Projects in genres: Drama

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Incapacity is a film about the young and free in the 21st century - A generation, which despite the new opportunities available, doesn’t actually seem all that free. A generation that is told to go to school, in order to go to university, in order to get the degree which can get you the job. But what happens then? Incapacity follows the journey of Mally, stuck in a job he can’t stand, with people he has no connections with.

This begins to change when he meets Gabriel, a man who lives his life not following the rules, not following the crowd, a man who appears to have all the connections. Could Gabriel hold the answers that Mally is looking for? Or maybe, he just likes to do a lot of drugs.

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A beautiful young mother lives in a concrete tower block - and wistfully watches the convivial life of good looking Jasper Black who lives across the road in a 'Georgian gem'. When her husband Lenny and their four-year-old boy go to an Arsenal football match one afternoon, she picks Jasper up in a local pub and brings him back to her flat for sex. During their encounter the TV plays footage of the football match which is suddenly ripped apart by a massive explosion, killing her husband and son. In the aftermath, struggling to deal with her guilt and grief, the young mother finds herself becoming closer to Terrence, the police officer in charge of the investigation and close friend of her dead husband. Unable to accept what has happened, she steals CCTV footage from Terrence and watches her family over and over again in the moments before their death. Her intense grief is matched by Jasper’s obsession with finding out who the bombers were.

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Two female kidnappers find themselves dragged further and further into a complex mystery, fuelled by paranoia. Everything starts to spiral out of control, as one of them suspects there is something wrong in paradise.

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Josh, arriving home from work, is confronted by his partner Jenny, who is complaining about a task left undone. As a consequence of the verbal diatribe that Josh is faced with, he is catapulted into déjà vu and is reminded of those times in his past where others have confronted him, making him feel useless. But who will have the last laugh?

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Middle-aged Maggie must find a way to get enough money for her grandson's lifesaving medical treatment. With all financial resources exhausted, Maggie tries her best to lift the dwindling hopes of her only son Tom and his wife Sarah.
 
When a 'Hostess wanted' sign catches her eye, Maggie naively stumbles into a city sex club. The true job description is quite a surprise for the respectable middle class widow, even if she isn't a prude. But unskilled Maggie accepts this as her fastest way to urgently needed cash and her very last option, having already sold her own home to pay for little Olly's hospital bills.
 
Shy Maggie has a rough start at 'Sexy World', more than just a train ride from her conservative suburb. Wisecracking colleague Luisa shows her the ropes and the two strike a touching friendship. Tough guy owner Miki, a real ladies man, reveals a soft spot for dutiful Maggie, and transforms her into the much-in-demand and lucrative Irina Palm.  Maggie outrageously proves to herself that she's not so old and useless after all.
 
Maggie's double life quickly attracts the attention of her gossipy neighbour's prying eyes. The headstrong woman remains steadfastly discreet, keeping the money's origins secret from even her own suspicious son. But discovery is inevitable and Maggie must confront provincial hypocrisy's ugly face, as well as question her own morals. As she holds her head high, gracious Maggie just might find more than family love.

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Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Seizing the chance, she teams up with her flatmate, Rose, to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate to work the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times.

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Itch follows Nathan McCarthy through three days of his life he wanders alone, along the streets of his depressing industrial town – he has chance meetings with strangers – he bumps into an old friend in a pub, Paul Chapple, who turns out to be a local small-time drug dealer and the catalyst in changing his life.

Nathan has been suffering from years of manic depression. He has been in and out of institutions but nothing has helped him so far – he is a man on the edge and is to become totally unbalanced through a series of seemingly random events.

Nathan has an itch he can’t scratch. This is the story of how he comes to terms with his problems and how he deals with it all in his own special way. His therapy is about to begin.

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A contemporary film noir following Jack escaping from a bloody London crime scene with a serious case of amensia. Waking up next to the corpse of London gangster, The Guv'nor, Jack flees London for Paris. Jack turns to frosty ex-girlfriend Erin for shelter in Paris, but it's not long before trouble catches Jack up in the form of Garvey.

Talk is cheap.

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Jen is a feature-length production shot on MiniDV during 2007. It is essentially a romance story following the plight of street alcoholic Jen, who, after a bad day, is befriended by a kind taxi driver named Brian. The two struggle to come to terms with their seperate addictions with each other. Their relationship starts off platonic and eventually blossoms into love.

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Johnny (Vinnie Jones), trying to escape a violent past in Ireland, hides out in Brixton, London's toughest West Indian neighborhood; but when his former comrade and mentor Flynn escapes from Brixton prison determined to derail the Irish peace process, Johnny faces not only being dragged back into violence and away from his new love (Samantha Mumba), but also igniting a simmering feud with his 'Yardie' neighbour.
 
Questions of race, morality and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock and soul.

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Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. Now working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the Mob track Stephanie down and persuade her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge!

Inspired by true events, Journal of a Contract Killer is the gripping story of a woman driven to turn on her paymasters with devastating consequences.

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Kill Kill Faster Faster is the story of Joe One-Way, a man serving a life stretch for the passion murder of his teenage bride Kimba. Inspired to write by Clinique, his Jamaican cellmate, mentor and lover, Joe pens the hard-boiled play White Man: Black Hole. New York film producer, Markie Mann, wanting to make the play into a film, pulls strings to have Joe paroled and contracts him to write the screenplay for the movie. Fleur is Markie Mann’s beautiful wife, a one-time hooker and ex-con, who can’t help but fall for kindred spirit Joe. Their attraction is irresistible. Fleur is Joe’s salvation and soul-mate. They are propelled on a journey of obsession, guilt, and lust as Joe struggles between the pull of heroin, his violent impulses and the desire to redeem himself in the eyes of his estranged twin daughters. A bad man trying to be good, the more he tries to do right, the more goes wrong. He is sent in a tail spin. Out of control, Joe One-Way soon discovers that life on the outside may be too dangerous even for him.