Projects in genres: Comedy

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Rosie Dean doesn’t look like a typical Morris dancer, but something about her local group has drawn her in to the extent that she has cut off all contact with her friends and family…

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A pregnant woman takes revenge, embarking on a killing spree that is both vicious and funny. For ruthless Ruth, will motherhood lead to redemption, or destruction?
“I wanted to write something which defied that image of the pregnant woman as this safe, sweet, kind person… I felt like motherhood is a crazy, interesting experience and it’s rarely seen on screen." (Alice Lowe)
A dark British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe, who writes, stars and directs, all whilst genuinely 8 months pregnant.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand

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Stephen arrives home after six months in Mongolia to discover his best friend Roy has replaced him with a ventriloquist's dummy called Roger.

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Gabrielle is writing an illustrated guide book on sex, taking inspiration from childhood fantasies, past partners (male and female), and her current relationship with a younger woman.
Professional curiosity leads her to Saul Bernard, an established writer, whose sexually charged narratives have seeped into her secular Jewish attitudes ever since childhood. The more Gabrielle tells him about her book, the more he wants to mentor and shape her success.
Gabrielle rebels, yet as the book takes form, Saul presses on. Is he jealous or desirous? Gabrielle breaks free of his patriarchal mentoring and goes it alone.

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Failed comedian James Mullinger comes to a crossroads in his life; no one wants to see him perform, his wife is fed up, and his day time boss has given him an ultimatum - take a promotion and never do stand up again, or stick to the comedy and lose his job.


To add salt to the wound, his boss, the editor of COQ, wants him to interview the greatest comedians in the UK and North America for an upcoming comedy special. The recollecting of his worst performances and the disasters that followed, James analyses where it all went wrong, and finds himself steering the interviews to his own interests, rather than that of the magazine’s. Through spending time with his former heroes, a faint glimmer of his passion for comedy that once stirred within begins to emerge.

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Set in a post-apocalyptic 1950s. The Fitzroy hotel, a derelict submarine beached just off Margate, is the last place for a traditional summer holiday. Bernard, the hotel’s bellboy, cook, maintenance man and general dogsbody faces a constant battle to keep the decaying hotel airtight and afloat.
But when he falls in love with the scheming femme-fatale Sonya, he is thrown into a web of lies, backstabbing and chaos. As his world implodes, Bernard must choose between the woman he thinks he loves and the hotel submarine keeping them all alive.

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One woman's struggle to stub out love's flame.

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Three friends discover £100,000 and use it to go on a spending spree and throw a huge party, unaware that it belongs to a gangster.

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Each believing the other to have drowned, identical twins Viola and Sebastian seek their fortune amongst the high society of Illyria. With a host of memorable characters William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night tells a tale of love and ambition with a series of mistaken identities and misplaced affections.

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A mockumentary catching up with David Brent (Ricky Gervais) of 'The Office' fame 15 years after his redundancy from Wernham Hogg.
A documentary crew catches up with Brent, now working as a travelling salesman, as he chases his dream of rock stardom by self-financing a UK tour with his band Foregone Conclusion.

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Would-be stand-up Dolly Diggs suffers from stage fright. To overcome her fear, she plans to become a ventriloquist and thinks she found just the puppet to help. Enter bold, brassy, sassy and sickening, the sequinned killer under two feet tall, Connie. But she's no ordinary puppet… She’s a living doll.

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Two women with opposing ideas on what is 'Public' and what is 'Private' lose their shit in very different ways.