Projects in genres: Drama

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Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment all plague people of African descent globally. Why? Five hundred years from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedoms. Why?

Filmed in five continents, 500 Years Later examines the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 500 Years Later is a timeless and compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right – freedom.
 

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One continuous five-minute take of escalating human drama, captured unwittingly on a camcorder.

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Kojo is a taxi driver living and working in Ghana. Sleeping on his break he is awoken by a beautiful young travelling actress called Cynthia. She’s in Ghana for the day and hires Kojo to show her some tourist attractions. The day ends with a sexual encounter and a reluctant promise from Cynthia to invite Kojo to England.

Six months later Kojo arrives on Cynthia’s doorstep in London. Filled with ambitions of making money and fulfilling his dreams of succeeding as a poet, he soon realises that the grass isn’t greener on the other side and people are not what they seem.
 

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The city of London has a beauty about it, but can sometimes be lonely for its inhabitants. Starting at dusk and ending at dawn the next morning, this film explores this idea of loneliness through four different scenarios showing the full gamut of life and death in the city, and exemplifies how indifference can exacerbate this plague of modern times.

Visually expressive and highly emotive, this film, though only five minutes long, works on a scale (visually and emotionally, that is) as big as the city it portrays. It is made using traditional forms of animation, as well as new forms such as computer animation, all skilfully composited together to convey feeling and emotion and life in an intuitive, expressive way.

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Mother lies in bed; her daughter sits nearby in uncomfortable silence. To raise her mother's spirits, the daughter takes her on the imaginary road trip of a lifetime. Mother and daughter travel via Paris and Hollywood, and return home again as friends, without ever having left the room.

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Inspired by a true story, A Mind of Her Own tells the poignant and moving tale of Sophie, a determined young girl whose ambition to become a doctor is obstructed by her severe dyslexia. But Sophie, encouraged by her closest friend Becky, has never been one to give up and, despite being advised by parents and school teachers to be realistic and pursue something less academic, she puts herself through college and university, in the process achieving a first-class degree in biomedical science and a PhD conducting research into post-trauma regeneration of the spinal column, which ultimately leads to her achieving worldwide recognition for her work and helping to develop a cure for paralysis.

A Mind of Her Own won a Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival in 2005.

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Set in the ancient magical city of Sana'a, Yemen's first-ever feature film follows the lives of a few individuals during a day that soon becomes local legend. The neighbourhood eagerly awaits the wedding of the year, unaware of the inner turmoil of the groom as he realises the woman he fell in love with was not the wealthy bride-to-be, but rather a low class orphan gypsy. Love, gossip and envy irrevocably changes the lives of all those concerned, forever. Ultimately the groom has to make a choice between marriage and tradition or love and the unknown.

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'When I was drinking I thought drink was God. But the truth is, God don't need no alcohol'.

Forced into sobriety, Vinny has had to re-invent his very sense of himself. He fully embraces the 12-step programmme of AA and makes it no secret that he owes his newfound strength and direction to allowing it into his life. But in dedicating himself to AA, he has also found the perfect, protected environment for his own twisted ego to flourish and thrive.

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A story of unrequited love. Sarah is a receptionist in a London estate agency. She is in love with Mark, one of the agents, except that he does not know it. Today is Mark's birthday and everyone goes out to celebrate. Sarah suffers in silence and acts out her pain.

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A sensual story about the nature of obsessive love.
 
Michael, an astronomer, is on the brink of a new discovery, which he believes will explain what connects the irreversible and unavoidable consequences of fate in the Universe. When a chance encounter brings him into contact with the mysterious Caroline, a French photographer, an all-consuming love affair follows. But as the relationship becomes more intense and intimate, a series of events starts to make Michael doubt what is going on around him, forcing him to question what is real and what is not.
 
What happens to a relationship when love becomes an obsession?
 
What happens when you love someone so deeply that when they die you refuse to give them up?

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A story of forgiveness and reconciliation. Billy blames Maggie, his aging mother, for her unwitting role in the loss of Tina, his young daughter. As the events of their past are replayed in the present Billy finds the family he thought he'd lost.

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Against Nature tells the story of a dangerously decandent aristocrat and his unlikely 'friendship' with a tramp. Inspired by the fin de siecle novel, A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature is an intelligent, thought-provoking film about the dangers of luxury and excess, and the thin line that seperates kindness from cruelty.