Projects in genres: Drama

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To set the scene - the year is 55 B.C. The Romans are beating a bloody swathe across the European continent. Any nation daring to defy them is swiftly and brutally crushed into servitude. Mighty Gaul has just fallen and Rome has set its sights upon a small, cold and rather damp island across the narrow waters of the Channel.
 
Now, with the Romans invading, it is up to three sisters to save their country from the bonds of slavery.
 
Smirgut - Magnificently strong, she towers over most men and then beats them into unconsciousness with a large club.
 
Dwyfuc - Exquisitely beautiful  and irrestible to men, she is also very spoilt and something of a control freak. 
 
And finally, Worthaboutapig - the youngest, plainest and undoubtedly dumbest of them all.
 
Gladiatress - A tale of three sisters against the entire Roman Empire. With a little help from the Gods, an emormous amount of luck and a really big axe - they just might be able to do it.

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Charming black comedy about a shy young boy forced to deal with the death of his best friend. By using his fertile imagination and passion for electronics, the boy temporarily resurrects his friend. However, things start to change when the dead friend takes on a life of his own.

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Somewhere in London, two people tired of being alone, find themselves chatting on a dateline. As they talk their confidence grows. They both begin to talk about themselves in more elaborate and exaggerated ways. Finally they agree to meet. The initial excitement evaporates as reality kicks in.  They can't possibly live up to the ridiculous images they have created in each others minds - or can they? (Written, shot and edited within 48 hours).

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The film follows the story of a young boy named Will who is so traumatised by his mother's death that he retreats into silence. One day he meets Randall, a friendly but flatulent talking goose, who helps him regain his voice. However he soon discovers that the school principal, Congreve Maddox, is fattening up the goose in preparation for the Gourmand Gastronomique, a Christmas cooking competition. Will and his friends hatch a plan to kidnap Congreve's mother for ransom and the caper begins.

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A successful middle aged businesswoman receives a letter from a childhood friend who 'grew up to be a murderer'. Tension mounts on her journey to visit him at a mental institution, bringing back memories of a seemingly idyllic seaside holiday spent as teenagers in 1950s England.

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Hank is continually interrupted by Marty, his alcoholic neighbour, but after Marty confesses his love for the hot young girl stuck in a basement room because she can't afford the rent, Hank takes down some cheap whiskey and checks her out for himself.

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It's the mid 1980's and Rosa is having a bad summer. She's 12, her feminist mum is picketing a local sex shop and the girls at school are making her life hell and - she doesn't know what 'coming' means.
 
'What's 'coming' mum?' Sex education in the 1980's is a nightmare for 12 year old Rosa.

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Fifteen years ago in the French rural village of Basquerville, Jacques Sykes executed all the adults in a brutal act of revenge. Now, after escaping from a mental asylum, he's on the hunt again in the guise of his first victim, a telephone repairman.
 
The following day, eight students arrive in the region to party at a remote cottage, ignorant to the massive manhunt ensuing. Amongst the dysfunctional group are couples Owen and Amy and Faye and Jenny, techno-geek Lewis and his prim sister Rachel, Winch the moron and Dutch hitchhiker, David.
 
As night falls, their frolics are rudely interrupted by a police officer. Warning them of the escaped assailant, he soon becomes the next victim.
 
As tensions fray and suspicions rise, the atmosphere quickly turns bleak as the group find themselves trapped, dispersed and, one by one, at the mercy of Sykes and the tools of his new trade.
 
During the bloody night, Sykes stockpiles his prey into a makeshift morgue until Rachel, the sole-survivor, exacts a fitting revenge upon Sykes and puts an end to his relentless killing spree.
 
Six months later, Rachel has struggled to rebuild her life in the city. Unbeknown, Sykes returns to finish his job enforcing the premise that no one escapes the 'Butcher of Basquerville' alive!
 
Hacked Off carefully blends humour with chilling horror to create a fulfilling homage to the traditional slasher movie.

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In a Lifeless, toxic world of broken machines and yellow skies, two robots try to create a living human.

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A man's life told entirely via his signature as he refuses to fit between the lines.

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Simon and Emily enjoy a designer lifestyle, complete with toddler Toby - a child they have little time for. Luckily Toby adores Yelena, their Croatian au pair. Thanks to her, Emily never has to get up in the night. Not so Simon, who visits Yelena's bed while Emily snores. For him it's just easy, on-tap sex. But for Yelena it's love.
 
When Yelena falls pregnant, Simon persuades her to have an abortion. Fearful of losing her job and the visa that goes with it, and desperate to keep the man she loves, she reluctantly agrees. Or so Simon thinks. But when Emily announces her own pregnancy, Yelena tells Simon she never went through with the termination. Either he persuades Emily to keep her on, or Yelena will reveal whose child she is carrying.
 
Emily agrees, more out of self-interest than charity. Good help is so hard to find.
 
But then, with both babies due any day. Yelena suddenly returns to Croatia - much to Emily's annoyance and Simon's relief.
  
The blackmail seems to be over. But the revenge has only just begun.
 

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Harold just wasn't like the other pigs. So he ran away, joined the circus and became an instant star. But will the big lights destroy our contortionist hero? Find out in Harold the Amazing Contortionist Pig, a wonderfully comic tale of trotters, jam jars and a lioness called Linda.