Projects in genres: Drama

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With Scotland in the World Cup in the summer of 1978 everything looks rosy but 13-year-old Stephen is more into Glam Rock than football. The clash between the world of his football-mad Dad and the lure of the high camp of Slade, Bowie and the Sweet is inevitable.

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An old woman negotiates the hectic streets of London, fearful of being knocked over. At a pedestrian crossing her worst fears are realised as she collides with a rollerskater.

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Two young lovers argue through the use of body language.

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An impressionistic story of a day in the lives of eight characters overlapping stories on the streets of Southall, linked together by a single event.

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Shashi is in love with a white boy in Scotland, so her parents pack her off to India so that her Grandparents can arrange a more suitable match.
 
But none of them have reckoned with Grandfather.

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Daniel, an ambitious and handsome detective sergeant (Nick Moran) takes on the tough contemporary world of a teenage girl in Brighton. But to the dismay of his police partner (Victoria Scarborough), he is relentlessly stalked by a fifteen year-old gang leader (Lara Belmont) who dreams of escape for them both to a romantic tropical Island. As their mutual and forbidden desire increases, events move inexorably to a denouement of tortured and sexual longing and eventual tragedy.
 
Hayley's gang of fourteen year-old girls are on the rampage, mugging young male tourists on Brighton's sea-front. Hayley is half-adolescent and half-woman, as raw and violent as any male counterpart, and just as calculating. She is determined that they will escape their poverty, their crumbling families and dead end prospects by stealing enough money to leave Brighton. The gang thinks she wants to go to London. However, secretly Hayley has almost saved up enough money to take them to Bali, a tropical paradise full, she imagines, of beautiful, androgynous young men. Here she and the gang will find the happiness they crave.
 
When Hayley sees Daniel, a young detective, arresting a robbery suspect she is transfixed. Charismatic, handsome, tough but also strangely vulnerable, he personifies her desires. She falls in love and lust. She must have him at any cost.

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In the late 1950s, when her husband Max (Hugh Bonneville) takes up his post as deputy director of a remote psychiatric hospital, Stella Raphael (Natasha Richardson) and her young son, Charlie (Augustus Jeremiah Lewis) are brought to live on the grounds of the asylum.  Stella is soon drawn to charismatic inmate Edgar Stark (Marton Csokas). Undeterred by the warnings from her husband's colleague, Dr Cleave (Ian McKellen), Stella is prepared to risk everything to be with Edgar. Their passionate affair escalates as obsession begins to threaten Stella's love, her sanity and her very life.

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What do babies see when they dream? An animated exploration of the mind of the director's sleeping three month old boy. Watch out for those bunnies.

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Seated in an unusual bar, a slightly intoxicated and rather troubled man is offered an ominous looking cocktail intriguingly named 'baby's blood' by an altogether too pleasant bartender. But will he drink the simmering concoction or will he let his imagination get the better of him?

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A naive young poet pays a visit to his intemperate mentor, with surprising and amusing results.

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Julia Lambert is a celebrated and glamorous actress, famous throughout England and happily married for years to her agent, Michael. But underneath the artifice, she is tortured by her fading looks, her philandering husband and her estranged son. When she meets Tom, a young American fan, she is swept off her feet, and embarks on a secret and passionate affair which threatens to create a social scandal that could destroy her career and marriage; until she discovers he has had an ulterior motive all along. There is no way that Julia Lambert is going to be taken for a fool, and she plans her revenge, the ultimate act of a woman scorned.

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A Yorkshire milltown in 1957. Ellen Hardy is unhappily married but is close to her ten year old son, Victor. The family has recently moved house and Victor has started at a new school where Ellen has become friendly with his teacher, Kathy Thompson, who is keen to encourage him at art.
 
As the friendship between the two women grows, Ellen's millworker husband, Hardy, feels increasingly alienated at home. Meanwhile, Ellen's sister Alice emigrates to Australia to start a new life and soon the Hardys go on a disastrous seaside holiday.
 
Will Ellen - torn between her duties as a wife and mother and a fear of admitting her feelings for Kathy - also have the courage to break free emotionally and follow her destiny when she returns home?
 
A homage to classic British films such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, Between Two Women is the first feature from North Country Pictures - committed to bringing to an international audience top quality stories that reflect the history, culture, and literature of the Pennine region past, present, and even future.
 
"A poignant, refreshingly contemporary tale of love across the class barrier" - Radio Times.
 
"The script, acting, and directing are top notch. If this film had been produced in Hollywood,  it would be synonymous with the word Oscar" - Toronto Free Press.
 
"The bleak industrial cities in the north of England have been the settings of many a gritty drama. With Between Two Women writer-director Steven Woodcock has made a notably lyrical film amid a grim setting" - Los Angeles Times.