Projects in genres: Drama

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Evan lives in a small English village with his eccentric, evangelistic Aunt. A simple life, a regular routine with an ordinary job. His world is small. His girl is just a friend he’s known since childhood and the only regular trouble is the racism shown to his best friend Sri. His aunt attends the small village chapel and he goes with her more out of habit than conviction, after all, he has more interesting and less weird things to do, like restoring his old Porsche. But life is not so simple. First his job disappears and then the yanks appear driving on the wrong side of the road with nearly fatal consequences. With the Americans temporarily stranded, his Aunt invites them to stay at the cottage and everything changes. With an attractive daughter, and cynical father, trans-Atlantic horizons and conflicts open up. The young man, encouraged to try on a new worldly outlook, seems poised for success in romance and business, except that, his friends, heritage and moral code are falling painfully by the wayside. What’s a man to do when caught between obscurity and success, between new and old, between the familiar and the foreign?
 

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One small random act of malice forces an ordinary man off the safe road and on to a dark journey he'll never forget.

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London. A capital city filled with culture and opportunities that truly represent the contemporary voice. Yet some things never change. No matter how many times you pass it, how many times it is in your face, some things are left forgotten or simply overlooked.

Compelled to accept the challenge and approach litter with a different perspective, the drama follows one habitant who has found his own unique take on the idea of recycling.

Take a journey through London as never seen before.
 

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The clock is ticking and Ruby is trapped. Will Jack, the long lost love of her life, wait for her?

The real music in this film is the gently emotional Liverpool voice-over, weaving her tales of the strangeness of love.

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Two strangers attempt to bring the balance back into their lives after their respective grief and loss meanwhile unaware of the increasing connections between them.

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In a typical satellite town found anywhere in Britain, Ryan is on the verge of adolescence. Spending his days filled with boredom wondering around the run down housing estate he happens across some older kids and finds himself being drawn into their world of aggression and intimidation.

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A soldier returns from the war in Afghanistan and finds the peace he wants is hard to find. Seeking refuge, solace and safety in the English countryside he finds himself harassed by an increasingly threatening individual.

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A story of the life, struggle and survival of London's East End landlady, Sandra Esqulant, who's been running the Golden Heart pub in Spitalfields for nearly 30 years. Adored by everyone around her, the film captures a slice of her life in one of the most fascinating areas in London.

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As Alison waits for her lunchtime appointment, a familiar figure enters the restaurant - it's Laura, her first love. Without warning, Laura drops a bombshell: she still loves Alison and wants her back. Before Alison can catch her breath, Sara, her girlfriend, rushes into the restaurant and wonders how Alison knows Laura, her mother.

She has a choice. Does Alison make the right one?

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Marina is a forty-something Russian woman living in a small village in South Leicestershire, England. Seven years ago she married Gregory, a village garage owner, collector of Morris Minor cars and Ipswich Town supporter. They met when Gregory went to seem them play against Torpedo Moscow. Marina moved to England with her five year old daughter in the hope of happiness and a secure future for her child.

A journalist and a writer in her previous life, she now works as a local hairdresser and in her spare time writes for the parish magazine. Gregory loves her, and her daughter seems to flourish in a private school, but Marina isn't satisfied with her life, but can't really explain why.

The feeling increases when she meets Valentina, an old friend from Moscow. She is a successful writer and Marina asks herself whether maybe she could also write books in Russian, her native language which nobody seems to need in England.

A chance encounter with a touring string quartet from Moscow throws her out of her daily routine, and unexpected love opens up all the questions which Marina has been hiding deep inside.

It's a story about love and about people who are moving from place to place in search of home, but can't find it anywhere. It's also a story about middle age - the age when one has already (or not) achieved something in life, but when there is still time to start everything anew. And it's a story about a Standing Stone on the outskirts of a small English village where, some of the villagers believe, aliens might land one day.
 
For this film, Marina Blake won Best Actress at Kinoshock 2008. In addition, the film won awards for Outstanding Achievement, with particular reference to direction, screenplay and cinematography, and for Best Actress, at the Faithful Heart Film Festival, Moscow, in October 2008.

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On a night amongst friends, Pete and Suzy await the arrival of Pete’s fiancée Kim, but as the delays mount, the origins of her mysterious texts become ever more unclear.

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Seeing Smoke is a cautionary tale about a man falsely accused of child molestation, and the effect this has on his life and those around him.