Projects in genres: Comedy

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Making Waves is a romantic comedy about a group of disparate ham-radio enthusiasts. These include a lonely video-store owner, a drunken Russian cosmonaut marooned on the space station Mir, a paranoid conspiracy nut, a Californian surfer and an elderly Welsh priest. Two of them exaggerate who they are on the air-waves assuming they'll never actually bump into each other. Unfortunately, when they fall in love with each other's imaginary personas things start to get complicated - especially when they find themselves having to meet face-to-face and are forced to try and live up to their fictitious alter-egos.  

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A space probe sent from Earth arrives on Mars to explore. What does it discover? Is there life on Mars? Houston, we have a problem.

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A boy's dreams of becoming a great filmmaker a brought to an abrupt end by nightmares suffered after making a monster movie starring his pet dog Max.

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Mischief Night is an exuberant, wild and contemporary comedy drama about two families (one white, one Asian) who come together unexpectedly on a local night of carnival trickery and festivity.

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A man sits down to watch television, but his TV has other ideas. First it floods his picture with static - then when the man gets violent, the picture dissapears completely. When it returns, everything is different.

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Celia came to London to make her fortune but then she met her boyfriend Rob. He lives his life to a different tune. And there's also the problem of his brother Conrad. A short film about the inconsistencies of love.

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A wannabe filmmaker Ben at the Cannes Film Festival pretends to be a yacht owning big producer in order to try to impress a hopeful actress Laura. His plan works well to start with, but she eventually sees through his facade, and he discovers that she has a secret as well.

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'These girls are gorgeous and they’re sisters.  I’ll be damned if Al Qaeda is going to ruin my sex life!'  Dinner ingredients: two lonely guys, two Naked-Volleyball playing sisters. All that stands between the guys and girlie paradise are the ginger-haired terrorists tied up in the living room.  

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A TV crew doing a story on the problems of noise from low flying jets in the Welsh valleys meets its match in the shape of a smiling single parent family on the ground and a heroic fighter pilot in the air.

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In 2058, two apathetic friends run the night shift in a 24-hour convenience store. Robert likes the Japanese girl who works the day shift, but in spite of encouraging signs from her, he won't - or can't - act. Instead, Robert and Steve discuss their views on life. Winner of Gold Hugo for best short film at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival. 

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On the Greek island of Patmos, St John the Divine had a vision and wrote The Apocalypse. The cave in which he lived and worked still stands, and archaeologists from all over the world have explored these hills and valleys for 2,000 years in search of great historical treasure. Now on this sun-splashed island Katerina careens her bicycle down a steep hill while her nine-year-old daughter, Agapoula, exhilarated, hangs on for dear life. Katerina is unmarried, owns the village taverna, and lives a fulfilled if simple life. The last thing she needs is an unsettling romance, but that's exactly what she's about to get. Down in the harbour, the ferry pulls in to the docks. Tourists, shoppers, locals returning home stream into the village - and one stranger, Eric, an American archeologist who has come to the island in search of a lost biblical artefact that his father had searched for in vain. Tierney, the resident archeologist and local character, shows Eric the ropes. When Eric and Katerina meet - Opa! But the course of true love is never straight, and soon Eric determines that the ancient chalice he seeks is most likely buried right under Katerina's beloved taverna. The Mayor and the townspeople want the acclaim and tourists that the chalice will bring - Tierney needs further funding to keep his ongoing project alive - and Eric wants to fulfill his (and his late father's) life-long quest.

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An actor from the East Midlands is starring in a Panto down in Croydon. He is sacked from the production in suspicous circumstances. Sensing his theatrical career is over, he hires a z-list video director and his crew to make a showreel about him - as he wishes to reinvent himself as an action movie hero for the millenium. As the action unfolds we see that the movie industry is an industry of egos, tears, tantrums and poverty.