Projects with status: Complete

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This is the tale of Vinny Gusto, a teenage lard ass, cookie addict. Soon realising he is a disgrace to his family, we follow his bulging butt on his quest to turn fat boy into fat fame.

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A story about a man who has reached the end of the road and, in a time of change and new hope, realises that after leading a life of crime the price of redemption may ultimately be too high. Mikey is a small-time gangster who runs a successful table dancing club and he's about to radically change his life. He's been on a personal development course and it's high time to re-evaluate his life experience and change himself into a better person. But someone else is also looking for him right now - a killer with a contract out on him. Mikey knows that the killer is in a club that evening, waiting for the ideal moment to strike and he must put all his personal plans on hold and deal with this life threatening crisis. Mikey decides to cleverly turn the tables on the killer and hold everyone in the club hostage. Using techniques he has learnt on his life-changing course, he begins to seek out the identity of his mysterious assassin. Although Mikey may be able to deal with his killer in the club that night he may not be able to eventually deal with himself.

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Based on an old German students' song from Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot', the film is about a poor starving dog who decides to venture into the kitchen in search of some nourishment. However, the kitchen is a dangerous place, and he finds more than he bargained for.

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'There is no beginning'. 'There is no end'. 'There is only the infinite passion of life'. A Launderette is the setting for a meeting between two unlikely characters, Caron and Alan.

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Jamie and Ben are two students faced with the age old trauma of getting out of bed in time for lectures and into bed with the girl of their choice, until they come across a bag filled with several pounds of hash that's been hastily discarded by a slimy local crook. Here is the gateway to a fantasy term of dulled brains and newfound popularity: 'the answer to all our troubles' reckons Ben, floating inches from the ceiling, 'financial, social and spiritual'.

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In the twilight world of a CCTV surveillance centre, Watchers scan the screens looking for trouble, and looking for signs of life. Then, both come in the form of a pretty young woman, and fact and fantasy collide, to shocking effect. But the darkest secret of all remains hidden.

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Danny collects debts. Martin tags along. Until today.

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Twelve year old Chloe is sick of moving house. As soon as they get settled in one place, her Mum gets in trouble and they have to move to another cold, run-down Burnley council house. Mum, Chloe and brother Gary, are driven to the new estate by wise-cracking Neil, who takes a shine to Chloe's Mum. As they bundle their few possessions into the house, Chloe meets Kelly, their sparky next door neighbour who is her age. Kelly and Chloe strike up a friendship, talking about boys, sharing cigarettes and Kelly introduces Chloe to lighter-fuel sniffing. At home, Chloe gets constantly picked on by Gary. Her mum does nothing to help; she is too wrapped up in her drinking and depression. From her bedroom window Chloe begins to notice the older boy over the way. His name is Lee and the two of them find they have their bad home lives in common. One night Chloe witnesses Lee being beaten up by his dad. The next thing she knows, Lee pulls up outside in a stolen car. He is running away and Chloe begs to come with him. They go, but Chloe ends up being picked up by the police and taken home. Things go from bad to worse and Chloe deteriorates fast. Finally Chloe has had enough. She leaves and there's hope in her eyes. She is getting away before it is too late. A made for TV film.

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50-year old Sharkey travels to Bosnia with a false identity and under the disguise of a UNICEF envoy. In fact, he is engaged in the illicit trade of smuggling children into Western Europe. Sharkey has been sent to Vitosice by a Polish lawyer in order to pick up a small boy. But his contact in Vitosice has been murdered and the boy he was sent to collect is not there. Sharkey runs into an army patrol. The Colonel in charge forces Sharkey to take his daughter out of Bosnia to her family in Germany. A gang of youths blows up their jeep with a landmine which kills the Colonel's daughter. Sharkey and the Colonel survive. Shortly after the incident, Sharkey stumbles on the gang of youths, beats their leader in a game of cards and wins a child. Next morning the 10-year old Vlado and Sharkey set off to Poland. In an old vehicle they travel through war-torn Bosnia, not knowing that the Colonel, who wrongly blames his daughter's death on Sharkey, is close behind them. On their way out of Bosnia, Sharkey and Vlado gradually develop a friendship.

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Interactive drama-documentary (online, broadband, full-screen full-motion video) about oral cancer.

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An unusual love story between a young Glaswegian male carer and an elderly Japanese lady. From their mundane council estate lives blossoms an inspirational exchange of experience, culture and romance, crossing the boundaries of time, place, generations and imaginations.

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The story seeks to give some semblance of truth about the initial arrival of Europeans in Africa, which eventually leads to slavery and colonisation. In the advent colonisation in Africa, one woman, Yaa Asantewa, refuses to hand over her land for British rule. She leads a tiny army to wage war against the British. This country was the centre of the slave trade and also had the largest reserve of gold at that time. The story unfolds in late 1471 when the Portuguese arrived on the West African coast in search of gold to mint coin currencies in Europe. Before their arrival, the Arabs were the main traders who also indulged in human trafficking. This factual documentary looks at the part various African tribes and Europeans play in slavery and its consequential effect. When slavery was abolished, colonisation also took over culminating into the scramble for Africa.