Projects in genres: Drama and with status: Post-production

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LITTLE BOXES was shot entirely on Zoom during the height of the Covid lockdown. Whilst deep into pre-production to shoot another improv-based film in the traditional, location-based sense, the pandemic struck our plans a fatal blow. Having no other option, we decided not to concede defeat and made the decision to create the best, most realistic project we could with what we had at our disposal, under the most difficult of circumstances.

LITTLE BOXES is a drama about how governmental decisions during the pandemic affect the lives of ordinary people in a small corner of Northern England. This hyper-realistic, performance based film takes you on a journey through the world of video calling, observing the strain on relationships through these tiny Zoom windows - their own "little boxes" - and the pressures of enforced incarceration.
Isolated by the virus, the whole world has had to find new ways to communicate and hold our loved ones close - these issues are universally relatable.
The pain of separation. Together, yet apart.

LITTLE BOXES proves that necessity is the mother of invention and that art will always find a way.
The actor’s own lived experience of lockdown seeps through into their characters, alongside the mental pressures we were all buckling under. This enforced style of shooting created a safe place for the characters to communicate in a way that might not have been possible in a conventional filming environment.

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A disturbed mother distorts her adult son’s views of reality, locking him under a set of specific rules designed to keep him from leaving the home. Unable to leave and forced to undertake ritualistic tasks and tests, the son’s patience wears thin. His innate curiosity is heightened with the mental deterioration of his grandmother and the discovery of an unusual man in the basement, which threatens to disrupt the unnatural equilibrium that has formed within the home.

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No hiding from the true calling of your heart.

A romantic drama with a sprinkling of politics and a mystical twist, TRUE CALLING is a contemporary tale of a successful young government minister who is faced with a moral and spiritual crisis as he heads into a national election. On the eve of a critical pre-election television debate that he is due to participate in, Josh Joseph, who is earmarked for continued ministerial success, decides, on impulse, to take a significant political risk. He disrupts his hectic electioneering schedule to leave London and drive to the north of England, in order to visit a female childhood friend, Maddy, whom he has not seen for 17 years. He has discovered that she is getting married on the day of the election and is sufficiently troubled by this news to feel the need to intervene in her decision. This inexplicably irrational action threatens his political career and leads to unsettling encounters with love, longing and regrets which will, inevitably, lead to profound changes in his personal and political life.

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When lockdown is imposed, the cast and crew of a film are taken from the set and sent home – alone. Actors without an audience. Directors without a script. Couples who fall apart. While others come together.

A film composed of six interlinked narratives, 'A Bird Flew In' explores what happens when we are freed from external distractions and forced to find the meaning in our lives and loves.

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Miss Khan Ab to Hans Do is a feature-length film that comments on the communistic set-up. It dwells on the vital issue of old-age people being surrendered to death and everything begins with a journalist and her living mannequin.

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A scientist is overwhelmed when her mother dies suddenly, willing her a Christian bookstore in The Bronx.

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The bittersweet, comedic and heart-warming story of Academy Award winning actress Patricia Neal’s marriage to best-selling children’s novelist Roald Dahl.
Set between New York, England and Los Angeles at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on Dahl's struggles to write some of his most famous works and Neal’s return to acting with 'Hud', for which she finally won an Oscar.

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An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbours, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

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Now in their 50s, four friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilling her dying wish. With lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements thrown in their way, they must put old feuds aside to complete the journey within five days and remind themselves that they are still at their peak.

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Two strangers stranded in the Scottish Highlands on Christmas Eve team up to try and get home in time for Christmas. Based on the acclaimed short film of the same title.

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Yiling is detached but determined. She lives in a little flat in London with her cousin, opposite in spirit – grounded, but lost. When Yiling lands a job as a receptionist at an estate agency, at first she thinks it’s a dead end job. But then she discovers that the agency has on its books the flat once belonging to a serial killer. While the other agents scorn it, she discovers the flat could make her money… a lot of it. But what ensues is a surreal underworld of misfits all looking for a connection in a big city.

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When activist Perween Rahman is murdered, her sister Aquila returns to Karachi Pakistan to investigate and finds herself caught up in powerful forces intent on stealing the city’s water.
Based on a true story, INTO DUST is the fiction debut of Oscar-winning director Orlando von Einsiedel (THE WHITE HELMETS, VIRUNGA).