Projects in genres: Drama

Synopsis

An allegorical story of the dividing line between reality and unreality, NUCLEAR is about a young girl losing the protection of her mother, forced to navigate a hostile world alone.
Following an act of violence committed by her own brother, Emma escapes with her mother to wild, open country, where they find refuge in an isolated retreat in the shadow of a nuclear power station. Fearful that her brother will return to continue his act of violence, Emma has to confront her own ghosts and her own guilt in order to be free of her toxic family.
Official Selection Warsaw Film Festival 2019 - World premiere

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A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen-year-old son who is groomed into a lethal nationwide drug selling enterprise, a 'County Line', which exploits vulnerable children and traffics them across Britain.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Debate Strand - World premiere

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When Jane is dumped at the altar she has a breakdown and spirals into a chaotic world, where love (both real and imagined) and family relationships collide with both touching and humorous consequences.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Dare Strand - World premiere

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1657. Fanny and John Lye and their young son Arthur live lives of Puritan stricture on a remote Shropshire farm in a valley beside a forest. Once a Captain in the English Civil War, now a firm believer in Oliver Cromwell’s republic, John suffers a game leg and therefore it is Fanny who must carry out most duties around the farm, taken for granted by both husband and son.
One morning, when the family are out at church, two uninvited visitors take refuge in their barn: the charismatic Thomas Ashbury and his young ‘wife’ Rebecca Henshaw, who come running from the forest naked as Adam and Eve. Thomas tells a story of robbery by vicious highwaymen. Although suspicious, John offers clothes and shelter for the night - which satisfies Fanny’s compassionate nature.
Whilst the young couple are polite, almost obsequious at first, soon Thomas’ carefree manner can’t help but reveal itself: he makes seductive eyes at Fanny and then draws Arthur into a food fight, for which - despite Thomas’ protestations - the house patriarch disciplines both wife and child. The next day, as Thomas and John coppice wood, Rebecca accidentally reveals to Fanny that she and Thomas are unmarried.
Soon after, three more strangers approach the farm: a Sheriff and his Deputy, accompanied by the local Constable, hunting members of a blasphemous ‘Ranter’ sect. From here, events quickly escalate in ways that will change all their lives forever.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Competition - World premiere
Big Screen Competition, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020

Synopsis

Lynn and Lucy are lifelong best friends, their relationship as intense as any romance. Neither has ventured far from where they grew up. Lynn, who married her first boyfriend and whose daughter is fast growing up, is delighted when the charismatic, volatile Lucy has her first baby boy. Lucy, however, does not react to being a mother as Lynn expects. Soon, they find their friendship is tested in extreme circumstances.
Feature directorial debut from the director of the award-winning short film RATE ME.
Official Selection San Sebastian Film Festival 2019 - New Directors Competition - World premiere

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Tensions rise on a remote holiday park when Ruth, who has just moved in with her boyfriend, is haunted by an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - First Feature Competition - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020
Official Selection South By South West 2020

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In 1990s Scotland a choir of Catholic school girls travels to Edinburgh for a music competition, but they're more interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning any prizes. Set over the course of a single day, this is a fresh coming-of-age story filled with energy, wit and raw humour.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentation - World premiere

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15-year-old Leigh is a gymnast focused on her first competition on the squad. Leigh’s life is turned upside down when her older half brother Joe, who she didn’t know existed, comes to stay with her and her father. But when her confidence at gymnastics is knocked, Leigh finds herself caught up in an underground world of moped crime with her brother. Starting to find excitement and the attention she has been so desperately needing, Leigh stands at a crossroads between her gymnastic dreams and an exciting new world...
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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An unremarkable newsagents sits between a courthouse and a business centre. It’s here that sparks fly between well-dressed Kyle and the equally poised Jamie. Yet despite their composed outward appearances, both are struggling to move on from hardships they’d rather keep hidden. As their feelings for one another blossom, these difficult pasts resurface threatening their relationship before it has really even begun.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand - World premiere

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Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Headline Gala

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When a reclusive woman falls in love, it’s easy to fall with her in this tender and sensual story of shocking self-discovery.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand
BAFTA Film Awards 2020 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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The Withnail generation had children... and Owen is one of them. His memories of his wild childhood weave a spell on him – or was it the acid he accidentally took as a child? Weaving her spell too is his mother, the free-spirited Marianne. She is supposed to be on her deathbed – but she's not going quietly. The family gather at their crumbling farmhouse for her last birthday. Among the stones and the animals, they prepare for battle. Owen struggles to free himself from Marianne's web and win back his ex-partner Caroline. Along the way he must reckon with uncles, babies, brothers, sisters, children and dads. Love, pain, laughter, wine – and mushrooms. Everyone in this family longs to be free. Their quests play out like a game of hide and seek in the old house – a curiously timeless space full of secrets rich and strange.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand - World premiere