Projects in genres: Comedy

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When love-guru radio host Casey Nova realises he doesn't have a date for Valentines Day, he sets out to find one - but the tricks he preaches on air don't work so well when he tries to put them into practice.

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A modernisation of the classic Western The Magnificent Seven. The Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team. The Mexicans run a Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are local thugs.

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John Hale suffers from a terrible run of bad luck, until a surreal opportunity arises for him to reverse his fortunes.

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The personalities of two women pensioners come into focus as they team up for a challenge: Rowing the most difficult boat ever devised: The Pair.

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The Parking Place takes parking of cars to the next level in a form of a riotous situation Comedy about two men, Dr George and Peter, who quarrel over a parking space! The men, from opposite end of the social spectrum, end up in the same predicament with hilarious and dramatic consequences.

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Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.

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Shot on location at the world famous music festival 'T in the Park', American pop star Adam, and minor British rock chick Morello, are playing at the same music festival. The only other thing they have in common is their mastery of sarcastic wisecracks so when they meet backstage, the sparks inevitably fly. As their childish spat escalates, a mischievous preacher, who happens to be passing by, handcuffs them together as punishment, before disappearing in to the crowd with the only key.

All attempts to break free are thwarted as the prospect of performing on stage in handcuffs together becomes a reality, never mind the prospect of having to go to sleep side by side later that night.

Respective band mates and romantic partners are caught in the crossfire but can only look on as Adam and Morello begin to realise there is no escape.

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Dreams, squirrels and videotapes. A man dreams of a squirrel and then - backed up by a battery of machines - mounts an inquiry into the apparition of squirrels in other people's dreams.

Traumdeutung is about tapping into the global reserve of dreams while crossing the border between documentary and surreal.

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Tom is forty. He walks out one day, rather abruptly, on his wife and baby boy and his seemingly happy life. He finds himself living on the streets of London. One night alone in a park he is mistaken for a gay man and is set upon by a gang of violent thugs.
 
In A and E the next day Tom meets Aidan, the happiest, fast-talking individual you are ever likely to meet, the complete opposite of Tom. Too polite, or too weak to ask him to leave him alone, Tom tries to get away from this child-like man but with little joy, Aidan sticks to Tom like glue. Tom reluctantly becomes involved in Aidan's life and he quickly realizes that Aidan has problems too. Aidan's 'girlfriend' Linda verbally and physically abuses him on a regular basis.

Will Tom overcome his own problems in order to help his new 'friend'? Will Tom ever make it back home - and why exactly did Tom leave home in the first place?

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Miguel goes to see his ex-wife. He is happy, life is great. Paula is not happy. And she has another ideas about divorce.

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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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It is 1985. Thatcher is in power, Sade is on the radio and the print workers have gone on strike. But nothing will ever put a dampener on a group of close friends that meet every Sunday in their regular South London pub for alcohol and free flowing banter of the highest order. It is at one of these sessions that a man approaches their table and asks the most intriguing question.

Does anyone want to buy a racehorse?

From that simple but surreal question unfolds the story of The Mumper. Set against the backdrop of a changing way of life as Rupert Murdoch moves the printing of his newspapers from the traditions of Fleet Street to the computers of Wapping, this is a tale of seven firm friends, spanning three generations, who embark on a unique journey that eventually leads them to gamble all of their savings and redundancy money on a single race.