Peter is fourteen. Mary is fourteen. Bob behaves like he is fourteen. Bob lives in Crawley. Peter doesn't. Mary wishes she didn't. Together they would find out very little.
Charming black comedy about a shy young boy forced to deal with the death of his best friend. By using his fertile imagination and passion for electronics, the boy temporarily resurrects his friend. However, things start to change when the dead friend takes on a life of his own.
The film follows the story of a young boy named Will who is so traumatised by his mother's death that he retreats into silence. One day he meets Randall, a friendly but flatulent talking goose, who helps him regain his voice. However he soon discovers that the school principal, Congreve Maddox, is fattening up the goose in preparation for the Gourmand Gastronomique, a Christmas cooking competition. Will and his friends hatch a plan to kidnap Congreve's mother for ransom and the caper begins.
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione return as teenagers to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.
A modern urban fairytale, Kingdom is the story of an accountant (Simon Kirk) who unwittingly stumbles on a centuries-old plan by a duplicitous feudal lord (Peter Campbell-Orde) to claim the crown of a kingdom ruled by dragons.
With its ambitious mix of live action and complicated computer-generated images, Kingdom is a tribute to writer-director Kenneth D Barker's perseverance and resourcefulness. Determined to make a film that would stand out from the crowd of Tarantino-wannabes and have a wide consumer appeal, he decided to shoot the film on digital video directly for the video sell-through market because it would be quick and cheap. He teamed up with model-maker and special-effects designer Gary Rowntree, who suggested combining rod-controlled puppetry with CGI to create the dragons.
By spring 1998 cast and crew were in place and Barker sent out a business plan to potential investors via the Yorkshire Association of Business Angels. Barely 10 days before principal photography was due to start, an anonymous businessman came forward with enough cash to see the film through to post-production.
The film, which, with its images of dragons flying over the Leeds skyline, certainly seems to fulfil Barkers original aim, is available to order from Barker's website www.wotr.co.uk. He is now working on two projects which he will write and produce - the period sci-fi The Last Great Adventure and the futuristic 2642AD.
Little Voices is a film with children who are displaced and victims of violence in Colombia. This film is driven by real children's stories, and drawings which are animated using computer animation. The result is a unique and powerful hybrid of documentary and computer animation.
The countdown is on - in 7 days' time Britain converts to the Euro. It's the biggest opportunity the criminal world has ever had. Billions of sterling head for the incinerator. When a railway heist goes wrong and an enormous bag of money falls from the sky into the hands of Damian and Anthony, there's only one thing to do - spend it like there's no tomorrow.
But how can a 7 and 9 year-old hope to spend a quarter of a million quid a week? Anthony's black market operations bring hyper-inflation to the school playground and Damian wants to help the poor, but they're in short supply. Oh, and the train robbers want their money back.
Will they manage to spend the money before it's worthless. Will the school authorities discover what's going on? Or will the robbers get there first?
Two inner-city schoolgirls, Shaya and Monique, jump on the bus to go home. Monique sends a text to a boy they met at the weekend. Being best friends, the girls do everything together and share everything - up until this moment. Monique gets her first proper date and Shaya isn't invited.
Penny Collectors is about two children with nothing much to do and no one else to play with. They meet on a beach one summer's day and decide to go on a quest for pennies, to buy sweets, to try and make themselves sick.
Fighting over a television remote control, an eight year old girl and her little brother break a window. Mum will soon be home. What will they do? What will they tell her?
The two of them come up with a quick scheme to sort out the grave problem at hand; an emotional roller coaster that marks the end of their innocent cosy world. In the next ten minutes big sister comes up with the perfect plan and to her surprise, little brother becomes her unquestioning follower, or so she thinks.
Set on the day of the solar eclipse. A young boy returns home to a less compassionate reception from his father, while a woman struggles to see her daughter.
