Projects in genres: Drama

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Lazaro, a young trumpeter from La Havana, prepares to taske a music exam with a new trumpet mouthpiece. One day this mouthpiece disappears. Following its disappearance, Lazaro decides to look for his father, who is also a trumpet player.

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Two young foreigners living in a vibrant, hip squat in London's East End embark on separate quests. Axl is searching for his long-lost father. Vera seeks to mend a broken heart as she begins a sexy, playful relationship with a charismatic stranger.

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A Jewish bride and a Palestinian groom on their wedding day in London. But this is not a standard Romeo and Juliet tale of forbidden love.

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We follow an eccentric local London character as he listens to his walkman and dances his way around town. While everyone else searched for the X factor he just loved the music.

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Wasted is an uncompromising and gritty film about two young lovers, Connor, a 17-year old street working male prostitute and his girlfriend Suzanne, a 16-year-old street-working prostitute. It is a picture of love and its pitiable fate in a loveless and harsh environment where the atmosphere is too sharp for even the tenderest of human life. An unforgettable, uplifting love story of 2 young people who cling to each other for hope and survival.

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Tired of his street gang's violence and criminality, Tom's plans for escaping to Paris are ruined by his mother's illness. However, whilst secretly staying at home to look after her, he devises an ingenious way of convincing gang leader Daryl of his departure.

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Katherine Mellor is a private investigator with the task of monitoring Michael, a businessman suspected of infidelity. For three days she follows his movements and interactions during his ‘business’ trip to Galway, gathering evidence that will incriminate the unsuspecting Michael. However, when Katherine meets Tomas, an escort that she hires to provide cover for one evening, she realises that she has perhaps interpreted Michael’s situation incorrectly. What follows is a journey into her understanding of love, truth and faithfulness. When faced with the reality that her spying will determine Michael’s future, Katherine is forced to make difficult decisions that put her own principles to the test.

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The dramatic true story of Rwandan school students, attacked by rebels in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide - whose refusal to betray each other cost some of them everything, but gave hope to a nation.

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A young woman struggling to make the life in London she wants must deal with an unexpected circumstance the only way she knows how and must come to terms with the fact that it will effect her more than she realises.

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Two adopted brothers, Joe and Reese always had strong brotherly ties but took different paths in life. Joe a reformed man released from prison returns to London to protect his younger brother now in danger from his old underworld. Upon his arrival, he discovers that Reese has now become part of this world.

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Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, in a battered trailer, abides living legend Jesco White, 'the dancing outlaw'. As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum for taking drugs, stealing lighter fluid and for his wild behaviour. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing – a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his daddy’s murder at the hands of a pair of drunken rednecks, the crazy but charismatic Jesco out on his daddy’s shoes, danced his way round the bars of the county where he met the love of his life, Cilla, who happened to be twice his age and half his height. The odd couple tried to settle down but tortured by the thought of his daddy’s killers still at large, Jesco’s demons resurfaced. This is his story.

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Azeem thinks his white girlfriend Gemma is a whore and whats to make her pay - but she has other ideas.