Projects in genres: Drama

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Johnny, a small time crook and Marie, a dissatisfied shop assistant are both looking for a fresh start. Greta and Pearse meet in extraordinary circumstances on a bridge overlooking the city. With Greta facing a terminal illness and Pearse with a bounty on his head, this unlikely duo fall unexpectedly, helplessly in love before fate and circumstance take over. A wayward corpse and this unlikely love story all compose the jigsaw puzzle as the night's events expertly fall into place, weaving an existential portrait of our characters' lives as their hopes, fears and secrets are revealed.

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A raw compelling passionate love story set against the backdrop of a highly cinematic Liverpool, to a searing soundtrack.

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A coruscating drama, based on an award winning novel, which explores the troubled relationships between the various members of an English family over a long summer when Eleanor, the stroke-afflicted old mother decides to give away her beautiful house in Provence to a New Age Foundation run by an Irish charlatan rather than to her own son and his young family. The story is told from the point-of-view firstly of Robert, an eight year old boy, then his increasingly drunken father, Patrick and also finally Mary, his long-suffering mother as they all struggle to come to terms with the loss of something they love desperately but increasingly realize will soon be gone forever. It is both a funny and moving tale of family discord.

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Winner of Film London's 'Best of Boroughs' award, Physics is a film about finding hope in the most hopeless of places.

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Quartet tells the story of Reggie (Courtenay), Wilf (Connolly) and Cissy (Collins) who reside in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Each year they stage a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday, which also raises funds for the home. Reggie's ex-wife Jean (Smith) arrives at the home and creates tension, playing the diva part but refusing to sing in the concert.

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A chance encounter between a shy, introverted woman and a loud, over-confident teenage girl takes a deeper turn when personal secrets are inadvertently revealed, and confessions take the place of pleasantries.

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An old lady gets conned into buying something she couldn't possibly want by a slick salesman

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Flying Blind is a passionate post-9/11 love story that confronts cultural, racial and sexual taboos. It tells the story of an impossible love: an older woman with a younger man, in a world where security is paramount and nothing is quite what it seems.
Frankie works for a major aerospace manufacturer, designing drones for the military. She’s at the top of her game and in total control of her life. When she meets Kahil, a French-Algerian student, much younger than her, she embarks on a passionate affair and for the first time in her life she utterly, thrillingly, loses control. One morning, when she arrives for work, she’s detained by security and told that Kahil is a person of interest to the security services. She discovers that she has unwittingly crossed a line from control and security, into a nightmare world of suspicion and accusation. She now realises how little she knows of this man. But her love for him proves stronger than her mistrust, and she tries to find a way to protect her lover. Finally she discovers to her cost that betrayal always comes from those closest to us.

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New York, 1929. Craving forgiveness from the brother he cannot forgive, Hirsch is haunted by a sense of guilt that extends far beyond the four walls of his tenement apartment.

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Anonymous is a short fiction drama film that follows a middle-aged, professional woman called Helen on a night out. Her encounters; accidental and otherwise tell us more about her situation and in the morning after, things are not exactly how they seem.

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Cal returns to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill in hospital. His finds that his home city is like many across Europe and the world, it's facing hard economic times and fallout from the global economic crisis, rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence as youth unemployment inexorably rises. His Auntie Jane, who has taken up residence in their run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually gratify herself by trying to seduce him. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his helps. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible.

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When Anne fails to return home, her blind daughter Sarah begins to realise that the world she knew is actually her worst nightmare. Hostage to her mother's insecurities, she ultimately uncovers her macabre plan to prevent her ever leaving her side.

A chilling tale of dark secrets and maternal obsession.