Projects in genres: Drama

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Bodyguard: A New Beginning focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even his own errant son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy the family and all that his father has worked hard to protect.

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One hundred years ago, a beautiful young English woman named Beatrice promised a young Indian man named Vilas that she would wait for him. For a hundred years, if need be. At the height of the British Raj, these star crossed-lovers shared a love that defied both of their worlds. On the night of New Year's Eve, Beatrice escapes from her family and elopes to her lover. But tragedy strikes instead.   One hundred years later, in the urban slums of today's Mumbai, Beatrice tracks down the reincarnation of her lover from a century ago. Vilas is now Bombil, the hitman, and she has a job for him. At the appointed hour, at the appointed time, 100 years after destiny struck, what will he do? Can he redeem himself in his lifetime for promises made in the last? Can he kill the very thing he loved?

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'Poor People are allowed to have the same dreams as anyone else.' Boot Polish is a magical short film about a shoe shine boy Babar who becomes emotionally involved with a courtesan.

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In 2006 during the Israeli war on Lebanon, a former Lebanese militia man creates his own dream-like world in London, this world of solitude turns into an obsessive fixation on an imaginary muse.

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Boy A is a powerful coming-of-age story that looks at difficult questions concerning rehabilitation and redemption through the story of one young man. Jack, at the age of 24, has spent most of his young life in juvenile prisons for the murder of another child. Released from prison into a sometimes bewildering adult world, Jack is given a new name, new job, new home, a new life. But anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack has to contend with not being able to tell the people he gets to know, and love, of his true past and the monstrous crime he committed as a minor.

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Adapted from one of the truly great works of fiction of the 20th century, Brideshead Revisited is a gorgeously evocative romantic epic portraying a story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence. Brideshead Revisited is set in a golden age pre-Second World War when privileged aristocracy was falling into decline. The film is shot wholly on location in Oxford, England and Venice. This is the story of Charles Ryder’s infatuation with Julia Flyte, daughter of the aristocratic Marchmain family.

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It is 1968 and 14-year-old Chrystalla arrives in London from Cyprus to meet her father Solomon after four years apart, to find he is not the man he seems to be.

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A love story about a young man coming to a crossroads in his life when his father dies, forcing him to confront his impending marriage, career and happiness.

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Visited by an angel a British soldier, recently back from Iraq, reflects on the war in the middle east and her feelings for another woman.

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Georgina Scott is a broody 33 year-old who sends her partner packing when it becomes obvious that he doesn't share her desire for a bundle of joy. Zak was going away on a documentary shoot anyway and he hopes that she'll cool off in his absence. But Georgina discovers that early menopause runs in her family and heads to a specialist with her reluctant best friend Clem in tow. Learning that her baby making days are numbered and her next cycle will be her last, Georgina enlists the help of Clem and their camp pal, Justin, to make the most of it. A battle plan is drawn up but their escapades become increasingly frantic and elaborate as Georgina explores internet sperm donors, nightclubbers, builders and funeral-goers in her desperate and hilarious attempts to beat the biological clock.

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The surreal adventures of a damaged ray-gun hero questing through a B-Movie universe. Square chinned Captain Eager, arrives in his wobbly Bakelite rocket, brought out of mothballs by the sprawling, hi-tech corporation Macro Space. The brief is to investigate a maverick ‘client’ – The villainous Colonel Regamun who has taken over the Veritan Sector using the ‘Mark of Voth’. Aided by old pals Professor Moon, Scrutty and the love lorn Jenny, Eager rockets into B-Movie adventure unaware that it is all a set up. For Colonel Regamun is an enemy from the past craving revenge - and he is luring the brave yet clunky Captain to a final B-Movie showdown. But along the journey Eager learns to confront his monsters from the past and he triumphs by understanding that his enemy is human too.

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Mali visits the homes of frail elderly people and provides the care they can no longer give to themselves - but like Archie, not everyone is grateful for this help.