Projects in genres: Drama

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Adnan, an imaginative ten-year-old Syrian boy, has fled his home country with his mother after the rest of their family were killed and their neighbourhood destroyed. Now settled in the UK, he must use all his creativity to break through his mother’s PTSD or risk losing her forever.

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In marketing and the retail sector, data analytics is widely used to profile and micro-target consumers and to predict behaviour. The ultimate goal, apparently, is for humans to be able to outsource all decision-making to machine intelligence. What is at stake within the political realm?  Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2019 - Winner, ZONTA Award Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Create Strand

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In the middle of nowhere, a toll booth operator with a disdain for conversation and a mild lactose intolerance meets a customer at a turning point in her life.

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Spending his last night as a civilian in his dream-like local tennis club, Michael, a young British soldier confronts a glimpse of the near future waiting for him on the other side of the night. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020 - International Competition

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Barry wants to have vicarious immortality through his children but finds he can’t have kids. His friend invites him to a private club of which he is second in line, The Ancient Order Of Nocturnal Immortal Phlebotomists Of Albion, whose members live forever by sucking the blood of others. However, their membership is literally dying out because of their rare blood group – B Negative. Barry tries to help with their marketing, something he has never done before, and carries out various unpalatable tasks in return for gaining true immortality.

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A man gets a job delivering leaflets in an attempt to straighten out his life but a chance encounter with a childhood friend sends him down a self-destructive path.

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Alone and invisible to the world, a homeless man and the ghost of a little girl discover they are each other's only hope of finding peace in time for Christmas.

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The writer Deborah Levy imagines a lost lecture written by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.  It investigates an hysterical woman dancing through time, snow leopards lapping milk in the kitchen of Freud’s last house, and a journey under the ground on a ghost train.

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A non-linear narrative film that focuses on the emotional turmoil of a woman, as she attempts to escape from her dark past. As the events in her life unfold, we discover how and why she has ended up on the run alone in Manchester.

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A business traveller strikes up an unusual relationship with a hotel chambermaid. After a night of adventure, the relationship sours, and he discovers she is not what she seems.

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An LGBT grey comedy about a hapless, borderline narcissist who blames everyone else for his problems, and who knows that he isn't where he wants to be in life, but can't be bothered to do anything about it. Sam spends his days bored at his unfulfilling office job, where he's more interested in trying to get the attention of the guy he likes than he is about actually doing his job. He can't quite stay broken up from his ex, as he misreads his desire for casual sex as him wanting to get back together. And as his best friend becomes more successful in both her career and relationship, the two find themselves drifting. He realizes he can't just float on by in life and he's faced with losing his job and apartment and when met with the bleak prospect of moving home with his parents Sam is forced to look at what he really wants and who he really is. A painfully honest look at trying to get your shit together, when (you think) the whole world is against you.

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On a magical night, a woman creates her ideal man, but all is not as straightforward as she hoped. YouTube link to full film