Projects in genres: Drama

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An introspective journey seen through the eyes of a man and woman from their childhood to (a painful decisive awareness of) adulthood. The wish of recovering innocence, the most meaningful way of Existence.

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Phil's Job is all consuming. It's late at night and he's working in 'his' office. It's pretty much business as usual until someone else wants to use the phone.

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He is one of the biggest selling recording artists in world music. But no one knows who he is. He has never performed live or appeared on film or TV. No photograph of him has ever been printed, yet his records continue to sell in their millions.

A young journalist sets out to solve the mystery that is Phoenix Blue. Following a fragile lead, she is drawn into the world of Internet cyber-hacking and the dangerous sport of freediving. In her pursuit of the ultimate story, she loses almost everything - her career, her identity, her life.

Her belief pays off as Rachel reaches the Caribbean, where she discovers a complex young man living on a super yacht under the control of a ruthless woman. Events then spin out of control, resulting in murder, intrigue and the unravelling of Phoenix Blue.

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A short film set in East London, looking at the rituals that take place in a school-yard over a period of time amongst a group of boys on the threshold of manhood.

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Set in Harlesden in 1999, the film begins with the shooting of Plato Armanani by police marksmen. He and his friend, Raoul, are criminals under surveillance. As the pressure of the surveillance increases, Plato starts to crack up. He is isolated and alone. He falls out with his girlfriend, buys a gun and vows to use it on one of the cops. He shoots a cop after a boxing match, and goes on the run. Raoul tries to track him down and finds him suicidal at his mother's flat. Raoul and his girl, Raine, try to get him to safety, but they are all run to ground and Plato is tragically shot.

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This comedy takes a riotous look at small town Welsh country life centered around competing funeral homes.

Boris Plotz, Director of Plotz Funeral Homes, dreamed of only two things as a young boy... dancing and Betty. Betty secretly loved Boris, but could not fight her father's wishes, so she was married off to a gold digger. Boris gave up his dreams and took over the family's undertaking business. Everything has remained status quo in their lives until Betty's mother-in-law dies. Boris and Betty are thrust together again and as they discuss the funeral arrangements for Betty's mother-in-law, the old spark is rekindled.

Her funeral will be held at Plotz Funeral Homes, much to the chagrin of rival funeral director, Frank Featherbed. Featherbed, an American, is determined to revolutionise the undertaking business in England through the innovation of 'theme' funerals.

Boris discovers that the only obstacle between their love for one another, is her marriage to the two-timing Mayor. In a desperate bid for happiness Boris and Betty decide to stage her death and run away together.

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Life is full of mysteries and codes to crack and that isn't easy when you're not from 'round here' and you're ten (especially when your parents have split up and you're receiving messages from alien galaxies!). A story of outsiders, an alien and the shipping forecast.

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Based on Spike Milligan's legendary comic masterpiece, which has sold over five million copies to date, Puckoon is a politically true, politically incorrect and profoundly funny tale.

It's 1924, and the Boundary Commission from Britain and Ireland is deciding on the new boundary line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

After months of haggling over every inch of territory, the commissioners are forced to finish the job by hand, after a bicycle accident destroys the surveyor's equipment.

With all the participants holding the pencil, and much pushing and shoving, the border finds its way down the middle of Puckoon, dividing house from outhouse, man from wife, pub from bar, church from cemetery. Our hero, Dan Madigan, wakes up from his indolence to find the beer cheaper on the wrong side of the pub, and a border patrol demanding passports. Puckoon will never be the same again. Something has to be done.

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Quite Contrary tells the tale of a bored man. It is both a study of loneliness and a patient, quiet film. Emotionally blank, the man is compelled to fill his moments with incident. The distractions he stumbles across, a lawnmower, an ashtray, Mary, are pleasurable and frivolous. They cannot be maintained. The man does not enjoy himself, but rather avoids a lack of enjoyment.

With others drawn to him, and with a natural urge towards introspection, the man is forced to make decisions with consequences. Quite Contrary is whimsical and sad, as is the man. Both are fictitious.

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Eddie Harris is a 'normal' dad, who loves his life, his job and most of all his family.

His philosophy is honesty and frankness and agrees with his wife Jeanie to be totally open when answering their children's questions, no matter how embarrassing. This backfires when their daughter stumbles in on them making love, and proceeds in all innocence to regale her school with her inside knowledge of carnal pleasures. Jeanie is asked to see the Headmistress who is slightly concerned at the level of Katie's knowledge and at a picture Katie has drawn of Eddie dressed up as a 'rough old granny' as part of a bath-time game.

Eddie soon finds himself being investigated and, in an attempt to keep his family together, is forced to exile himself from his family until the matter is dealt with. While in exile Eddie gets some misguided advice from his best friend Cliff and embarks on a quest to become a 'normal' dad again.

'Re-inventing Eddie' - based on the critically acclaimed West End play 'One Fine Day' - has a theme that is extremely relevant and ultimately timeless, resulting in a quest that is a funny but extremely poignant and moving journey of lost innocence and false accusations.

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Uncared for by the community, Rick, recently mad, is looking for somewhere warm to commit suicide. Instead he finds George, a downtrodden doormat of a man, recently separated. In turn they stumble upon the smouldering, embittered, man-mountain that is Joe, recently bereaved. One game of pool and several drinks later these three disparate men are thrown together on a journey no-one wants to take, to a destination no-one believes exists, chased by a man no-one should meet - Then there's the Hippies, George's ex-wife, a robbery, drugs, amputation, muggings, Brownies, the Police, explosions and this really, really gorgeous girl.

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Relativity is a funny, sexy, look at the fragmenting family. Seven-year-old Cielle, her black British mother Marcia and latest boyfriend Frank describe a minor domestic 'accident'. One event, three different versions. But which, if any, is the truth? By chance, Cielle reveals the comic absurdity of modern existence.