Projects in genres: Drama

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Tom and Sean have their own unique way of making their pocket money, but a confrontation with an elderly man acts as an ethical turning point in the lives of the boys.

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Personalities collide in a flatshare, where an introspective young woman is being pressured to move out, and the relationships within the flat are disrupted upon the arrival of a guest.

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Stacey is a young mother trapped in a violent marriage who wants to see her daughter as Cinderella in the school play but must first escape the nightmare of her own Prince Charming.

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Fuel Crisis is a short film set just after a nationwide fuel shortage. Cars and other transport are redundant. A man in search of a new life wonders the countryside in search of hope. He discovers something much more valuable; a bicycle! He soon learns the value of his possession.

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Vincent loves Candice but she may just be an angel of Rimbaud's fury.

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Dave wants to talk to God about their relationship; a partnership which is still in its infancy. Dave's been out with weird girls before. Dave arranges a meeting in an inconspicuous café where they can both lay their cards on the table and watch her world pass them by.

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A surreal short film set in the ruins of London, driven by a contemporary music-hall libretto. The film contrasts the beautiful and grotesque in a narrative focusing on the universal question - are our lives driven by destiny or chance?

This powerful short narrative embodies key aspects of the classic Gothic tale, with echoes of Du Maurier's Trilby and Le Fanu's dark stories.
The mystery of the 'true' nightmare of the narrative is left to the viewer to decide.

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Guilfest has been running since 1993 in Guildford, Surrey UK. Acts in previous years have included Paul Weller, Jools Holland, and Van Morrison. The Documentary covers more than just the music, with interviews, history of the music festival, musical acts, and a true insight into how an independent music festival is produced. A different angle on modern day music festival documentaries, cameras were given out to festival goers to record their experiences over the three days.

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Half Term is a powerful study of one boy's journey into the treacherous terrain of manhood. Mark's entire future seems to implode on one week's nightmare holiday visit to his absent father in remote coastal Cornwall, a visit that will change his life forever.

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Hamlet is a ghost story - so why has nobody ever told it as one?
In Fodor's Hamlet emphasis is put on the nightmarish ether of the play, setting it in a surrealistic no-man's land.
Rather than following traditional, schoolbook definitions of characters, these are ripped apart. So, for example, the traditionally weak Ophelia, is now dominated by her elder sister Polonia (normally a male comic role) who supplies her with addictive drugs to cement that control. Hamlet's father, The Ghost (normally an heroic victim) is now a vicious psychopath, manipulating his own son to gain brutal vengeance on his murderer, Claudius.
And yet not a single line is added or changed, the difference is how they are delivered - naturalistically with the emphasis on making sure an audience who may never even have heard a single line of Shakespeare accept it as though it is merely an alternative accent of English.
 

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A 'feinschmecker' tries to seize his last chance of happiness with a beautiful street performer who models herself after Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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Haven is an afterlife love story between two jaded spirits. A young man is dragged along a bridge by two men and thrown over the side. His name is Tom and the dark afterlife he awakes in will never be the same. Tom meets a beautiful but haunted young woman. Together they attempt to overcome the past in a place built out of secrets.

Haven incorporates black box performance with innovative camera work and animation. Lino-cuts and prints by artist Trevor Haddrell create the architecture of the afterlife. Memories from life back in the world are shown through the eyes of the characters using a specially designed camera apparatus. The film boasts a gripping original soundtrack by the post-industrial band Mindless Faith.