Projects in genres: Drama

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Yoof Projekt is a black comedy about the inner workings of youth work, the kids and the council. Shot as a mockumentary, the film centres around a youth project being filmed for the council and follows it as it becomes a pawn in a power game.

Hapless Council, Hopeless Management, Hopeful teenagers and Haphazard Youth work at it's best and worst working with disenfranchised young people to help them better.

Yoof Projekt is a satire looking at adults' attitudes towards teenagers and young people. the film follows the exploits of Middle-brook city council employee’s as the they attempt to engage the hardest to reach teenagers in their fantastic new youth project specifically designed to curb the excesses of the modern teenager. An arrogant film director is employed to capture and document every moment of the process. Hapless management have already written off the aims objectives and shockingly the outcomes. It is then left to a few disgruntled youth workers to make a success of managements wishes and work with the disenfranchised young people and help them better.

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Youth comprises of three observational vignettes. Filmed in a naturalistic style, this short focuses on the minutiae of adolescence.

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127 Hours is the new film from Danny Boyle, the Academy Award® winning director of last year’s Best Picture, 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
 
127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days, Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued.
 
Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet? A visceral thrilling story that will take an audience on a never before experienced journey and prove what we can do when we choose life.

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An afternoon football game unexpectedly turns into a gruesome bloodbath in this revenge tale based on an actual 2007 crime. Militants gun down a group of children playing in an otherwise quiet Baghdad suburb, causing the entire community to turn on itself. Akram, the brother of one young victim, seeks vengeance.

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A family portrait goes horribly wrong as jealousy and suspicion bubble to the surface under the photographer's relentless gaze. As the session reaches a disturbing conclusion, it's clear that this truly will be a day to remember.

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During the 17th of August 1992 two ordinary men, Garry and Colin, had an extraordinary encounter that propelled them into the unfamiliar realm of the paranormal.

A70 is the disturbing yet compelling true story of what happened to Garry and Colin that fateful night and the terrifying events that unfolded over the following months. Based on the reported facts, A70 recounts what at first appears to be a brief encounter with a strange object on a Scottish road, but nightmares and strange visions slowly reveal that something far more sinister occurred during what to them seemed only a few seconds. As the men search for answers their world is ultimately torn apart by what they discovered.

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In the non too distant future, society seems to be devouring itself in a vacuum of materialistic consumer greed manifesting itself in a disease like plague turning ordinary people into savage, zombie like, sub-humans.
 
Jacob, a young aspiring journalist together with his girlfriend Laura, a young attractive self assured, yet vain, it-girl go on the trail of the Tempter, a figure-head in the media reported to be responsible for the decline of the social order.
 
As Jacob's search for a story takes them out of their comfortable, frappucino filled world and into the seedy underbelly of Britain’s backstreets, low lifes and eventually the decaying Eden Estate, cracks begin to appear in their co-dependant relationship driving a rift between them.
 
At a cross-roads fighting for not only his relationship, sanity and survival, Jacob is left with three pivotal questions;
 
Who is The Tempter?
 
Does the Tempter really exist?
 
And if so, is the Tempter truly responsible for the impending armaggedon, or is there a more darker, more sinister, more simple truth to it all?

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Archipelago is a quietly devastating portrayal of a family in emotional crisis.
Edward is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia and his sister Cynthia decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell trip to say goodbye to Edward.
Hired cook Rose and painting teacher Christopher, though bought in to help, only serve to bring the family's anxieties into sharper focus. When the father's arrival is delayed, the unspoken forces of absence and loss bring the family's buried anger to the surface.

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Edward, Susan and their son Lino live a nice life in the suburbs, having all that their bourgeois life can afford. Then, one day and without warning, stinky, brown, doughy 'stuff' starts appearing outside their expensive and luxurious home.

Despite the son's pleas to get their hands dirty and clean it up, the parents insist that that is 'someone else's job'.

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A film inspired by the Victorian inventor Charles Babbage, a man equally famous for inventing the computer and failing to build it. Part historical drama part fantasy, the film introduces us to those Babbage loved and lost. Babbage's story is one of inventive genius, failure and loss focusing on a time which gave birth to the modern world.

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Two teenagers accept a mission to become part of the local gang but find themselves over their heads dealing with drugs, S&M, a Rottweiler and a stolen bike.

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Carl (13) is a child in foster care, growing up is difficult enough but he has no proper family life. After many moves he arrives, settles in and is happy at his new foster home. Suddenly the same old problem crops up. How can he stop it ever happening again?