Projects in genres: Drama

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When British band The Fury announced their first US tour, it seemed as if nothing could stop them. A nation had fallen in love with their high-octane, break-neck, harmony infused brand of sky scraping rock'n'roll. Led by the enigmatic Scott Fury, the world was at their feet. But as quickly as they'd risen, they fell. Scott broke up the band, and then disappeared. Many claimed he was dead. Jessica Jones is hoping he's not. A struggling wannabe music journalist, she's had several years of frustration and rejection trying to break into the industry. Just when she's on the verge of giving up, she's offered a writers position with one proviso - Get an interview with Scott Fury. Jessica must track down Scott, find out where he's been for the last ten years, get the interview that will kick start her career, and come to terms with a new set of songs that will change both their lives for ever.

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Five interlocking fictional stories depicting the lives of Brazilians and Londoners who co-exist under difficult emotional and psychological circumstances. The turmoil takes place against a backdrop of haunting memories, broken dreams, future hopes, exciting samba music and the festival spirit of London’s spectacular Notting Hill carnival.

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When a rose is left in the mailbox of Anna, a mute woman, her protective brother worries that the senders intentions may be evil, rather than romantic. As yet more roses arrive, her brother begins to suspect that Anna is keeping something from him.

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The Anniversary is a short romantic comedy.

Hippy student Sarah consoles her housemate Jake with Tequila, when she discovers he is missing his long-term girlfriend on their anniversary. Only things go wrong when she decides to drag him out clubbing.

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Runa, a British Bangladeshi girl, is excited to take her holiday with her father to Bangladesh - the country of origin of her father; she is floating in a sweet dream of a great adventurous holiday - different part of the world, different culture, ocean wide tea garden, the hugest tiger, mountains, fountains etc. Her sweet dream turns into a blood-chilling nightmare when, in a dramatic auction, her father sells her to her animal-like uncle and her uncle forces her into marriage to his son who is several years younger than Runa.
 
Runa's life turns into great suffering in that backward society where women have virtually no rights and absolutely no control over their lives. Despite this, she never stops thinking of being free knowing that it is almost impossible to escape from the village which is absolutely under her uncle's control. But one day, the impossible becomes possible, with a tremendous effort of the Forced Marriage Unit of British Home Office Runa escapes. Runa is flown back to the UK, to her boyfriend, who unbelievably denies her as his mother doesn't want to take a runaway girl as her daughter-in-law. Runa then walks away alone - all alone.

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A man wanders alone moving from town to town in North West India. Once a brave warrior now a Boatmaker for Yama, Lord of Death. He is Dharayan and ferrying souls is the price he pays for being granted immortality as a warrior. But Dharayan desires nothing more than to die and be with his son murdered by his enemies.

When Dharayan arrives at a new town he is met with suspicion and hostility except for a young girl called Sonu who greets with him with kindness and friendship. Sonu's charm begins to win over the emotionally closed off Boatmaker who forges a close bond with the child and her widow mother.

After making more boats than he can recall, Dharayan learns he can finally be with his son if he collects one last soul. He begins his last task only to discover it is for Sonu's mother. The young child begs him not to take her mother away forcing Dharayan to choose between saving Sonu's mother or joining his son.

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Two men, two lives, one moment.

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The Clan gives a unique insight into a dark world of crime, corruption and violence lying deep within the Scottish Highlands. The story unveils the existence of two feuding crime families that have evolved from ancient Scottish Clans, The McKinleys and the McNabs.

The film focuses on the relationship that has blossomed between the two youngest members of each Clan, Cal McKinley and Nicole McNab, struggling to cope with the daily brutal savagery they are being forced to endure. When they decide to run off together, they realise that escaping from the claws of their Clans would never be easy.

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Across the city organised gangs are fighting for control of the lucrative supply of narcotics but supremacy in this violent world is short-lived as younger, hungrier and more ruthless gangs move up. Against this brutal backdrop Ged Brennan, his younger brother Ratter and their crew pursue a dying trade of old time heists, but with two decades of meticulously planned jobs behind them, Ged is planning to turn his back on this life after one final heist. The problem is that Ratter has long since outgrown the needless danger of Ged's blags and has become increasingly desperate to move into the profitable world of drugs, a world that Ged wants nothing to do with. To make the move Ratter knows that he must cut all links with his brother but, for now, he has his own sinister reasons for staying on board. As the make-or-break heist approaches Ged must summon all of his street nous and killer instinct just to survive, and even then he needs friends in low places to ensure that the stains vanish without trace.
 

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Two writers, tired and stressed, attempt to meet a very tight deadline. Their task - to write the next hot script. Their problem - they are quickly running out of time. The desperate men jump between genre and style, plots and character arcs, as they struggle to find that elusive idea. As paper and time begin to run out, so too do the few ideas that they have. Will they meet that deadline or will they crack?

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Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. A passionate, sexy true story about a remarkable, turbulent friendship.

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Sue is the kind of guy who irons his pants and understands the use of the apostrophe; Kylie, his younger brother, has spent years trying to ignore him; but what will happen if Custer comes back into their life? Does he deserve one last chance? This darly comic film follows the emotional journey of two brothers.

From morning through to night as they try to come to terms with their relationship with their father who stumbles back into their lives for a moment one dark Christmas night.