Projects in genres: Drama

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Ignored by her mother, a little girl lets her imagination runs wild.

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Penelope suffers from an old family curse - she was born with the face of a pig. Consumed with keeping her from the outside world and reversing the curse, Penelope's parents believe that if they can marry Penelope to 'one of her own kind,' i.e. a blue blood, the curse will be lifted. The problem is that when suitors see Penelope they run away in terror. To master this fact, suitors must sign a non-disclosure form before they meet her, but still they cannot get her married.

One suitor, Edward Vanderman, flees before they can get him to sign. He tries to tell the world of the horror he has witnessed, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Everyone except Mr Lemon, a reporter who believes in the curse and has been trying to get a photo for many years.

With the impetus he needs to revisit the story, Lemon decides to send a dummy suitor - a known blue blood - to get pictures. Enter Max Campion - a handsome young blue blood in desperate need of money. What Lemon and Edward don't count on is Max falling for Penelope and the power of true love to set fantastic things in motion.

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Peppermint is a present day drama about Beth, a young teenager whose life is a difficult mix of emerging sexuality, turbulent relationships and personal insecurity. The story circles around Beth's attempt to validate herself in the eyes of her competitive mother Ann, resulting in a series of shocking revelations which unfold in the space of one difficult day.

Caught in the emotional crossfire are Mike and Nan, the people closest to the pair. Through their interactions emerges a past of parental neglect and irresponsible adulthood, which looks inevitably set to repeat itself.
 

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Set in 1973. single Dad, Jimmy focuses all his energies on the welfare of his eight-year-old daughter, Laura. When he sees her being bullied on the way to school he intervenes, but in doing so misses a court appearance. As Jimmy and Laura escape to the countryside they have no way of knowing how their perfect day will end.

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Jack is an actor who stars in poor quality porn films. One day on set, whilst struggling to work with a particularly uninterested and uninspiring co-star, he has an epiphany and is confronted by a vision of how very different his life could be.

For the first time in his life he takes stock of his surroundings and decides it is time to reassess his values and direction. In a grand gesture he leaves the studio - and the porn industry - behind for good, only fate has different ideas.

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A procession of the Italian Confraternity - an order of the Catholic church that perhaps, to the eyes of traditionally non-Catholic countries, triggers other very different movements. This confusion is dispelled by references, filmed in the same town, same day, to more recognizable aspects of Catholicism. Innocent, but still the power to shock?

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Filters and lines, salty mouths, a family on the edge of the sea.

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A young boy in a rural village of Bangladesh ran away from his circumcision ceremony - With all the wonder of a child he walked to a Hindu Temple. He goes to a Red Flower.

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Book titles spell out declarations of love from a shy young woman to a gorgeous reader in the rare books room of the British Library.
 
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Eleanor wants to change her life. She needs to. It's evident in her bank balance, haircut and love life.

Followed by a ferocious documentary film crew, she aims to capture the story of her attempted life change, to make sense of it, and emerge as a new person, a new character.

Her mission gets somewhat messy when a Turkish playboy, an estate agent with motherly guilt and an old friend from University crash into her new life, and the film depicting it, messing both of them up.

A story about persona and identity, life in a big city and individualism, the film examines relationship between one’s character, and the 'character' one portrays, playing with the inevitable tension between life and storytelling.

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A couple are returning home on a congested motorway when they are faced with a split-second decision which will either save or destroy them.

As a single second becomes more like ten they complete a seemingly impossible manoeuvre and drive clear from the incident in an eerie silence.

How could they have escaped when the odds were stacked so much against them?

And why do they feel as though they are strangely out of time with everything else?

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A twisted adaptation of the original folk legends of Little Red Riding Hood, from before it was mutilated by the Brothers Grim.

Little Red meets the wolf. But he'll live to regret the encounter.