Projects in genres: Drama

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In a quest that traverses Europe, actor Stephen Fry, whose own family members died in the holocaust, explores his passion for Wagner - and questions whether it is possible to salvage Wagner's music from its asssociations with anti semitism and Hitler.

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On a perfect English summer's morning, Henry, leader, warrior, prepares his men for battle. Though it is the same battle they have fought before and the same they will surely fight again they will go, as always, for him.

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A dangerous erotic game begins for a private detective when he is called in to help a mystified beautiful woman found collapsed in the garden of a blind woman.

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A five minute animation based on an edited recording from a live performance by the comedian Adam Bloom.

The film demonstrates how his skills in improvisation, honed of years of experience as a stand up, come into their own when controlling a particularly boisterous London crowd.

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Alarm salesman Vic Timms heads for a two-day motivational sales course entitled Win Only Win in the hope that the programme will help turn his fortunes around. God - operating under the name Godfrey - decides to manipulate fate and throw Vic into the path of serial man-eater Mary Macdallen. It's a risky strategy and despite Godfrey's divine intervention, love doesn't blossom as expected.

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‘City of Dreamers’ delves into the music scene of Brighton to tell the story of a young girl on a journey to find herself.

Rose is an aspiring musician who moves to Brighton, keen to forget the world she has left behind, and immerse herself into the vibrant and creative cultures of her new City.

Through meeting new people, and inspired by her new surroundings, Rose strives on the path of self-discovery to reveal who she is, and who she wants to become.

‘City of Dreamers’ is the heartwarming tale of someone who chases their dreams of love, friendship and music, never knowing where they could lead.

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On Paradise Island the Crab family struggles to survives as father turns into a recluse and refuses to go fishing.

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In a post-apocalyptic world, one man wanders the derelict buildings until he comes across one grand building still in tact. He enters but upon doing so he comes across another man's personal treasure. A tale of two men and their fight to elude dystopia.

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'Frank' is a black comedy about a man who just doesn't fit in. He's fallen between the cracks he is always trying to avoid. We join him on his personal journey to hell and back, accompanied by a neurotic and opinionated couple of corpses and the map reader of his life and only friend, a young girl called Sasha.

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Based on the life of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, Fulll Firearms presents the story of Imelda, a woman haunted by the victims of the guns sold in her father’s company. She uses her inheritance to work with an architect who builds a house for these ghosts. When a group of people squat her half finished building Imelda is convinced that they are the ghosts that she expected.

The narrative touches upon themes of displacement and storytelling, and stands in the tradition of melodrama. The characters find themselves constantly having to adjust their expectations of each other so that they might be able to communicate within each other’s logic. In her films, Emily Wardill creates situations that examine conditions of precarity in society and how these affect people’s relationships with each other. Her films are fostered by improvisations and workshop sessions, that are set up by the artist to develop themes and characters in a collaborative manner.

“The house in the film produces an echo, because those who occupy it articulate their voices in relation to the making and writing of a history. Tracing the echoes of actions through the production of social spaces does not remain solely within the diegesis of the film. Instead, it extends to the exchange initiated by Wardill with her collaborators as they produce a film together, and also attempt to implicate the viewer in a film that is also a body – one that is constantly living and growing.” - Jacob Korczynski, 2011

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Newly homeless, Gracie is about to commit suicide. But at the last moment, as she hovers over the railings of Waterloo Bridge, a young woman, Ellie, runs onto the bridge. She begs Gracie to help her escape from a pursuer who’s just yards behind. Shocked out of her dark purpose, Gracie helps Ellie, and they escape. Walking the empty streets, Gracie thinks the threat is past and a tentative relationship begins between the girls. But as she finds out more about Ellie, Gracie realises just how vulnerable they still are.

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A young man, David (Alex Marx), takes his girlfriend, Sue (Tuyen Do), to meet his parents, Michael (Tim McInnerny) and Claire (Kate Fahy), for the first time. As the awkward afternoon progresses, it becomes clear they have all gathered to mark John's birthday -for the first time since his death.