Projects in genres: Drama

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A love story of obsession and sharp teeth between a woman left behind in a fairy tale gone wrong and a merman trapped in a reality that drowns him. She, the hunter; She, the trembling little fish.

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As a hard-pressed family struggles to get home after a days shopping, a young girl discovers that mum doesn't always know best.

Sweetie follows seven year-old Tash and her family - mum Lynn, dad Kevin and little brother Ewan - as they attempt to catch a bus home after a day out at the local shopping centre.

Life is sweet, until they discover that they don't have the correct change for the bus and are subsequently 'thrown off'. Watched by a voyeuristic crowd both on the bus and at the bus stop, small actions and reactions cause more problems and humiliation for the family.

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In this urban ghost story set in a supermarket, we find our heroine Isabel resigning her self to a life of shelf stacking and shop displays at Cheapi Cheapi Cutz, where Stanley the manager bosses her around and memory of her mother undermining her, grinds her down.

She is forced into action, however, when she is visited by a very unusual ghost and given an ultimatum she cannot refuse!

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A young girl witnesses her parents' slaughter by an outlaw who thinks she's an angel.

Years later he is a Bible-bashing Sheriff about to hang Sarah, a whore. But Jude, a lone cowboy, saves her. Through their journey, Sarah's feelings for Jude grow.

But Jude is the 'angel' in disguise and has to kill the Sheriff before she is ready to love the whore.

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'Eddie' Ahmed is waiting to be interviewed for a new job. The interview is for a job he never even applied for but Human Resources seem to know what they're doing.

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Three minutes to sell yourself! 'You ask what can I do in three minutes? - I only need one, the other two you can have back'.

The tribulations of a deluded bit part actor, full of braggadocio and wonderfully portrayed by John Henshaw, as he is about to meet his nemesis.

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Based on the critically acclaimed stage play by Glyn Maxwell, The Best Man tells the story of Bailey, the best man at his oldest friend's wedding. In his search for anecdotes to embellish his speech, Bailey has stumbled across a secret so shocking that it change everything. And now it's time for his speech. Just what does he know? How much will he reveal?

Moving between the fraught wedding reception and the darkest moments from their past, The Best Man is a tale of love and cheating - with a sting.
 

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A chance encounter with Kevin, the father of her child, leads Sharon to an uncomfortable truth about the nature of their relationship.

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A casual jog in the Yorkshire countryside suddenly becomes a wild sprint for his life when, attempting to evade her ravenous guard dog, Jack desperately takes a bicycle from a cantankerous old crone.

Set in the medieval city of York, England, The Bike Thief unfolds in a series of farcical conflicts that spiral out of control as a result of Jack's original theft. Featuring a riveting international cast and stunning photography, this hilarious thriller is guaranteed to set everyone's wheels spinning.
 

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The Boat People is a psychological thriller. Jared is taken to the coast by his new girlfriend, Alice. They stay in the seaside cottage she has owed all her life with her sister, Cleo. As soon as he gets there, Jared begins to have haunting dreams of a distant exotic land. The dreams excite Alice. Even more weird is that when Cleo unexpectedly turns up, she somehow seems to know what happens in the dreams without him telling her. Gradually Jared realises that the sisters are using his dreams to uncover a long-buried secret from their childhood, when they lived in Vietnam and their parents were brutally murdered. But who was the murderer? And why does Jared begin to feel that his life is now threatened?

As the landscape and the house reveal their secrets, Jared becomes more and more drawn into the twisted world of The Boat People. First they take over his dreams, then they take over his mind.
 

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'The Corner Shop, part of the British landscape for more than forty years, is in steep decline'.

A film crew spend a day documenting an episode in the life of an ageing Asian shopkeeper. As the day unfolds, something is revealed, which may hold the key as to why 'The Corner Shop' is fast approaching its imminent end.

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A nervous youth awaits a rendezvous in a derelict urban landscape. But his meeting is with someone entirely unexpected and reveals that his world is surprisingly different from what we imagined The Drop offers us a poignant glimpse of a post-apocalyptic moment.