Projects in genres: Drama

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After the death of their father, Madeleine invites her sister Dinah to stay in her elegant London home. Madeleine's husband, Rickie, is now effectively head of the family, and a man of persuasive charm and sophistication. Efforts to find a husband for the free-spirited Dinah seem to pay off at last, but having announced her engagement, Dinah is secretly told by Rickie to call it off. The reason remains unspoken - as they are both aware of a profound mutual attraction. So begins a wild affair, as Rickie and Dinah's illicit passion spirals into deception, offering ecstasy and despair in equal measure and, finally, as the sisters attempt a reconciliation, an insight into the heart's capacity for forgiveness.

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May is 65. An ordinary granny from the suburbs. When her husband dies she finds herself thrown upon the mercy of her far-too-busy metropolitan children.

Stuck in London, far from home, her kids abusing or avoiding her, she feels that life for her is more or less over.

Until... The granny from the sticks, the old lady you don't even notice in the supermarket, the broken woman who's life is finished, falls headlong, suddenly, rapturously, disarmingly, girlishly, carnally in love.

With a man half her age. (Who just happens to be fucking her daughter as well)

From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi comes another brilliant and shocking slice of modern metropolitan life.

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Arriving in England from America in search of her father, Courtney Francis, a young, insecure woman, finds her hopes of being able to start a new life with him in pieces when she discovers he has long since started a new family. Without care she runs away and soon finds herself lost in the deserted back streets of London where she is immediately in danger as two muggers attack her.

She escapes them and finds refuge hiding in a large rundown hotel. Here she is offered accommodation if she works to pay the rent and with seemingly no more choices she resigns herself to living there. But soon Jenny Stein, a charismatic professional woman, arrives to collect debts from the hotel. The two become close and decide that the solution to their lives' problems is to steal drug money from a sleazy character, Carl Wilson, who is at the hotel for one night. However, the two women quickly find this plan leads them into great trouble and Courtney realises that her only way to escape is to overcome her fears and return to the hotel's haunted room.

The story is haunting and thrilling. Courtney goes through a dangerous journey in discovering her self-worth.

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It's almost graduation at University. Paul has decided to throw one last party before everyone leaves, and sees what could be his final chance to impress gorgeous Susan. Sadly he didn't count on his friends, who interrupt and interfere every step of the way as they go about their own business in this comic take on student life.

Sex, drugs, alcohol and lightbulbs are all discussed in this film which shows what boys and girls really talk about.

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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past when he falls for Paula who is grieving over the death of her brother. One thing stands in the way of their happiness and his salvation; the discovery that the man Paula loves is her brother's killer. The Poet shows us that we can't choose love; it chooses us.

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The Prodigal, the man in the middle, as gangland warfare erupts on the streets of Birmingham!!!

For years Ronne McGann has controlled the Birmingham underworld. Now one of his ex-employees, Micky Harrington, is treading on his patch.

Vic Stevens, having just served a prison sentence, yearns to start afresh. Having a one-night stand, though, with a mysterious woman turns out to be more than he bargained for and soon Vic becomes the 'pawn' as gangland warfare threatens to erupt. Will Vic survive and will he choose the right side?

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The sudden death of Laura leaves her boyfriend, Hash, torn between feelings of love and betrayal. A troubled mind begins to distort memory as this tense drama unfolds. Did Laura really love him? Was their relationship everything it seemed? Drifting through levels of consciousness, questioning his own existence and haunted by treachery, Hash makes a most unexpected decision.

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An American businessman and his wife's lives are turned upside-down by the British co-worker he has come to London unknowingly to replace.

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A drugs-dealer double-crosses and kills a drugs trafficker in the remote West Coast of Scotland. The dealer gets arrested and finds out he was seen by a couple of local people. Sitting on remand facing life imprisonment, with only two unnamed witnesses from the one street hamlet of Bartoun standing between him and freedom he decides to hire a hitman to kill all the potential witnesses.

Outside a rural police station the hitman starts a stopwatch, jumps into his car and sets off down the road. He drives at full speed through the barren country roads until he pulls up in Bartoun. He jumps out of the car and stops the stopwatch. It reads 28 minutes 36 seconds.

At noon the next day the hitman strides down Main Street, pulls out two handguns and starts shooting. Once his intial attack is over he starts his stopwatch, sets 28 minutes 36 seconds, counting down. This is how much time he has to kill everyone in the village before the police can possibly get there. Pandemonium follows within the village as he methodically hunts down his targets and people frantically try to stay alive.

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A bittersweet drama depicting the sentimental education of a young man who encounters all manner of women. Betrayal, lust and loneliness are encountered on his search for love, meaning, and the understanding of the opposite sex.

Matt's entire world turns upside down when his girlfriend, Deborah, leaves him for a new life in America. The repercussions are extensive, affecting all around Matt - particularly his closest friends, Vinnie and Susie, who try in vain to cheer him up. While Matt begins the long road to recovery, meeting several women in search of new romantic vistas, Vinnie and Susie's relationship comes under increasing strain. Matt soon realises that Susie is in love with him - and, worse still, that he is in love with her.

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The Veranda is about a young artist, Victor, who tries to find silence in his actions and work. He finds it in dialogues with nature; he becomes obsessed and devotes his life to 'The Gaps', which to him become a mystical separate world that defy comprehension. Diving into this discipline, he loses his wife Josy, his friends and everything else in his life.

The actions Victor performs to find these Gaps are seen worldwide; cleaning sections of desert, or walking a mile and watering the parched land, just to see what happens. He places a tree in ice, cleans shadows on the road laid down by trees, polishes rocks at Whitby, and takes 1000m of string across a huge valley to make a Stringbridge - These performances, actions or Happenings are all to find something 'other'.

We meet Victor before and after his fifteen year quest. After various meetings with Charlie, who comes from the silent world he strives for, Victor has to decide between the faith of his Gaps and his last links to humanity, his sister Mina and his daughter Jo.

Winner - Best Foreign Feature Award, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 2002.

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Spike and Heaton are the unlikeliest pair. Taciturn, competent, unreadable, Heaton is someone we are instinctively afraid of. In contrast, his side-kick Spike is manic, child-like, unstoppable: someone we are instinctively afraid for. But when Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton stands by him. There begins a chase across a vast Northern landscape of moors, rivers and dark woods, the increasingly exhausted fugitives being hunted not by the police but by a posse of farmers intent on revenge. No ordinary chase film, This is Not a Love Song is a love story trapped inside the body of a thriller.