Projects in genres: Drama

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We follow a young woman ‘Nita who would be the first of her family to go to university in the UK. But her dreams are thwarted by both her own mistakes and her widower father’s desire to move the family back to Iran. She runs away to the seaside in hope of escape…

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On a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it's the young Polish captain's first command. His mutinous Chinese crew suspect him and his unscrupulous Boss of planning to scuttle the ship for an insurance scam. When the crew abandon ship, the young captain is left alone on board, helpless, anchored in a bay. That night while waiting anxiously on deck, he finds a naked body floating in the sea below, tangled up in the ship's rope ladder. Pulling the ladder, the captain discovers a Chinese woman in distress. She climbs on board, saying only "Hide me". Dawn comes a few hours later and so does a search party, looking for a murderer...
Inspired by Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"

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Set in North London, Still is a gritty and atmospheric thriller about the violent disintegration of a man and father. Tom Carver is a man stumbling blindly towards a crossroads in his life, thrown out of focus by the death of his teenage son a year earlier. He becomes involved in a feud with a teenage gang after a seemingly harmless collision with a young kid. This feud becomes gradually more horrifying as Carver’s life starts to unravel until a disturbing climax.

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Set during the 1986 World Cup when Northern Ireland met Brazil in the finals, the film tells the story of the Northern Ireland team’s momentous World Cup performance that year, through the eyes of players, fans (including a 10-year-old boy from East Belfast) and journalists. The film also includes the ‘wit and wisdom’ of Brazilian footballer Socrates de Souza.

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Set in Dublin, the film follows a close knit group of twenty-something friends as they are forced to confront the reality of lives and friendships which have gone unchallenged and unchanged since their teenage years.

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Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer, despite a nationwide dancing ban.

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Set in 1960s London, Blotter is psychedelic exchange between a doctor and his patient as they trip on LSD. What seemingly feels like a normal conversation between a housewife and her therapist melts into a trippy projection of ire and lust.

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In 1848, Phineas Gage suffers an unspeakable brain injury when a tamping rod plunges through his skull, causing dramatic shifts in his personality. His physician Dr Harlow watches over his recovery and must choose whether or not to fight for this outcasts place in the local community.

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Wandering loner Ray tries to track down his estranged ex-partner and teenage daughter so his dying father can see her one last time. Comedy ensues when, disguised in an outfit he sought from a charity clothing bank, realises his daughter, and her mother, have built a new life with his former PE teacher.

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A man stuck in his endless loneliness wanders in a post-apocalyptic world...
Only to discover he is not alone.

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Gloucestershire, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world’s first smallpox vaccine.

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Returning to the island she left eight years earlier, young Mairi plans just to attend a funeral and then go back to her job in the city. But she forgot about the "bannan" - the family and emotional ties that bind her to her birthplace. Staying on to care for her beloved grandmother, Mairi gets drawn ever closer towards a confrontation with the father who never accepted her.
A feature-length Gaelic-language pilot for the 2014 BBC ALBA drama series 'Bannan'.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere