Projects in genres: Drama

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Adapted from Graham Greene's iconic 1939 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime.
 
At the heart of the story is the anti-hero Pinkie's relationship with Rose - an apparently innocent young waitress who stumbles on evidence linking Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing that Pinkie commits. After the murder, Pinkie seduces Rose, first in an effort to find out how much she knows and latterly to ensure she will not talk to the police. A love story between a murderer and a witness; can Pinkie trust Rose or should he kill her before she talks to the police? Can Rose trust Pinkie or is she next in line?

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An erotic drama that follows Manchester and Noon as they enjoy a long, hot, summer of love, living in a garage on waste-ground in post industrial Britain.

Noon is our narrator, a shy taxidermist who keeps a silent menagerie in the freezer alongside Manchester’s ice pops.

Manchester documents their affair. He rejects lighting, the planning of images or choreography in his photography, creating wonderfully charged images with just a couple of cheap, instamatic cameras.

When Franny, a wealthy pornographer, launches Manchester on an unsuspecting art world, his success destroys the beauty of their once idyllic life. He loses almost everything and only just wins back the one thing he loves, Noon.
 

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Separated from his wife and daughter, and teetering on the verge of financial ruin, Joe lives virtually cut off from the outside world. In a suicide chatroom, he meets Aimee, a young girl silently suffering abuse from her mother's boyfriend.

United in their resolve and bolstered by fellow chatroom users, Aimee and Joe make a pact to 'catch the bus' together. When they meet face-to-face, however, Joe is confronted with the reality of what they set out to do. Despite his reluctance, Joe drives Aimee to Margate, and the seaside neighbourhood where he grew up. At a local hotel, Joe succeeds in shocking Aimee out of her resolve to see the plan through that night.

The next day Joe gently probes Aimee, hoping to discover what has led her to such a desperate course of action. Later they visit a tarot reader. Aimee scoffs at the idea of having her fortune told, but when the reader traces her long lifeline she can't help but raise a smile. As they walk along the seafront, she stops at a payphone to call her mum. With a renewed sense of hope, Aimee and Joe make their way home.

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Chasmogamy explores the unspoken fears and apprehensions that we may harbour about each other. Set in multi-cultural London, the film takes the viewer on a journey that is essentially a stream of consciousness, following various characters as they go through the daily grind of a rush-hour bus ride.

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It's Cherry's birthday and she's excited about spending it with her family, but they're all too caught up in their own worlds to realise. The smaller Cherry feels, the smaller she gets - will she disappear altogether? A little bit of attention goes a long way when you're only 2 centimetres tall.

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Christine and Mike are your average parents. They live in an ordinary house on a regular street with their teenage son Sebastian. It's early evening and like many working parents there's still dinner to prepare, a phone call to be made and a bottle of wine to be opened. They settle in and unwind from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

There's a knock at the front door.

A married couple's night is interrupted when a group of teenagers break into the house and take them hostage, waiting for the son to come home. The teenagers want revenge for the son having grassed up their cousin.

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Three students drift through the genres of their favourite Asian flicks. Their arguments take them into an array of comic fantasy scenarios, from Bollywood song-and-dance spectaculars through to blood-soaked bulletfests and creepy nighttime terrors in this entertaining comment on modern British filmmaking.

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A filmmaker starts out to comment on his film.

The reversal of film and commentary offers a solution to making a (more) truthful film. But the deconstruction of the filmmaking process also reveals the limitations of the film form to convey meaning comprehensively.

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After years in India, working as a missionary, Reverend Densham returns to England to take up the post of vicar in the remote and insular Cornish village of Warleggan on Bodmin Moor. Influenced by the Indian culture, and in particular the work of Gandhi, Densham tries to spread the word to a prejudiced, uneducated and fiercely traditional community. The result is a clash of understanding which leads to a bizarre and tragic series of events and ultimately totals ostracism of Densham from the community.

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Jean notices a chip on a treasured vase. She accuses Maurice, her husband since whenever. He denies it. Employing a variety of tactics, Jean gets to the bottom of the situation.

This unique musical-of-sorts matches every syllable of dialogue to every note from cornetist Rex Stewart's 1966 recording 'Conversation Piece'.

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Can one man with a dream win the heart of the world's most powerful woman? This is a documentary like none you have seen before - the first musical docu-tragi-comedy in the history of cinema. Part Borat, part Fahrenheit 9/11, part Mamma Mia!, it follows a love-struck soul's hilarious, emotionally engaging, and ultimately shocking quest to woo former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
 
A spin on the Rapunzel fairy-tale, this unique romantic/political/biographic feature follows Devin Ratray, a portly website designer, musician, former child actor (famed as Buzz in Home Alone), and besotted admirer of Condi, as he prepares to meet her.
 
As Devin travels the country, learning more about the great lady from those who know her, Courting Condi tells the life story of one of our era's most inspiring, enigmatic, and controversial figures. This film is both timely and a classic love story, punctuated by timeless songs.
 
It's the first retrospective of the Bush Adminstration and will inspire audiences to laugh, sing and protest about the past eight years.

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Set in an austere and cloistered English girls school in the mid 1930s, Cracks is a compelling tale of innocence corrupted. An elite group of girls idolise their beloved teacher, Miss G (Eva Green). But their unhealthy bond is threatened by the arrival of an exotic and beautiful foreign student whose rejection of Miss G's attentions threatens the status quo and brings tragic consequences for them all.