Projects in genres: Drama

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Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Lynette, a young rough sleeper sits in the cold waiting for loose change to fall on her lap; but her luck seems to change when she meets Frank who despite his misgivings, offers her a place to stay. Their relationship blossoms. For the first time in years he sobers up and life takes on some meaning.

But Lynette is not all she seems. Recruited by her drug dealer boyfriend, Danny, to find a new base for his dealing, she has targeted Frank. When her genuine fondness for him and their emerging friendship takes her by surprise, she attempts to break away from her previous life.
Such fragile happiness can't last - Danny reappears. As Danny tightens his hold on the house and its inhabitants, Lynette begins to slide into addiction and fear. Frank’s battle becomes as much for her safety as his own.

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Two female friends are on a mission to rediscover the heady days of their youth. At a late night, isolated party in the countryside one of them discovers this might be more difficult than she imagined.

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Tom is perceived as having everything: a great career, a beautiful wife - an ideal life. But behind this façade of perfection, Tom is living a lie. When his wife threatens to leave him, Tom's tightly wound composure finally cracks. He lashes out and the consequences are something to be
reckoned with. Tom is sent to prison and his life, as he knew it, is gone forever. After losing his job, his wife and his identity he is forced to start afresh alone. Self-doubt and loneliness now seem to dominate his days. What is he going to do with the rest of his life?

He eventually befriends a young girl called PJ and his life seems to regain a bit of colour and warmth from their slowly ensuing friendship. But then Tom meets his beautiful French neighbour Inès. A tender connection develops among them. This quietly mysterious woman intrigues Tom. When he finds out about her life, it finally puts everything in Tom's own story into perspective.

There might be damage, but there is always hope.

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Kenneth's life isn't going according to plan; He's just been fired from his job, a strange creature that only he can see has sinister plans for him, his girlfriend Kim is acting really strangely, and she isn't crazy about Kenneth's new best friend, Peter, a tramp who's on the run from the army!

Kenneth will have to battle with his new friend, his malevolent monster, his ex-boss, an army of policemen and his own troubled psyche before this story reaches its sweet and curious conclusion.

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A young homeless girl is taken into care. Set in an urban wilderness, this film is an offbeat and touching experimental drama about East London kids.

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The fear of getting old and the world losing its infinite possibilities grows everyday for Henry, and working in a nursing home serves as a constant reminder that a powerless future is dawning. Following an encounter with one of his former charges, Henry reconnects with himself and those who love him.

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Lily and Nina have been out all nigh on E and are now recovering in their favourite all night cake shop run by Amir also the local drug dealer. The previous owner Bobby is back from her majesty's pleasure and wants his cake shop back.

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Remake of Tomas Alfredson's acclaimed Swedish film 'Let the Right One In'.
 
Bullied young Owen forms a friendship with his strange, but intriguing new neighbor Abby, unaware he's inviting a vampire into his life. As the town begins to suspect her involvement in a string of gruesome murders Owen must decide between the life he knows and protecting his new friend's dark secret

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Thirty-three year old Chris Hopkins has a wife, child and works 9 to 5 in a respectable office job. Resentful of his mundane existence, he believes his son to be a burden and struggles to look at his wife with lust after 15 years under the same roof. He feels like something is missing and longs for change. Surfing adult sex sites when he should be working, he soon discovers a woman that he truly connects with. She listens to his problems, dresses like he wishes his wife would and she likes to talk dirty. How long can he hold out before fantasy and reality collide?

Lie With Me is an erotic thriller that explores the seedy world of adult sex sites and the consequences of one man's journey to find sexual fulfilment.

This 20-minute digital short film was shot on the increasingly popular Canon 5D Mk2 camera with a budget of less than £1,500.00. It is writer/director Nick Padley's debut short film and was shot entirely in West Yorkshire.

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A mother takes her three children on a road trip but finds that home cannot easily be left behind.

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Lipstikka is a psychological drama which depicts the emotional and sexual bond between Lara and Inam, two Palestinian teenage girls from the West Bank. In the midst of the political turmoil of the 1st Intifada, they decide to break the curfew imposed by the Israel military, and sneak into the Jewish part of Jerusalem to see a movie. What begins as a youthful prank, soon evolves into a twisted set of events.

Fifteen years later, they meet in London as adult women, and realise that what they remember from their past may not necessarily reflect what indeed happened. [A UK/Israel co-production]

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A teenage boy uses his hearing impairment to escape his daily routine and the responsibility of looking after his wheelchair bound little brother.