Projects in genres: Drama

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A romantic comedy drama, Summer Rain tells the story of three girls living together in Brighton - Britain's sexy and funky coastal capital. Tangled relationships; one night stands; frustrated ambitions; love and friendship are at the heart of this modern coming-of-age story.

At her 21st birthday party Michelle (Clea Smith) breaks up with her long time boyfriend Gary (Paul Vaughan Evans), but he has other ideas and will do anything to win her back. However, Michelle meets charming young executive Michael (Charlie Watts) complicating Gary's campaign.

Poor little rich girl Vicky (Lara Clancy) has become a slave to daytime TV and she is kept down by her slacker boyfriend Colin (Paul Maddocks) but she still has dreams and is forced to face them with the return of Carly (Daisy Beaumont).

Becky (Cath Sampson) is due to take her finals at University - If only she could stop clubbing and messing men around, especially Neil (Charlie Allen).

Armed with only chocolate and ice-cream together they face the world, falling headlong into their twenties, realising that it is time to start growing up - but how? After all, into every life, a little rain must fall.

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Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time.
On Sunday 30 January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday, an event that was seen as a defining moment in Irish/British relations.
Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/State's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates both the forensic and the emotional truth of what happened.

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Set on the day of the solar eclipse. A young boy returns home to a less compassionate reception from his father, while a woman struggles to see her daughter.

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A passionate love story between two brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Britain's Poet Laureate.

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Set in 1970s Salford, amidst a forgotten landscape of decaying half demolished post war slums; 10-year-old Alan and his family make their way to the clinic for Mum's regular injection of Largactil, a torpifying drug intended to subdue her 'schizophrenic' inner voices and visions.
 
Alan takes upon himself the responsibility for holding his family together. He negotiates the two worlds his family inhabit: his mother's vivid inner world occupied by demons and angels, and the stark reality of everyday life haunted by poverty and the ever-present threat of the social services splitting up his family.
 
To others Alan's family is a world of 'spazos', of madness, neglect, and eccentricity - a dysfunctional family. To Alan, it is his family.

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American art appraiser, Patrick Donovan, is sent to Venice to
authenticate three classical paintings belonging to the famous Galleria
dell' Accademia. Arriving during heavy rains, he finds the Galleria besieged by floods and closed to the public. With the floodwaters rapidly rising, he examines two Bellinis and confirms that they are indeed authentic but before he can get to Giorgione's The Tempest, it is stolen in a violent attack which leaves Donovan and Chiara, the beautiful daughter of the director of the Galleria, injured. Police and media interest is high and Donovan unwittingly finds himself at the centre of the investigation into the disappearance of the priceless masterpiece.
 
What follows is a highly stylised and complex web of mystery, intrigue and betrayal which unfolds against the ghostly backdrop of the Venetian
waterways. Donovan determines to uncover the truth behind the disappearing painting but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt art collector, a petty thief and, ultimately, a deadly seductress.

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The fourth and final part of the My Job troilogy: A terrorist talks about her job.

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AD 575 - A shipwrecked maiden, Henini, must marry the mercenary Chieftain Cathen, but on her way to him she is kidnapped by the Angle tribesman Aedgar, who sees she has land, money and a troublesome entourage. She is carrying a holy relic to Scotland and must safely deposit the bones of St Andrew to Saint Mungo. However before she can do this Fingal, the warrior is assigned to give her safe passage - a journey which leads to her abduction and entrapment in a nunnery. Can Fingal save her?

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A small boy wishes he could be taller. A modern fairytale that follows a young boy's ingenious way of dealing with his 'height', the end result is not the one he imagined.
 
This is a 'coming of age' tale in which a young boy finds himself and blossoms into adulthood.

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A mysterious bridge seems to hide a secret: who crosses it, will experience strange phenomenons like whispering statues and bizarre sounds that seem to attract the wanderer into a trap. Jan, the central character, is at first intimidated by the bridges eerie atmosphere, but decides to dig deeper, finding more than he bargained for.

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When The Bridge of San Luis Rey breaks, five travellers are precipitated into the gulf below. Was it chance or the hand of God that brought these five together at that fatal time in that place? Or were they in some way responsible, themselves, for what happened? These questions are raised with uncynical compassion and answered by Wilder with an indirect affirmation of the power of love.
 
Set in early 18th century Peru at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, this timeless story of delicately interwoven lives traverses worlds as diverse as the theatres, convents, brothels and docks of Lima, Peru to the sea-faring explorations, scientific institutions and courts of Madrid, Spain.
 
'Soon, we too shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten, there is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love,
the only survival, the only meaning.' (Thornton Wilder, 1927)

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Based on the poem by John Oxenham, The Burdened Ass is the story of a shell-shocked and disturbed British soldier who deserts the trenches of World War I only to find the answers to his questions in the actions of a kindred spirit; a simple donkey.