Projects in genres: Drama

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A man and a woman meet in a quiet English seaside town out of season. We learn that they have met online, and that this is their first meeting. But all is not as it seems, especially once they have got back to the hotel room booked for the occasion, and the true purpose of their liaison starts to become apparent.

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This is a story about the desire for revenge; about how hard it is to forgive.

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Adam finds a mysterious roll of film. Its pictures show him committing terrible acts. Are they evidence, or fakes? As he searches for answers, he becomes unsure of the truth.

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Ondene is beautiful, talented, and destined to study law at Oxford if she gets good A-levels. Nothing less will satisfy her domineering, mother, Hyacinth. When a, basketball court is set up near her private school, Ondene is charmed by a charismatic, freestyle basketball player, Leon, and they decide to enter a competition. From a deprived background, Leon dreams of going to university, and needs to win to pay his way. Ondene deceives Hyacinth to be with Leon, and romance blossoms. But just before the freestyle basketball and A-level finals, Hyacinth finds out, and splits them up. Angered by Hyacinth's interference, Ondene decides to take charge of her life but she has to make tough decisions about her family, education, and the man she loves.

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When London's sleaziest club opens for the night, no one expects the dramatic turn of events which is going to change the lives of the performers and the regulars of the 'Gin and It' club. Lonely burlesque dancer, Celina, is besotted with her American GI boyfriend, Eddy, a crook and womaniser. While he makes his moves on the girls that Celina think are her friends, she is out on the stage hiding her insecurities behind feather boas and sequened nipple tassels. The clubs seedy regulars, enjoy the company of performer and prostitue, Lily, who decides to take advantage of vulnerable celina as well as her delusional customer Oscar, a man who believes Lily to be his girlfriend. She will stop at nothing to stir trouble between the performers and guests at the club, while making Celina confused about her feelings towards her so called friend after Lily tries to seduce her. Taking drastic measurements, Celina is determined to know where she stands with her GI boyfriend, but the obstacles in her way are leadling Celina to deadly consequences.  

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Gone Fishing is the touching story of a boy and old man coming to terms with bereavement through their shared love of fishing, and the legend of Goliath, the biggest pike ever caught!

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Good Dick is an unusual fairy tale about a troubled, solitary women and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of the claustrophobic world by pursuing a courtship with her. As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defenses overwhelm them both. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds the courage to face her past. Writer, director, and lead Marianna Palka has an uncanny knack for understanding the complex give and take of human interaction and the sometimes painful motivations behind them. She has made a raw, joyously unpredictable feature debut touched with sly humor, tender hope and as much upfront honesty as its title implies, Good Dick.

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Bradley McKee is a Straight ‘A’ Student and just a normal guy. He’s a student who doesn’t have the perfect job or even a perfect social life. But he has met the perfect girl, of every man's dreams, famous glamour model Elle Harvard. At first sight of her, he is astounded by her beauty and style. The pair have a whirlwind relationship and in just one day dream Bradley is about to take Elle’s life by storm - much to the disgust of her over-protective and very arrogant agent. Elle possesses the ability to make Bradley take risks and do the things that he never believed that he could allow himself to do. Like most romantic comedies this relationship is about to take a turn for the worse when Bradley is set up by Elle’s agent and another model is photographed leaving his house. This is about to cause a major catfights in the model world. When Top model Elle threatens to give up her whole career for this boy there must be some serious pay offs. Elle’s agent pays Bradley off to end his relationship with the beauty. Bradley takes the money but automatically knows he has made the wrong decision - but it is too late once he has broken things off? It’s not long before he wonders if he can handle his newfound fame when things start crashing around him.

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A man kneels down to pray to a painting of Jesus, only to find that his prayers are interrupted by a noisy fly. Despite his efforts, the man cannot deter the fly from interrupting his prayer, and soon finds himself embroiled in a challenge of the great and small.

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A British-Pakistani film set runner transporting a load of replica guns gets stuck in a London suburb in the middle of the night.

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Ever get bored of happy endings? Why does every rom-com feel familiar? Happy F****** Endings is an existential romance with a sci-fi twist that is the result of what happens if the characters of a film get bored with their stereotypical relationship story. Old friends Rachel and Iain, both in their 20s, desperately pursue their independent paths to what they think is true love, whilst slowly realising their love for one another. As their story reaches its inevitable happy ending, Clare, who so far has simply been a pawn in their courtship reveals that she is in fact in control of the path their story takes. Bored by the naïve developments Rachel and Iain’s story has taken thus far, she decides to make them re-live the scenes of their budding romance desperately trying to find a way to make a new love-story. However as things progress it looks that she may have to just face up to the reality that perhaps a romantic comedy will never really be able to break it's own rules, and that, inevitably, there will always be a happy f****** ending.

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Love isn't blind, just extremely short-sighted. Hardly Bear To Look At You takes an unflinching look at the addictive effect unrequited love can have on both parties. A myopic filmmaker tries unsuccessfully to seduce an enigmatic street performer, escorting her from London to Paris by train and then back again in her antique Citroen van. When he casts her in a film set in Cannes, his romantic obsession grows, leading to a conclusion that will force a re-evaluation of all that has gone before.