Projects in genres: Comedy

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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.

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A fantastical story about a man who won an apartment. After some time living there, he finds himself slowly rejected by the space as it shrinks. Stubbornly, he stays, but as the wall close in on him he is faced with the uncertainty of the outside.

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Lorraine believes there's a lost portal to another world in Essex. As she explores time and space with her friends and family will she be proven wrong or be vindicated? “This film will be a Cult Classic” Tim Noakes- Edior, Dazed and Confused “The craziest thing I’ve ever worked on.” Ceephax Acid Crew – Dance Music Producer In this brand new subgenre of surreal British comedy filmmaking, Lorraine Willy of Planet Earth believes there's an ancient lost portal built by Amen Rah somewhere in deep Essex that leads to Sirius. As she explores, time, space and greasy chicken wings with her friends and family, will she be proven wrong by those who think they hold the secrets to her madness or will she be vindicated in her unstoppable quest for the truth?

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Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more! Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie reunites Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley as the iconic Edina and Patsy, along with the rest of the original cast that includes Julia Sawalha as Saffy, Jane Horrocks as Bubble and June Whitfield as Mother.

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One Saturday morning, a middle aged couple decides to make love in their car in the driveway to put a spark back in their marriage - only to find it has rather the opposite effect..

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The inhabitants of a Scottish island try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a nearby stranded ship. A remake of the beloved black and white original film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios, which was based on the novel by Compton Mackenzie, which itself was based on the real events of 1941 when the S.S. Politician was shipwrecked in the Outer Hebrides leading to an hilarious battle as the wily islanders on nearby Eriskay tried to salvage the huge cargo of whisky on board, enraging the British authorities. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere