austin begin to piece together these gruesome discoveries, an unnatural force takes hold of the crematorium. While a violent storm rages above ground, it seems the real horrors lie on the inside…
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Midnight Madness - World premiere