Projects in genres: Drama

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An off-beat thriller set in a remote Welsh village. Teenagers Glen and Joe let Tin Man, the local tramp, take the rap after they accidentally kill Joe's girlfriend, Jenny.

14 years later, Tin Man is released from prison and a girl, Nicky, turns up. Nicky is a dead ringer for Jenny, and when Joe sees her, the guilt that has haunted him for so long turns into full-blown paranoia. Glen has to do everything he can to keep him quiet. But the enigmatic Sergeant Bracchi is sure that the real story was never told all those years ago, and sets out to uncover it.

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Heartlands is the richly comic story of a man who decides to give up his local shop and travel on an odyssey across the heartland's of England to retrieve his first love, his friends and his dignity.

Colin is a naïve, gentle man whose life is turned upside down when his wife leaves him for the captain of the local darts team. He follows them to Blackpool from the Midlands on his beloved Honda 50, stopping and meeting an odd variety of new friends on the road who in different ways help him work out what he has to do to mend his broken heart and salvage the rest of this life.

The film is a humorous tale of innocence seen through the eyes of a man who has never quite grown up and must, for the first time, confront the outside world. It is set in the beautiful, mysterious landscape of the Peak District in the North of England, populated by a bizarre collection of campers, ramblers and hikers all at one with their surroundings.

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It's 1982 and Matty's big brother Mark, joins the army and sees action in the Falklands War. When Mark returns, Matty witnesses the soldier's increasingly disturbed behaviour. While Mum fights to support her son, Matty realises family life has changed forever.

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'No longer restricted to zone three of the local buses, our dad took us on motoring holidays of a lifetime'. Using animation combined with treated album photographs to tell the real-life story of a shy and awkward father, who desperately wanted the family car to make him a better parent.

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It all starts simply enough - Alice's deflated childhood spacehopper finally gets a valve. A happy occasion indeed, but what starts off as just a silly affection for the 'big orange balloon', soon becomes Alice's funny-scary journey back into childhood. How far will Alice and Hoppy go?

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London 2001. The future has arrived, but Jaz and Naz are disappointed with the science fiction they grew up with. Until their unintentional involvement with a bunch of East End criminals makes a dream come true.

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Lydia has come to London. She wants to lose herself in urban anonymity; fade into the background of city life. She wants to forget the atrocities of the war she has left behind in her homeland, Yugoslavia. Her nightmares are filled with the horror of this war and, tortured by these nightmares, she is pushed to the edge of madness. But she is waiting. She waits to be followed. She knows he will find her and she waits to be found.

As children, Lydia and her twin brother Stefan, were witness to the murder of their parents; Lydia turned to the church and nunhood, Stefan to the gun and the ways of the devil. But Stefan, now a wanted war criminal, has disappeared off the face of the earth.

By day, Lydia makes frequent visits to Father Ignatius, seeking forgiveness for her brother's sins. By night, she is consumed by the vileness of these sins. She seeks peace and an end to the terror, to the waiting. But there are others she must deal with before the pain and suffering can end.

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John Bayley, adoring husband to the famous novelist Dame Iris Murdoch, holds on to what he can as the witty, brilliant Iris slips into the devastation of Alzheimer's. A poignant, poetic evocation of a modern literary legend confronted with true love.
 
Adapted from the writings of John Bayley.

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Ancient Egypt. A lump of solid gold is used to create the mythical crown of Cleopatra, a crown, which can convey enormous power to its wearer but also carries a deadly curse.

Present day, 1940s movie star Madeleine Duboit wants to commission ex-secret security expert, Jack Brown, to 'borrow' the crown from the British Museum so she can play her final role. Meanwhile Seldon Gotti - a vain and pompous businessman - offers Jack an enormous sum of money to steal the crown to fulfil his dreams of world domination. Jack, a man of morals, turns them both down until a series of threats gives him the impetus to join forces with Duboit, resulting in an exciting but unusual showdown at Gotti's lair.

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Thought-provoking tale of a teenage girl who, after being abandoned by her father, is determined to make a new life for herself and her kid brother: no matter what that takes.

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The story of an ordinary guy with an ordinary job enjoying a 'quiet' night in.

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Ronnie wants 'to be a somebody'. He buys himself a classic old Cadillac which he loves more than life itself. When the local loan shark comes after some money Ronnie owes, he hides the car and claims it has been stolen, aiming to get the insurance money and keep the car.