Projects in genres: Drama

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Derek Luke portrays real-life hero Patrick Chamusso. Completely apolitical whilst toeing the hard line imposed on blacks by apartheid, Patrick is a family man, he and his wife Precious (Bonnie Henna), have two young daughters and he coaches a local boys’ soccer team in his spare time. Patrick’s job is as the foreman at the centrally located Secunda oil refinery, a symbol of South Africa’s self-sufficiency at a time when the world was protesting the country’s oppressive apartheid system.

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An Asian girl who is being forced in to an arranged marriage she does not want must choose between her love and her family ties leading to tradgedy followed by redemption for all?

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Cherps is a fresh and charming romantic comedy that draws equally on traditions of British story telling and New York independent filmmaking.
Reggie is a thirtysomething second-generation black British west London geezer. He likes to live on the fly; ducking and diving, and avoiding work whenever possible. He also likes to cherps women. In black British street slang, 'to cherps' is to chat up or flirt with women. Simple.

But Reggie's wild days are numbered when his longtime baby-mother, Sandra, puts the clamps on him; she wants him to settle down and stop running with his home boys. This sends Reggie into a tail spin. Settle down?! Make a commitment?! These are big concepts that need a lot of thought.

And so over the next seven days our hero goes on an existential journey into the meaning of commitment, the meaning of happiness the meaning of life, no less.

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When you're a 16 year old boy the only thing more important than thinking about sex, is having sex! Meet Whipper.

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Based on a true story, Chicken Soup is set late at night in an anonymous airport bar. It is the heart-warming story of Khal, a young Arab, whose need for independence and to belong in western society has alienated him from his father. A chance encounter with a mysterious blind old Arab whose revelation of a childhood accident reminds Khal, what his father really means to him and that parents can make mistakes.

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Meet Anna. Anna's best friend is Rachel. Rachel has a brother called Tom. Tom's best friend is Chris. Chris loves Tom, but Tom loves Anna. Anna knows this and is encouraged by Rachel. Rachel loves Anna too, but not like that. Chris loves Tom, exactly like that. Anna loves Tom back, but can't do anything about it. You see, Anna holds a nasty secret. One that could ruin everything for everyone. At age fourteen, Anna was raped by her brother.

Meet Anna. A girl in torment. This is the story of no-one seeing, no-one caring and no-one knowing why she cries.

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Oscar winning Director Richard Attenborough helms a deeply moving love story, beautifully interwoven between 1991 and World War Two, about how an American woman honoured a wartime promise, with a lifetime of denial - and how the discovery of a gold ring on a distant Irish hillside brought her back to life.

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A story that seems to revolve around an ex-husband stalking his former wife turns into something altogether different, and very poignant, as this evocative tale of love and loss unfolds.

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Dog used to run a highly profitable team of international telephone fraudsters, until he was chased into hiding by a hitman. With little human contact and only a white crow for company, Dog has survived only on paranoia and memories. Now, two years later, he's still alive and desperate to live.

He's had time to re-evaluate his life, and realizes that he doesn't understand most people's idea of normality; but the lure of the buzz, the money and the bullshit is too much: He wants to get his old team together again for one last pitch.

So now he's back on the case, putting together a massive telephone scam, and we're there to witness it in detail so accurate, it's almost a beginner's guide to telephone fraud!

But will this lifestyle still provide him with the illusions he needs to believe in himself?

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Marion and her ten year old son, Stuart, look after an old National Trust property while it is closed over winter. Stuart and his mother return from a visit to a psychiatrist who is intrigued by Stuart, as he draws his nightmares on scraps of paper that he then collects in jars. One night, a precious jar is broken and the nightmare within escapes into the large old house, where it stalks mother and son.
 

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Young Anna Holz, a student at the Vienna Music Conservatory is summoned to the offices of Herr Schlemmer, Beethoven’s publisher. His Ninth Symphony is about to be premiered and Schlemmer, who is dying of cancer, needs a copyist to complete the score. Anna eagerly accepts, despite his warning that Beethoven is a monster.

As her work of copying down the music of Beethoven proceeds, Anna is drawn into the maestro’s tortured and inspired world. She sees their collaboration as a God-sent opportunity to prove her own talent as a composer; he glimpses in her a pure soul who might help him realize the culmination of his art – the creation of the last string quartets, the most sublime and spiritual music ever written.

Beethoven reveals his growing need and affection for Anna as they work together on the string quartets.  She boldly shows Beethoven her own work. Thoughtlessly, he derides it and she leaves him in despair.
Desperate, Anna accepts her longtime paramour, Martin’s, proposal of marriage. Beethoven storms after her - she must choose between Martin and him. Anna tries to flee Vienna but cannot; her destiny is linked to Beethoven’s. She returns to finish their work and finds him dying. From his dictation she copies the last of the quartets. His work on earth done, he frees her to become what he tells her she was born to be – a composer.

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Alistair McIntyre, a sales assistant at a department store in Glasgow, has a secret that he cannot divulge. He and his sister grew up in a hippy commune in Spain. Sixteen years ago, after a big row with his parents, Alistair was dumped on a dusty country road in Granada. That was the last time he saw Cristina. He now discovers that she is living in a commune in the Scottish highlands. He turns up, with a film crew in tow, and, although she is absolutely happy here, Alistair is determined to save her.