Projects in genres: Drama

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A corporation plans to develop a residential tower block into luxury city apartments. As the residents galvanise, the corporation sends in someone to 'shake them up'. The Horror of The Dolls features a strong ensemble cast, inter-twined narratives and an iconic piece of London architecture. The narrative is underpinned by the wealth divide, untouchable high-finance, malleable politicians and the resolve of a community under assault. All wrapped in a blood-soaked and stylised horror thriller set against the breath-taking cityscapes of contemporary London. The Horror of The Dolls is a terrifying, atmospheric and unpredictable journey for the audience. Key influences on the project are The Shining, Blue Velvet, The Wild Bunch, Short Cuts and Antichrist.

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Grace Walton is kind to a stranger, Danny, in Rome who offers to help her get home but his past catches up as they hitchhike across Europe.

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The Man Who Walked is a man under stress and in a confused state of mind. He breaks down and walks away from everything without a word to anyone. The only thing he knows he must do is keep walking. When he finally comes to his senses and makes his way home, he can't imagine how it has affected his wife or what comes next!

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The Mortician is a contemporary urban noir shot in digital 3D. The story of a man coming in from the cold, stepping from darkness to light. A man returning to the human race. A tale of revenge and retribution that is both soulful and brutal. The banking system is failing, and the city is bankrupt. The poor are corralled into lawless ghettos. The crime rate soars, but as long as the violence doesn't spill into their fancy backyards, the politicians don't care. In the decaying city, he processes corpses with a steely disregard. His work is conducted with a ritualistic eye for detail and an unyielding adherence to routine. The Mortician (Method Man) is alienated and cold. Emotionally isolated and lonely, his work is his purpose, his fascination with taxidermy his only distraction. An insomniac, he walks the deserted ghetto streets at night, watching the creatures of the night go about their business. The Mortician is a contemporary urban fairytale, one that triumphs kindness over cruelty. A story of reconciliation and hope in face of violence and darkness.

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One morning. Two points of view. Will today be the day? Laura desperately hopes so. Otherwise it's just another morning dealing with Alice, her overbearing mother. A film that weaves oil-painted animation with live-action film, to peel back the layers of consciousness and reveal one family's dark history.

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The Parking Place takes parking of cars to the next level in a form of a riotous situation Comedy about two men, Dr George and Peter, who quarrel over a parking space! The men, from opposite end of the social spectrum, end up in the same predicament with hilarious and dramatic consequences.

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In a wild, desolate landscape, an old man saves a boy from drowning. Thinking his dead son has returned, the man takes the boy home. The boy's parents, thinking he's been snatched, hunt the man down. When they discover the truth, the man is offered a chance of redemption.

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In the aftermath of World War 1, an expectant bride from a well-to-do family marries her young lover. No happy-ever-after tale this, and The Tenement Ghost draws us swiftly into a sordid world of violence and despair. Yes, it begins well enough, the couple embarking on a grand European honeymoon, but the groom's thirst for alcohol is shortly apparent. Returning to begin their new life together, the bride finds her efforts to nurture the marriage thwarted by her husband's excessive drinking. He dominates the relationship but spirals into alcoholism, his arrogance and self-loathing manifest in physical and emotional violence. Her rapid transition from starry-eyed bride to battered wife is marked by the appearance of a ghostly apparition and, though we are never sure whether this spectre is real or simply a fantasy borne of her brutal situation, its appearances become more frequent as her personality disintegrates. The death of their unborn child pushes her ever closer to the edge of sanity until the ghostly visitor's promptings finally impel her into a last desperate attempt to free herself from torment, bringing the Tenement Ghost to its ghastly and appalling climax.

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Two young boys venture into woodlands where they meet the gamekeeper, keen to protect his territory.

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The Veteran is an action thriller starring BAFTA Rising Star nominee Toby Kebbell as an ex-soldier who returns from Afghanistan only to find himself unable to fit back into society. Recruited into covert surveillance he uncovers a terrorist plot being hatched in London. At the heart of the plot is a young muslim woman and as he tries to save her, he discovers a much wider conspiracy involving the intelligence services. When his plan to assassinate the terrorists is sabotaged by the security services, his rage spirals out of control with bloody consequences.

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Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.

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A grandmother wakes up to find an intruder in her house. The intruder is primarily concerned with why she still has her christmas decorations up in February.