Projects in genres: Drama

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A young girl, Jenny, finds herself unwanted by either of her separated parents during the formative years of her life and leaves home at the earliest opportunity. However, live-in boyfriend Rick’s associations with witchcraft and black magic soon take her down a path which leads to the most horrific experience of her young life. She seeks help from friends, doctors, psychiatrists and religious leaders but finds only scepticism and disbelief. Finally, from within the confines of a mental hospital, she finds the help she needs.

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Lucy is eleven years old. Neglected by her estranged mother and father, she ends up being placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow Lucy's struggle to cope with the system. Her saving is her self-belief and her certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit; hers is a heroic quest for love, beauty and transcendence.

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Kate was a dancer, a good one. The future was hers, the excitement, the competitions, the awards. At just 16 she had it all. But then the accident happened.

Not only was she scarred for life, but her injuries took away her voice. Now a reclusive mute, she lives a secluded life, hidden from the world.

But when she meets Danny in an Internet chat room he is determined to break her out of her shell. Smooth talking and not afraid to bend a few rules, Danny makes it his personal mission to get Kate back on the stage. However as their friendship grows, Kate begins to suspect that Danny is not everything he claims to be.

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Chronicling Queen Victoria's rise to power, focusing on the early turbulent years of her reign and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert.

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Thomas is a family drama set on a failing farm in Cumbria. Thomas,12, is a young boy who is always disappointing his father. When he kills a chicken by accident he blames the family dog for what has happened. But his father knows that he is lying and is determined to make a man of him. He tells the boy that if the dog killed the chicken they will have to kill the dog. Thomas must chose between killing his dog and standing up to his father

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Through the Viewing Glass is the Alice in Wonderland of Film Noir. Pushing the limits of traditional narration and storytelling. set in a land of TV’s, it tells the story about a cliché private detective taking upon him his last case.

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Thugs, Mugs and Violence a new British gangland tale set in the boundaries of London. Three criminal gangs that are fighting to win control over the London territories.

After the disappearance of £2million pounds worth of drugs, blame falls between the rival firms. The streets of London then become the backdrop to an intertwined game of cat and mouse between the gangs as each make their play to gain control as the story twists and turns with a host of colourful characters, shoot outs and violence.

The Davis brothers are old school criminals from the East End of London, Mo Mo is the leader of Brick Lane firm whilst the South London gang is headed by Tony ‘The Ant’ Declan. As the story unfolds around the three gangs, we encounter Peeper’s, Judge, Stardust and the Serb who further intensify the tale of double-cross, bloodshed and revenge.

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A woman remembers her love-affairs with famous historical male figures. Based on the director's book of the same name, the film is a fantasy love-letter to a collection of men from diverse worlds including Orson Welles, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, sportsman Charles B Fry and Jim Morrison.

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Two homeless men stumble across a 'top of the range' cooker, an opportunity to end their problems. Joe needs to sell the cooker for a ticket to Blackpool - to his dying mother, while Will needs to sell it for drugs; in order to shift it, they have to work together.

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Two teenage brothers reach tipping point with their violent, emotionally damaged father. They decide to leave, without anything but each other and a little hope. Tortoise is a brutal, reflective thriller played out on some less trodden and windswept shore of England.

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Awkward and socially inept, Japanese Toshi finds himself shut out of his colleagues' fun while on a business trip in London - but Toshi's about to have some fun of his own.

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Set in 1903, TRACKER is a manhunt drama in which Arjan (Ray Winstone), a guerrilla survivor of the South African Boer War, lands in colonial New Zealand and is promised a bounty to capture Kereama (Temuera Morrison), a Maori seafarer accused of killing a soldier.

What should be a simple job for Arjan, a master tracker, turns into a gripping and dangerous game of cat and mouse as Kereama repeatedly escapes and is recaptured, all the while insisting on his innocence. As each gains and loses the upper hand, they gradually get to know and respect each other. In an emotional and high-risk showdown, their tenuous bond is tested in the face of a military posse led by Major Carlyle (Gareth Reeves).