Projects in genres: Drama

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Based on Blake Morrison’s best selling memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father? is ultimately a father son love story. From scholarly Blake’s fraught and sometimes humiliating teenage years growing up with a charismatic, overbearing and adulterous father, through to the ultimate grief of watching him die as an adult and father himself, the story takes us on a heart-rending and often humorous journey in which Blake revisits his past, comes to terms with some difficult home truths and finally learns to accept that one’s parents are not always accountable to their children.

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Set in England at the turn of the last century, Angel recounts the glorious rise of Angel Deverell, a poor but passionately determined young woman, who climbs the social ladder by becoming a celebrated romantic novelist.

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A man's love of nature and the sea is threatened by the work of a well-known artist. A slightly surreal conflict unfolds on the shifting sands of a Lancashire beach.

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After a violent storm, Ali Abdul Hussein awakens on a deserted Cuban beach, sick and disoriented. Taken to Havana, he meets Manuela, a beautiful and sensual dancer. She is reluctant to take in this tormented stranger, suspecting he’s a prisoner from Guantanamo Bay. However, she relents, drawn to this troubled foreigner. Plunged into the music and romance of Havana, Ali struggles to separate fantasy from reality. He is haunted by nightmares, taken back to the interrogation room’s pain and humiliation, and by startling visions linking his past and his present life. But are these nightmares flash backs to his experiences in the prison or just dreams of a tortured soul?

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In a climate of rapid technological advance in the fast booming baby business, perhaps a little pause for thought is required on behalf of the patients. Couples with infertility issues, biological clock challenged career women, and the gay community to name some can now achieve the previously inconceivable and are prepared to pay a high price for potential failure. Exploring a week in the life a typical 'cycling' batch of women and their donors preparing to undergo Assisted Reproductive Technology treatments at a progressive private clinic in the USA, the film asks 'what if...' What if - something entirely medically conceivable went amiss? If the architects of ART went the way that any successful artist might - and lost the run of themselves? Are not the baby designers of the future in danger of becoming the architects not only of their own downfall, but potentially tolling the death knell to the survival of our species?

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After the death of his wife in a devastating fire, Jonathon Soter's life is in ruins. Barely holding down his job as a teacher and drinking to excess, he's a man lost with nothing to live for. But the news that the boy who killed his wife has been released early from prison brings monumental change and gives him a motivation. He begins a journey to find his tormentor, to find an answer and to ultimately find redemption.

Exploring themes of contemporary crime and punishment, redemption and forgiveness, Ashes is a powerful drama that will move, entertain and inform its audience.

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In Colchester, the oldest recorded town in Britain, an 11-year-old boy seeks heartfelt and poetic revenge for the beating of his father.

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Filmmaker Terra Miller documents 24 hours in the life of would be London neo-revolutionary Isabella Beretta. As we follow her life we learn she has plans to burn the city of London to the ground and install a people's government.

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A hard-boiled crime thriller that takes place over the course of 24 hours or one day. Rebecca Ryan has been working as an undercover agent for the Organized Crime Division (OCD) posing as a taxi driver, while investigating London's south-side mob. When she finds her young daughter Lynn brutally murdered she fears her cover has been blown wide open, so she turns renegade and begins a brutal campaign of vengeance against the mob she believes killed her daughter.
 
As she trawls the seedy depths of London's underworld hunting down her daughter's killers, the lines between good and evil, right and wrong begin to blur as do her notions of justice and revenge. It falls to the world-weary OCD agent Darius Cruise and his newly-assigned, hot-tempered partner Abby Barrett to track down Rebecca and bring her in before all hell breaks loose. As implied by the title, the events take place over a 24-hour period, with each of the main characters having their own problems to over come as the day unfolds.

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Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US Marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged by this loss, his young Marine buddies carry out a brutal retaliation. Their violent house-searches lead to the massacre of 24 people, many of whom are women and children – tragic casualties of a war they cannot control. The Marines too are victims, attacked, wounded, and forced to respond in the way they have been trained. But when events occur at great speed and under extreme stress, can Marines in the line of fire be accused of murder.

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A young girl is forced to go hunting for pests with her estranged father in this atmospheric drama set in the wilds of Northern England.

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A gang of young friends are playing in the Gloucestershire countryside in the summer of 1943. One of them is given a dare, a dare that will change things forever!