Projects in genres: Drama

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Evaristo (12) and Luis Antonio (11), indigenous children from La Sierra Tarahumara in northwest Mexico, are sent to deliver a package to a far off community. After losing their horse they decide to part. Luis Antonio will look for the horse while Evaristo delivers the package. The trip becomes much longer than expected. On their journey they both discover sides of Tarahumara culture that was previously unknown to them and that hugely influences their lives.

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Maria Del Conte, a 26-year-old attractive and intelligent banker has made a decision to take her life on her 27th birthday. Having had an unhappy and troubled childhood, she moved to London and carved out a successful career as an investment banker in European media investment. It is through one of her rich clients, geeky 22-year-old Bruce Day, that she is introduced to Michael - a small time film producer.

Maria finds a renewed interest in life by her association with Michael, a charismatic and worldly man, slightly jaded by a life full of disappointment. He asks her out for coffee. After many refusals she finally agrees to meet. Maria doesn’t drink coffee - she orders herbal tea. They start to meet on a regular basis in front of a backdrop of guerrilla film making, young entrepreneurs Russian ‘trophy’ girlfriends, beef-cake actors and temperamental directors in a modern day, multi-cultural London.
 
We discover the truth behind Maria’s ‘birthday’ decision, the reason for Michael’s cynicism, Maria’s new passion for strong cappuccino and observe an unusual sexual and intimate chemistry develop between the two of them…more is never enough.

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Control is the story of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the now-legendary band Joy Division, who killed himself at the age of 23. Ian is a complex character. Marrying at 17, his relationship with his wife Debbie is remarkable in its normalcy - a picture of the young Northern couple trying to create a life. Ian works in the Employment Exchange and Debbie is a homemaker. However, Ian's love of music and literature defines his life. We see the drive of the man, resulting in Joy Division's growing success. As the band's profile grows, Ian is diagnosed with epilepsy, leaving him unsure of himself and his future. While dedicated to his wife and baby daughter, Ian yearns for real compatibility. He finds this in the form of a bright young journalist. The ensuing conflict between responsibility and desire, coupled with the increasing responsibilities of the band and the toll of performance, renders Ian incapable of dealing with the world, and he chooses what for him seems the only way out.
 

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A would-be car thief finds the car of his dreams, but his bungled attempts at stealing it attract the attention of an eagle-eyed security guard who is determined to stop him.

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Mercy King is headed nowhere. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a former church pastor she leads a lonely and unfulfilled life. Steven Valentine lives downstairs from the unhappy couple. He secretly desires Mercy but her husband is in the way. Steven will do whatever it takes to possess the woman of his dreams, even if that makes him an accomplice to murder.  

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Shane is a shy civil servant striking out on his own. Vincent is a gay fashion design student looking for a roommate. When they cross paths, a friendship begins with Vincent helping pull Shane from his shell and sending him on the road to fabulousness.

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Six months ago. Manchester, England. A man falls from a third story window. Did he jump or was he pushed? Frank Bannister (Dutch Dore-Boize) knows. He's the only witness, and he aims to keep it that way. It should have been David Marx in flat 311. The hit-and-run driver who killed his father. Frank wasn't looking for vengeance; only justice. Now he'll find neither. Somehow, an innocent man has been killed. A man Frank has never met and has no connection with, but who is more dangerous dead than he ever was alive.

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For the couple in Dad love in later life is still passionate. Their son though, now reaching middle age, has problems. Unlike his parents he has no outlet for his sexual yearnings and while he hears his mother orgasm next door his own desires are far from fulfilled.
 

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A perfect day at the beach. May can't wait until it ends.

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Based on the book by Stuart Browne, this is the (largely autobiographical) story of Noah Arkwright, a cult director in the indie film world, whose life is on a crash course with Noah steering himself towards his own destruction. Noah's life is one of success and excess. Everything, drink, drugs, girls, fame, that Noah can get his hands on he wolfs down with an insatiable hunger. But he is running towards a brick wall, alcoholism and drug addiction have him firmly in their grasp, but Noah has no interest in acknowledging either until Kirstin, a young alcoholic who has seen the light, manages to convince Noah that he is heading for destruction and sets him on the path to reclaim himself.

With the help of his best friend Ray, Noah attempts to right his ship and when fate sends him a guardian angel in the shape of cellist Clare Mathesson, Noah tries even harder to shift his focus from self-abuse to self-preservation and on the road to selflessness and that is when mother nature deals him the cruelest blow of all.

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A gang of robbers have plotted together to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank waiting for its last journey, 'Incineration'.

The story begins with the gang checking in for a flight to join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to Germany, on their way to the World Cup.

But instead of passing through to Departure Lounge, they secretly head out to the car park, pile into a van and leave the Airport.

Once in Central London, they hit The Bank in a spectacular way. They have their plan. They have their alibi. They have their target, and they have two and a half hours to be back boarding their plane. But, is robbing a bank so easy?

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It's the year 1942 and the world is at war. John Mathew who has just celebrated his 16th birthday has been told that he is to fight for the country. Emotions are strong as John heads off to fight leaving him mother and younger brother behind.