Projects in genres: Drama

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In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family.
Official Selection Toronto Intenrational Film Festival 2018 - Discovery - World premiere

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When female homicide detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
'Out of Blue' is a neo-noir detective story, a metaphysical mystery revolving around contemporary Atlanta and the mysteries of the universe, in which Mike’s quest for the truth destabilizes her view of the world, and herself.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Platform - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Voices

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Set over the historic year when Robert the Bruce, the great 14th Century Scottish king, fought to regain control of his country.
A true David and Goliath story: Having been crowned King of Scots, and then defeated in a surprise attack and made an 'outlaw' by the English King and his occupying forces, the 'Outlaw King' used cunning and bravery to repel and defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere

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In a picturesque village in England, Joan Stanley, lives in contented retirement. Her tranquil existence is shockingly shattered as she’s arrested by MI5. For Joan has been hiding an incredible past; she is one of the most influential spies in living history…
Cambridge University in the 1930s, and the young Joan, a demure physics student, falls intensely in love with a seductively attractive Russian saboteur, Leo. Through him, she begins to see that the world is on a knife-edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to military supremacy. Post-war and now working at a top secret nuclear research facility, Joan is confronted with the impossible: would you betray your country and your loved ones, if it meant saving them? What price would you pay for peace?
Inspired by an extraordinary true story, a taut and emotional discovery of one woman’s sacrifice in the face of incredible circumstances. A woman to whom we perhaps all owe our freedom.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Violet, an aspiring singer, dreams of pop stardom as an escape from her small English town and a shattered family life. With the help of an unlikely mentor, Violet enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
Set in the world of pop music, a visceral and uplifting story about growing up, dreaming big, and finding your voice.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Gripped by a failing marriage and the responsibilities of having a young son, Lydia finds solace in her growing bond with the town’s recently returned female doctor Jean. But this is the 1950s in a post-WWII rural Scotland, and the womens’ relationship prompts raised eyebrows in their provincial circles.
A heart-wrenching portrait of a love against all odds.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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A young man's calculated reassessment of his infamous, and ultimately disastrous, childhood correspondence with an American television star. A decade after the death of the TV star, the young man, now an actor himself reminisces the written correspondence he shared with the star, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the village's last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2018 - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Winner, Short Cuts Award, Best International Short Film
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - International Short Film Programme
BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British Short Film

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A mysterious young British man (Dev Patel) journeys across Pakistan and India.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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By the 1920s Virginia Woolf has reached the apex of modern world literature with her landmark novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway', but nothing seems to soothe the darkness that plagues her. She is powerless over the mood swings that alternately lift her to manic creative heights and then crush her under suffocating melancholia, driving her deeper into seclusion... Poems and letters of admiration from Vita Sackville-West lead to a courtship that is hardly concealed from their respective husbands. Soon, Virginia is enthralled by Vita. She is everything Virginia is not – extroverted, direct, in possession of a strongly magnetic personality and, as Virginia notes, a pair of the most "amazing legs".
Focusing on the period in 1927-8 during which Woolf wrote 'Orlando', the novel their relationship inspired, 'Vita & Virginia' is the long-gestating feature adaptation of actor and writer Dame Eileen Atkins’ play of the same name.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Germany 1944: 15-year old Leyna, daughter of a white German mother and a black African father meets Lutz, a member of the Hitler Youth ­- compulsory for all Aryan boys since 1936. They are bound by the realisation of the horrors being committed against the Jews, as Leyna tries to avoid the fate of black Germans at the time. Can she find an ally in Lutz, himself battling the fate laid before him?
This is a coming of age story set in the most brutal of times.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Nestled between a beautiful lake and the Himalayas, Ashmina, 13, lives with her family at the outskirts of Pokhara Nepal, paragliding capital of the world. The remote and traditional town is also a busy tourist destination where the locals are profoundly affected by the swarms of tourists who visit it daily. Forced to skip school, Ashmina helps her family make ends meet by working at the landing field, packing the parachutes of foreign pilots in return of small change.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - World premiere