Projects in genres: Drama

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A mother is torn between being a good citizen and protecting her child leading to drastic consequences.

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Through the use of a secret camera, an out-of-work actor tries to uncover the reasons behind his failing career and takes on an experiment to find out if it is possible to control how others perceive him. Borges and I is a facetious commentary on the relentless recording and sharing of our lives in the wake of the user-generated-content generation.

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A scattered people, the descendants of storied sea-kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction. Yet amidst these valiant, desperate people, hope remains. A royal house endures unbroken from father to son.

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Carroll Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambitions and desires. After endless parties, too many dead end jobs and family arguments Bailey becomes self destructive – resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love. After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise. Things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are others who will stop at nothing to make Bailey’s life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug fuelled parties Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.  

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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.