Projects in genres: Drama

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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.

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Chris is having a secret affair with a work colleague, Layla. His wife, Jenny phones her friend Helen, to discuss her suspicions and at the same time looks for definite evidence. Jenny accidentally meets Layla in the office lift but doesn't have the courage to challenge her husband's lover. Finally, Jenny decides to follow Chris to Layla's house. Inside Layla's boudoir matters take an unexpected turn and Chris ultimately loses more than his underpants.
 

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A gang of inner-city kids have discovered a dark new sport - urban fox-hunting.
 
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Mel and Ash are two British Chinese gay men who studied together. After attending the funeral of Gavin, a closeted friend from their university days, they start examining the crow's feet on their faces and questioning the meaning of the labels in their wardrobes.

Mel, an aging scene queen with the ego of Norma Desmond, believes life is a beauty pageant with him always the winner. He rejects the love of Todd, a provincial boy from the Welsh valleys who moves to London to be with him, in favour of quick-fix sex to fight his insecurities. But how long can he sashay down the catwalk when his eye bags are bigger than his Gucci bags?

Ash is tired of the jaded gay scene where steroid bodies and the Atkin's diet are the only offerings on the menu. He meets Diane (a.k.a Dan) a transexual from their college days with a butch, sexy and straight looking ex army boyfriend, Ross. Ash decides the only way for him to find a real man is to cross dress. Will his foray into the wonderland of tranny burrows and tranny chasers bring him his dream man?

With an underground drag club, sex in public toilet and an all male production of the Miss Pacific Rim Beauty Pageant, Cut Sleeve Boys is a quirky stir fried journey of self discovery and a makeover of the British Chinese gay experience.
 

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Dimitri awakens from his bathtub after a rough night unaware of what is about to happen to him next. A dark atmospheric film from Foghorn Films, this is the first film from director Colin Ross Smith.

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Set in the near future, at a time when American foreign and domestic policies have further polarised the country’s electorate, the film explores the fallout from a horrific attack on the administration. Death of a President is a fictional drama, told in the style of a retrospective documentary, which offers an oblique critique of the contemporary US political landscape.

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When Tony is told off for stealing a pencil, his ten year-old logic seethes at the injustice. What course of action is open to him other than to inspire a juvenile revolt? With truth justice and his comrade pupils by his side, what can possibly stop him?

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Julius (Julian Guyonnet), has just been released from prison. He has served 7 years for murder.

On release, the conflicts within him makes him think he is going crazy. The world has changed.

Julius finds himself trapped in a world more confining than his cell life. Disoriented and confused he goes deeper and deeper down a road of fear and inner conflict.

A few weeks after release, Julius meets Radha (Suchitra), on the Queens Golden Jubilee Bridge.

Radha has plans for her own life but Julius falls in love at first sight with her.

Just as Julius transforms and breaks away from his past he is diagnosed as having cancer. He has only a few weeks to live and treatment will be painful with no guarantees. Radha, on the other hand does not know of Julius health problems, and rejects his love for her, indicating she wants to pursue a spiritual life. Julius decides to die, a few cry as Julius leaves this world.

5 years later - Well you will have to watch Destiny!

A gripping tale of personal discovery and love.

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In a lawless, Godless outpost of 18th Century England, Highwayman Gabriel enters a dark contract with enigmatic stranger Dante. Matters are complicated by Rossetti, a new-comer whose beauty catches Gabriel's eye as much as her chilling tales intrigue his ear.

Neither she, nor Dante, are what they seem.

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A joyful occasion when family and friends get together. A suave and sophisticated gentleman arrives and turns the situation into chaos.