Projects in genres: Comedy

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How to Sound Design Your Life
The Foley Artist sees a master of sound at work on a fashion film. If you’ve ever wanted to see the chasm between the finished product and the extraordinary lengths taken to produce it, this short is for you.

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Chronically ill Anna is visited by Doreen, a door-to-door proselytizer who makes herself at home and stays the day, slowly defrosting her non-welcome. Together, they walk in the park, bake a cake and watch an Ingmar Bergman film. Both women are blind, played by blind actors in this existential comedy.

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Alice is in the passionate embrace of her young lover as she finally succumbs to temptation. But when her husband James unexpectedly returns home early, Alice finds herself in an emotional minefield. Wracked with guilt for being unfaithful just as James offers an olive branch, while simultaneously negotiating her lover’s escape.
Official Selection Cannes 2015 - Shorts Competition

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As simple-minded John's mother embraces the world of internet dating he finds himself pressured to get out and develop relationships himself. A threatening encounter leaves John desparately in search for romance in order to 'fit in' with the lads from the pub, leaving devastating results of John's frantic actions.

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A veteran secret agent takes a young upstart under his wing.

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When Eilis is given the opportunity to emigrate to New York she jumps at the chance for a better life, even if it means leaving her family and home. Desperately homesick at first, Eilis soon finds romance in Brooklyn, but when a family emergency forces her back to Ireland, she finds herself torn between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special Presentations

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After a freak meteor storm turns Bob into a Superhero he must face his greatest challenge: going on his first date in six years.

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An uptight English businessman is troubled by reoccurring dreams of endlessly running for his life. He goes to see a Skandinavian Sleep Specialist who hypnotises him in an attempt to get to the root of his problem. What she discovers takes them both on a journey of unexpected consequence...

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A new craze is taking over the streets of London. With fights, street deals and territorial warfare growing ever dangerous, it won't be long until underground conker fighting is out of control.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Laugh Strand

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A filmmaker/cameraman produces a retrospective of his life's work and begins a journey into the darkest recesses of his mind. Through a combination of interviews with friends and family, film clips, archive footage and a video diary, we find a man in search of the truth - no matter how painful.

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Two hopeful new arrivals at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful quickly learn that there is only a single room left to rent.
UK release February 2015

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One night. One crypt... Eight notorious members of London's crime world are sent to guard a coffin in a graveyard crypt. Nobody knows why and nobody even knows what's inside the coffin. Once locked inside the crypt, it's not long before old grudges and rivalries flare up, making it impossible for the group to stick to their orders. The stakes are raised when it is discovered that a new vigilante in town is a vampire and could be amongst the group. One by one members of the group are mysteriously killed off. With no way out, a cat and mouse game of 'who done it' begins. But vampires don't really exist...do they?