Projects in genres: Comedy

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In the latter half of the Twentieth Century a group of maniacs were assembled for the sole purpose of home video entertainment.

Brought together by a sinister consortium these maniacs are forced to battle each other with little to no regard for human safety. Like Gladiators they fought until only one remained. This is that story. This is The Maniac Project.

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The Savage Canvas is about a theatre director with big ideas who finds his radical new performance piece being undermined and ultimately taken from him by a self possessed precocious school girl.

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A Scottish community.

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While most of us sleep, the heroes and villains from the Golden Age of televised British wrestling grapple against the odds to make it home safely from a night out on the tiles.

Set predominantly onboard an iconic red London double-decker bus, this is a journey into a colourfully skewed world of oversized men, ill-fitting leotards, Boston-Crabs, Half-Nelsons and the unforgiving whims of the British public transport system.

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A five minute animation based on an edited recording from a live performance by the comedian Adam Bloom.

The film demonstrates how his skills in improvisation, honed of years of experience as a stand up, come into their own when controlling a particularly boisterous London crowd.

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Alarm salesman Vic Timms heads for a two-day motivational sales course entitled Win Only Win in the hope that the programme will help turn his fortunes around. God - operating under the name Godfrey - decides to manipulate fate and throw Vic into the path of serial man-eater Mary Macdallen. It's a risky strategy and despite Godfrey's divine intervention, love doesn't blossom as expected.

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Cinedrome is a mockumentary about a fictitious disease, cinedrome. After exposure to certain films, sufferers become infected by aspects of these films. In this way, film is able to infect audience members. Marie has 'lost her continuity', Godfrey suffers from 'soundtracki-itis' and Chris has contracted 'animania'.

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A black comedy, Luca, an Italian fish out of water must do a hit for real to please his beautiful, crazy wife Beatrice... can he really do it or will a dog, a farmer and the dangerous English countryside get in his way.




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'Frank' is a black comedy about a man who just doesn't fit in. He's fallen between the cracks he is always trying to avoid. We join him on his personal journey to hell and back, accompanied by a neurotic and opinionated couple of corpses and the map reader of his life and only friend, a young girl called Sasha.

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Getting dumped always hurts. Even more so when your boyfriend sends his fourteen-year-old brother to break the news.

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A darkly comic and fabulously grotesque tale of greed, curiosity and fatal attraction.

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A young couples' marriage hilariously hits the rocks during a weekend in the country.