Projects in genres: Drama

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Of Camera explores the abortive attempts of two people to be together in the same space. Their disagreement is fuelled by technical difference: the woman exists on videotape and the man on celluloid. The story corrupts as the two realise they are incompatible and that they are being filmed and watched.

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Fitz, Nellie and Seany, three lifelong, hapless friends, dream about the day they can leave behind their boring little village in the arse-end of nowhere in the Scottish Highlands. Nellie drives a mobile delivery van, and gets beaten up regularly by the other rival drivers on his turf. Having had enough, Fitz helps Nellie get revenge by sabotaging their opponent’s van by pouring sugar into the petrol tank and puncturing all the tyres.
 
Being a small Scottish village of limited resources, Nellie’s van is also used as a hearse, taking dead bodies to the undertakers. When Old Tam kicks the bucket, Fitz and Nellie, while wrestling his body into the van, discover a huge lump of gold in Tam’s fist. Fitz and Nelly charge down to the local pub, where Seany works, to deliver the good news about their newfound wealth.
 
Seany knows a shady character, Frankie The Fence, who will buy the gold from them, so the boys jump into the van, carefully stashing the gold inside a statue of Jesus on the dashboard.
 
Unfortunately, Big John, local small town gangster and owner of the van they have sabotaged, is lying in wait for them. His men ambush the boys and drag them off to his office, he wants £1000 in damages and takes their van as collateral – including the gold.
 
The boys hatch a plan to get the van and the gold back, though Seany, in a fit of blind panic at the prospect of double crossing Big John, confesses all to Harry, the Chairman of the Curling Club. Harry, who sees himself as the big fish in this very small pond, wants the gold for himself.
 
Their only chance now is to try and set Harry and Big John up against each other. But that’s like playing with fireworks: you know that somebody is going to get hurt.

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Two inner-city schoolgirls, Shaya and Monique, jump on the bus to go home. Monique sends a text to a boy they met at the weekend. Being best friends, the girls do everything together and share everything - up until this moment. Monique gets her first proper date and Shaya isn't invited.
 

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One car; Two men; One dead. At some time everyone will experience the pain of realising that a relationship they thought was founded on trust has been a sham. Ed eulogises for Dave, their childhood and friendship. Hero or Villain; who can say? Least of all Ed.

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Wendy is working alone in an office at night. Messages are sent to her through the computer by an unknown person who tells her he is coming to get her. She makes her escape - but how can she when supernatural forces are at play? What is real and what is imagined? Wendy is about to discover the true meaning of terror!

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Shot in Uganda. A short essay film commissioned initially for Documenta XI. It is a film that reflects on Bhimji's childhood home, Uganda, from which she was abruptly expelled during the Idi Amin regime. The film resonates with memory and personal history, illuminating the broader perspective of difference and aspects of Uganda's past and present. The film goes beyond Uganda to express broader questions of universal context.
 
'The work is not a personal indulgence; it is about making sense through the medium of aesthetics. It is a question that is close to my heart since the significant issues have resonance for me. I want to register these issues, to mark what has happened: elimination, extermination and erasure.'

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Out of the Cold is the story of Patrick, a ten-year-old boy growing up in a small coastal village and his fall from innocence into experience.

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By 2050, lifestyle is designed by the Corporate State. Unhealthy food, obesity, famine and war are illegal.
 
Martin Dwyer, a mid-level executive, reports to the Head Office for a routine review. Instead, he is invited up to the top floor, the Executive Floor.

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After an unnatural death comes an unnatural burial and a reluctant witness who is slowly losing his mind as he finds a parallel between the correct ways of disposing of a body and the improper. What happens when somebody dies in suspicious circumstances? 
PANINO is a psychological thriller which guides between what is a moral procedure and what is criminally insane. Directed by Richard Lawson, the central theme of the film is how one mentally copes with death. PANINO is a psychological thriller following the broken thoughts and accounts of a man under police questioning who losses his ability to distinguish between the real and the imagined world.

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Penny Collectors is about two children with nothing much to do and no one else to play with. They meet on a beach one summer's day and decide to go on a quest for pennies, to buy sweets, to try and make themselves sick.

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A thriller/love story set in a perfect world: the film opens up a brief window into the relationship between two lovers. Tension builds and their dark secret is exposed but, however twisted or shocking, Perfect  uncovers the very human drama of what it is to love and be loved.

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James Crocker: young, dashing and American, is having a jolly time in London; drinking, partying with unsuitable ladies and starting bar room brawls, earning him the nickname 'Piccadilly Jim'. That is, until his fearsome Aunt Nesta appears from New York, determined to drag him home, teach him some manners and get him a proper job. Jim has no intention of leaving until he claps eyes on Anne, Nesta's step-niece, and he is on his way to New York quicker than you can say 'Double martini, please barman!' Anne has never met Jim in the flesh, though knows about his fearful reputation, so Jim pretends to be Algernon Bayliss; teetotaller and upright member of society, until he can convince Anne to fall in love with the real Jim. But with temptation at every step, as well as his Aunt Nesta on his heels, will this be Piccadilly Jim's finest hour, or his final undoing?