Projects with status: Complete

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Like Father portrays a family in crisis, focusing on the dislocations of grandfather, father and son.

Pigeon man Arthur Elliott, a seventy-year-old whose working life in the pit gave him a strong sense of identity and pride, is losing his allotment to the local authority's coastal redevelopment scheme.

Working as a trumpet player, a teacher and a club singer, running an agency for club acts, Joe Elliott, forty-years old, an ex-miner, can just about scrape a living out of his music, but he is losing his wife.

Ten year old Michael Elliott, living with the pit village folklore and the wreckage of the coal industry is left to grapple with his own realities. Each of the three generations is struggling to come to terms with the past and find the ties that bind them.

The three separate, but essentially integrated worlds unfold against the rich and extraordinary backdrop of East Durham landscapes and locations. Development of the film began in 1998, its dramatic content originating from actual lives and the unfolding of real events. Incorporating documentary situations, the film features strong performances from both professional and non-professional actors alike. Strongly committed to nurturing latent natural talent, Amber took the bold step of casting local people with no previous acting experience in each of the three main roles: Ned Kelly as Arthur, Joe Armstrong as Joe and Jonathan Dent as Michael. Joe Armstrong, himself an ex-miner, wrote the brass band suite which features in the film as a commission for his character Joe Elliott.

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When a group of friends take time out from clubbing to dabble with a Ouija board, what starts out as a high-spirited prank soon dissolves into a horrific and surreal nightmare. The Ouija board spells out the message ALL DIE, suddenly the friends are involved in a series of eerie murders and doubt and terror replace the previously happy bonds of friendship. One of the group is finally forced to face up to the demons in his family's past and resurrect his own childhood memories in order to overcome the intangible dangers of his own friends' future. The killer is closing in, but is he of this world, or some place far more sinister?

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Craig and Dean are looters. Breaking into cars and flats on the local estate, they're on a fast track to nowhere. But for Craig, an unexpected encounter is about to change all that as he begins to contemplate life only when faced with death.
 

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Two nesting couples look forward to a quiet Sunday at home. However, when Gill from upstairs invites Ashok and Hayleigh up for a cup of tea, the cracks begin to appear.

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Lost is adapted from the second play in the trilogy Making Noise Quietly. The film centres on the meeting of a young naval officer and a grieving mother. With the Falklands War as a backdrop, the film follows Geoffrey as he meets his best friends Mother (May) and tells her the painful truth about her dead son.

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Two unseen narrators fall in love and comment on a series of glittering images. They discover their symptoms are the same as those of Mercury poisoning. A film about science, transformation, and tragedy.

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From the director of 'The Full Monty' comes a prison escape comedy with a musical twist.
When a group of prison inmates co-operate with the Governor in his ambitions to stage a musical, little does he realise this is Act 1 of their escape plan.

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A story of a lonely adolescent girl, living on an isolated farm in the middle of nowhere, who creates her own friends: the eggs she finds in the farmyard, making her own magical world to retreat herself from her violent, abusive father and her mentally ill mother.

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In an isolated Cornish fishing village, a small boy breathlessly announces that a giant is washed up in the local cave. While the men of the village are out fishing, the women head for the cave. Who or what is inside? Only Maisie seems to know.

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Making Mimi is a documentary about one of Britain's foremost exponents of Arabic dance. Half English and half Sicilian, Wendy Buonaventura has pioneered the development of Arabic dance as a theatre art in the West through her writing, choreography and performance. This documentary follows Wendy as she rehearses a new show with her company of all female dancers. It also travels with her to the Arab quarter of Granada in southern Spain to reveal the Islamic art from which she draws her inspiration and to explore the history of this profoundly bewitching dance form.

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Mary has a hot date. She arrives at his house, nervous and excited about the evening ahead. The meal is delicious, the wine and conversation flows and all goes well until Mary's date decides to make a move. And then, something very unexpected happens.

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Rejection in love can be tough, even when there are good reasons for it, but Gary isn't prepared to take it lying down.