Projects in genres: Drama

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The encounter of two very different people. When a young woman is unexpectedly met by a stranger, we watch her surprise grow to terror as she navigates the encounter. Who will escape unharmed?

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Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime,disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and pompous consultant Cowan, as well as the patients. However the sister backs him when she realises he is treating her charges as people, not patients, talking to them and involving them in musical entertainments and sporting activity. Soon Whitehall are sending him all their spinal patients and, with visits to the pub and wheelchair sports taught by an army sergeant, he becomes the men's hero. With the war over Ludwig organizes national wheelchair sports competitions which will in turn lead to the establishment of the Paralympic games. An end title informs that in 1966, now a British citizen, Dr Guttmann was deservedly knighted for his part in bringing hope to the hopeless.

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A unique comedy in which three idiots attempt to stage an epic. The Bubonic Play is the story of a maid, her master and a wandering minstrel caught in a tragic love triangle. It follows their journey across the plague-ravaged English Countryside in search of a cure for the disease. Lord George of Ponsonby is in love with his young maid Mathilde. She discovers a handsome minstrel bathing in the river and they run off together. Enraged, George vows revenge and sets off to intercept them. The story survives all assaults from the actors' need to be the audience's favourite. Love, songs, magical potions, deception, knife-fights, stampeding rats, Punch and Judy all feature before the play's dramatic climax. They die. All of them. One by one.

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RACHAEL the young protagonist is always looks on the bright side of life but seems to be having the worse day of her life. The story is about hope. The old man is the spirit and bull of Newport, he talks to her about never giving up.

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As snow begins to fall over Christmas, Olivia arrives at the mysterious place Stowfield, where she forms an unlikely friendship with the peculiar teenager Spook, who helps Olivia to remember a timeless promise she once made as they hang on the cusp of an unknown future.

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Michael is a young Irish banker, whose life begins to unravel after causing a stranger's death in an accident. Sifiso is a teenager living in a shack in a Cape Town township, dreaming of escape. When their stories unexpectedly collide, their impact on one anothers lives is far greater, and more surprising, than either could have imagined.

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A day caught up in the murky slipstream of a North London pub.

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After a catastrophic accident, Martin is immobilised in a neck brace. He's put next to Harold in hospital. Harold chats, conjuring images of the seascapes which initially annoys Martin but brings him out of his pain. When the old man dies, Martin discovers how Harold helped him to heal.

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Following a nuclear fallout, a scientist and a broken spirited soldier discover that plant life has begun to grow again after spending years living in an underground settlement dying of radiation poisoning.

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A charming and surprising film about a boy on a quest to take a tree seed to the ocean. During his adventure he is helped by animals who show him the way.

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Seventeen year-old twins Kristen and Owen are so wrapped up in their own world that they’re misfits in the real one. Viciously witty, they spend their days caring for their mum Maureen and taking the piss out of their rough estate. They love Maureen but dream of murder and escape.

Along comes Liam – twenties, tough, handsome, full velocity in a cobalt blue Subaru. Kristen fancies him with fairytale intensity.Then Liam takes Owen out drinking. Owen knows as much about pubs as Kristen does about men. Liam invites Owen back to his apartment. “Just for a laugh”, Liam suggests that Owen try on some women’s clothes he happens to have.
It’s a Cinderella moment. Owen transforms into a beautiful, sexy woman and finds the world – and Liam - attracted to him. Liam is a romantic, offering unconditional love. So what if he has to dress as a girl?

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In a deep forest, the statue of Venus stands alone. The winter snows end and the ice melts into the river. As the spring arrives, David and Eros, are installed besides her. Venus instantly falls in love with David. While dreaming Venus becomes human and realizes David also loves her. Eros' jealousy alters the love triangle dramatically into a tragedy.