Projects in genres: Drama

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Making It is an original and quirky comedy-drama following one man’s search for love, creative fulfilment and a pencil sharpener. Making It provides a uniquely British take on the challenges faced by today’s thirty-somethings as they try to make their mark on the world. George Banbury is a 33 year old struggling actor best known for having appeared alongside a troll in a Wine Gums advert. Stuck in a rut and living with his parents, George is going nowhere fast. An unexpected pregnancy and a chance encounter with an ex-girlfriend sees George attempt to expose his inner leading man to a world that has already cast him as a supporting artiste. Funny and painfully honest, MAKING IT will resonate with anyone who has ever asked themselves, "is this really it?"

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After learning from her father that she will soon lose her place on the local boy's football team, eleven-year-old Kirsty struggles to come to terms with her evolving identity as a young woman.

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Stutterer is a poignant, sometimes funny, but ultimately heart-warming story about a very quiet man with an awful lot to offer.

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Lucas (Adam Napier), a photographer, meets the enigmatic Cleo (Sally Scott) in a small English seaside town. They appear to be on a date. En route to a hotel, they encounter a variety of oddball characters, including a priest who has lost his faith, a travelling salesman and a Shakespeare-quoting drunk. Once at the hotel, however, the real reason for Lucas and Cleo’s meeting starts to become apparent… Shot in long takes with a fluid camera, culminating in a near-silent final half-hour, Sean Martin’s intense drama is a gripping study of two people bound together by a fatal vow.

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"The striking and brutal realities of the students struggling for food, shelter and medication. Mimi's death from TB - and her illness unnoticed at first even by her closest friends - cannot but send a chilling chord in our modern world." A Cape Town-set reworking of Puccini’s La Bohème, sung in Xhosa (with some English dialogue). 'Breathe Umphefumlo' sees director Mark Dornford-May (U-Carmen eKhayelitsha) reunited with singer Pauline Malefane and the Isango Ensemble. Berlinale 2015, Berlinale Special - World premiere

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When Shelly meets Rachel, two dysfunctional girls from radically opposed backgrounds set off on a collision course that will leave one of them shattered, the other re-born. Set in the forsaken wastelands of Cheshire's little-seen urban overspill, 'The Violators' is a meditation on the meaning of home, and the potency and fragility of young girls' sexuality.

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A gritty urban drama set in Manchester's Moss Side area.

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For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South UK bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold War, territories were respected out of the necessity to avoid apocalypse, with each side covertly keeping tabs on the other’s capability. Such a precarious false harmony could not last forever. Now someone has crossed the line, and there’s no going back. An Illicit love affair smolders, breaking taboo and threatening catastrophe at the smallest mistake. It is a romance of purest, unadulterated love, yet so forbidden that it’s discovery would wreak unbridled carnage. Edinburgh International Film Festival - World premiere

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To the outside world looking in, Jack’s not well. Brooding, disheveled, troubled, he’s been in and out of secure units all of his young life, had every drug they can think of, every treatment they can throw at him but nothing seems to work. Not because he doesn’t want it to, there’s nothing he’d like more than to live a normal life and be left alone. But as far as Jack is concerned there’s nothing wrong with him, it’s them - the dead - they’re the ones who won’t leave him alone. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Residents of a fictional Welsh community share stories and poems of their life in their seaside town. An adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ much loved classic of modern British poetry. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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When an encounter with the swinging scene has an unexpected impact on David's impotence, Alice thinks she might have found the solution to all their problems, but the poly-amorous world is a difficult place for a love story to flourish. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.