Projects

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Jump Tomorrow weaves the drama of a road-movie into a humorous tale of passion, romance and friendship.

When introvert George meets a stunning Latin girl, they are both instantly smitten. The only problem is that he is due to marry a childhood friend from Nigeria in just four days. An eccentric and lovesick Frenchman named Gerard stumbles into George's life and the two embark on a road trip.

During this odd couple's journey to upstate New York, George becomes torn between duty to his arranged marriage and his fascination with Alicia's culture and the Spanish language. A sweet, timid man normally filled with anxiety, George begins to loosen a little - whether it's fantasising he's the virile hero of the Spanish soaps or chasing his true love up the highway.

A quiet man living a little, George learns to live a little louder.

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Jessica Parker is unhappy with a world where injustices happen every day. Added to which she's just been clamped, had no sleep - courtesy of a flat mate's over active libido - and is about to go bankrupt.
Well, that's it, she is going to do something about it and that she does in Just Desserts, a 30-minute HTV drama.
Directed by Vadim Jean (Leon the Pig Farmer) the drama follows Jessica, played by Hilary Maclean (Dangerfield, The Bill, Taggart) as she attempts to redress the balance of society barely worthy of its occupants.

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A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments seen under a magnifying glass can quickly confirm the existence of another world. In dimensions that fall between those of bacteria and the smallest of animals there exists a realm of life so diverse that you have to sit and wonder.

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Felix (Skarsgård) has decided to retire. He's pushing fifty, his girlfriend's pregnant and his protogee (Bettany) only reminds him of the great hitman he once was.

To pay off his stack of debts, Felix has to face his worst nightmare - to baby-sit Bubba (Penn), a thirty-year old man who's never left his room.

As Felix reveals a world of drink, music and women (McCutcheon) to a wide-eyed Bubba, Bubba begins to thaw Felix's icy heart.

But Felix's past is catching up on them.

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The son of a 70's rock star has to meet stringent conditions to inherit the family fortune when his father dies. Unfortunately his mates and greedy stepmum have other ideas and set out to thwart him - with hilarious consequences.

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The postmen of a small sea side town hope for a life and death situation to break the monotony of their routine. When Karen O'Donoghue returns home awaiting a transplant, all their lives are changed irrevocably by a pager sent by registered post.

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Three men meet in the pub that's been their local for 40 years. Only today someone's missing - or is he? Vic slides a box on the bar and takes out the urn of Jack Dodd's ashes, 'for one last look-in'. But why? Jack doesn't know. Or does he? As the men make their way to the sea, stopping at pubs, at Canterbury Cathedral, at the places that hold special meaning to them, they wonder - and they remember. The war, the children, the affairs, the disappointments and the ordinary triumphs. Like an emotional mystery, Last Orders slowly reveals who Jack Dodds was, and by the journey's end, like his friends, we find ourselves missing him too.

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A rare collaboration between BBC Films and BBC Documentaries, Last Resort is a moving love story which deals with the controversial issue of asylum seekers.

Tanya, young and naîve, leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom, to meet her English fiancé. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya and her son find themselves virtually imprisoned in a deserted seaside resort where all refugees are forced to live. They have no passports, no money, no rights.

Desperate to escape a nightmarish world of misfits and no-hopers, Tanya forges an unusual alliance with amusement arcade manager Alfie, an alliance which soon develops into something more. But is he just another man who will let her down, or will Tanya and Artiom finally escape?

'Paul Pawlikowski was given free rein to select the subject matter and devise the drama. He used improvisation, documentary methods and a documentary-sized crew. The end result is high-quality, low-cost film-making that has a power and individuality rarely found in more conventional drama,' says producer Ruth Caleb.

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A nervous, late-night rail traveller, waiting on a near deserted platform for the last train, is overcome by his own paranoid fantasies, as the station transforms into a hostile jungle and his fellow travellers become animals.

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An upbeat, oddball, after-hours comedy about the ups and downs of sex and shelf-stacking in the 21st century.

Four friends, Sean, Vincent, Jody and Lenny find themselves at something of a dead-end. Trapped in a twilight world of permanent night shift work they hang out together in the local all night café, where their only escape from the drudgery is observing Vincent's unwavering success in pulling women. There seems little prospect of change. But then events conspire otherwise .

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On a blazing hot day in London two unlikely friends set out on a mission.

Smiggy is an idiotic show-off who claims to have been in the army. Philip is a simple yet well-meaning supermarket shelf-stacker whose one ambition is to avenge his brother, who was left in a permanent vegetative state after a senseless attack by the psychopathic Darrel. On the day Darrel is released from jail, Philip and Smiggy set out to track him down, armed with the only weapon they can afford, a rusty old revolver which may or may not be loaded.

Unfortunately there are some holes in the ever-confident Smiggy's plans. He doesn't know that the Notting Hill Carnival starts today and that Darrel's foul-mouthed sexpot fiancée Julie is hoarding a large amount of stolen cocaine. Most importantly, Smiggy doesn't know about the effects of taking pure cocaine for the first time.

With the arrival of a drug-dealer from Reigate, a posse of angry Yardies and a crazed traffic warden, the scene is set for a very messy showdown as Philip and Smiggy determinedly try to deliver rough justice amongst the chaos.

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Liam is growing up in an Irish Catholic quarter of Liverpool in the 1930s, the youngest of three children. While he is at school trying to rid his 7-year-old head of the wicked thoughts that stand between him and the salvation of his immortal soul, his older brother is working, adding his wage packet to the household funds. Their teenage sister also does her part, cleaning for a wealthy Jewish family.

Money is tight but the family is a happy one; Liam's mother is caring and devout and his father is a responsible working man, proud to be employed when so many others are not. But hard times have hit the Liverpool docks and Liam's father loses his job. Helpless, embittered and determined to find someone to blame, he joins the local fascists with tragic consequences.

This is a child's-eye view of a family's free-fall into poverty during the depression, enriched by the irony and keyhole detail of a small boy's perspective.