Projects in genres: Drama

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A woman comes to terms with her loneliness and isolation, by keeping in contact with other humans in an unusual way. This powerful short film touches the very soul of our existence, and leaves us questioning the woman’s plight, and what it is to be human.

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A biopic celebrating the life of visionary musician Billy MacKenzie of the Associates.

Focusing on his rise to fame and untimely death. Set at the height of the 80's.

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James never misses his dreams - he records them straight to VHS using Dreamspoon wireless technology. But when a work colleague, Erica, stops by one evening, she finds something surprising amongst the titles.

A bittersweet comedy. If you hoard your dreams, someone is going to want to watch them.

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Police raid a Glaswegian Asian household. The son, Ali is arrested on suspicion of terrorism. Between cops, hacks, mullahs and militants, the Malik family’s world descends into nightmare. Yet not everybody is an enemy. Fast-paced, topical and thought-provoking, this is the first-ever feature film made by the South Asian diaspora in Scotland. A night of darkness.
 
An Act of Terror was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award 2009 in the 'Best Producer' Category.

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Set in London in 1961, a city caught between the drab, post-war 50’s, and the glamorous, more liberated 60’s. Jenny stands on the brink of becoming a woman; a brilliantly witty, clever and attractive 17 year-old girl whose suburban life of dull family meals, giggling schoolgirls and homework is about to be blown apart by David - older, urbane and unsuitable.

He introduces Jenny to an exciting new world of chic dinners, art auctions, smoky clubs and foreign trips. He charms her parents. But just as their long-held dream of Jenny getting into Oxford University seems within reach, another kind of life now tempts her. Is it one that sets her free or traps her? Will David be the making or the undoing of Jenny?

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A sequel to 1976's The Naked Civil Servant, An Englishman in New York tells the story of Quentin Crisp's years in self-imposed exile in New York until his death in 1999.

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Through the course of a day an uprising in Hell unfolds from the actions of five revolutionaries.
 

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Arctic Monkeys at The Apollo is a cinematic feast with impressive, intuitive, confidently held master shots - a film that invites the audience to immerse themselves in the style and force of the UK's most striking band as they deliver one of their most intense performances to date. It is an exceptionally high standard piece directed by Richard Ayoade (regular Warp Films music video director and actor from Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh and The I.T. Crowd), captured exquisitely on film by name directors of photography led by Danny Cohen (This is England, Pierrepoint), edited by BAFTA winning editor Nick Fenton (The Boy Who's Skin Fell Off, Sigur Ros documentary ‘Heima’), and produced by BAFTA winning Diarmid Scrimshaw from acclaimed Warp Films (the production company behind Dead Man’s Shoes and This Is England).
 

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Warring spouses Carys and James are accustomed to playing their countless infidelities off against each other, in a continuous battle of one-upmanship. But one night, when Carys finds evidence of James' latest conquest in their own bed, something snaps and a bitter battle of wits ensues. As their barbs grow ever more personal, the couple face up to what could be the final moments of their tempestuous relationship.
 

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When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig, they fall headlong into a volatile friendship that each of them aches for but neither can control. Violent, sexy and funny, Awaydays is a blade-sharp rites-of-passage that buzzes with the post-punk energy of its late-70s Liverpool setting.

Based on the classic novel by Kevin Sampson, and pulsating to a soundtrack of Joy Division, The Cure, Magazine, Echo & The Bunnymen and Ultravox, Awaydays examines identity, fate, the nature of male longings and their need to belong. It is the first major feature film to be set during, and evocatively portray, the first dawning of the football casual fashion cult. Quadrophenia meets Control? Trainspotting meets Stand By Me? Awaydays is all of these - 'A Catcher In The Rye' with switchblades.

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John, a twenty something from Gloucester, came to London with the hope of a new beginning. After 2 years of struggling to get by John finds himself on the street, doing what he can to survive. We follow John for a day as he makes his way.

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Set in a sleepy Fenland village, Backroads is a story about the essential humanity of those who find themselves caught up in sex slavery; and how cultural blindness, complacency, prejudice and inaction can cause just as much damage as any calculated crime.

It is also a film that makes the audience think about and appreciate what they have.