Projects with status: Complete

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A dream within a dream within a dream within a crash.

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Live action characters venture into a neo-futuristic shopping mall and are then corrupted and distorted by their own desire for consumerism. The animation breaks through the live action shell and reveals savage desires then reconstructs itself - the world is never the same again.

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Dramatised documentary about Rachel Gunzig, Resistance heroine and Communist spy. Rachel worked for the Red Orchestra, the WW2 spy network betrayed by West and East in the Cold War. A tale of adventure and ideological conflict, and the poignant story of a mother and the son who was the victim of her idealism.

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One Thursday morning Randall, one of life's natural wasters, awakes to find the door to his flat jammed shut and that his ex-girlfriend, Tabby, wants to buy a kilo of coke, price no object. Enter Phil, Randall's best mate. Dangerous and psychotic some say, unless you live in a permanent drug induced haze and don't notice, as Randall does. Through Tommy, their schizophrenic dealer, they acquire the necessary amount of coke and set things up to sell it on at double the price. A fact they quite sensibly conceal from Tommy and his boss. Randall and Phil wait at the bar for the courier to show up with the gear.

The next morning Randall is wakened by Phil discovering a bloody corpse on the living room floor. This triggers a seemingly incomprehensible descent into confusion and death for them both. Threatened by an American drugs baron, fuelled with a cocktail of drink and drugs and spurred on by the promise of a £20,000 reward they struggle to discover the truth behind this bizarre turn of events.

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The 1981 Toxteth riot was the most violent civil disturbance in Britain this century. Over three days more than £11 million worth of property damaged, 1,000 police injured, 500 people arrested. Citizens of the deprived area reacted angrily to high unemployment and years of racial harassment from the police.

Hearing from the rioters, community leaders, victims, local and national government members, this unique documentary recalls how this situation escalated out of control. Ordinary people caught up in the riots gave their views and accounts as to the reasons for, and the inadequacy of the authorities' response to, the days of disorder and destruction.

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The story deals with the conflict and cross-cultural tension experience between a British educated African man and his black American wife in an African setting.

The film revolves around Emma, a black American who grows up in America's deep south. Her dream is to settle in Africa where, she believes, people will not view her with suspicion, but accept her as an integral part of the human race.

Kofi Boateng, the husband, is born of African parents having lived in London since the age of sixteen. He is an architect with a multi-national firm. He refuses to go to Africa because he believes the continent is not developed enough to appreciate his talent.

By sheer coincidence these two characters meet in a nightclub in London. For Emma it is a dream come true, because of the possibility that one day they could settle in Africa. Whilst Kofi also sees this union as a way of eventually living in America.

The story unfolds, ten years into the marriage in London.

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This programme tracks the demise of three redundant robots as they attempt to re-assert meaning into their empty lives. The film takes a satirical view of this popular television format, combining stop motion animation and computer layering to explore the characters and their emotional dispositions.

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When misanthrope Russell Square falls under a tube train he imagines his troubles are over. However when he finds he has fallen out of reality into a nowhere called The Gap, inhabited by an angel called Islington, he realises his troubles are just beginning.

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June 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte, surrounded by enemies, is about to play his definitive part in history. No problem. That's his job. The trouble with Boney is that he is already sick of himself.

He has spent his whole life building a personality full of strength, determination, charisma and mystery. But as happens to some rock stars, he now finds that 'super-leader' image asphyxiating and almost unbearable.

Meanwhile, one of his aides, the marechal Hugo Armani, has only one dream: to be like his idol, his sun, his guide, his Emperor.

During the battle of Waterloo, Armani's secret longing breaks through the frontier of desire to become first an obsession, then a severe neurosis and, finally, the first case of Napoleonic Delirium in modern psychiatry.

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In the middle of nowhere, Joe's mobile rings, a voice tells him to look in the back of his car.

It's just the beginning of a nightmare of no escape - and what he discovers in the forest across the dark waters of the lake will change his life forever.

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School Disco is about embarrassment. Set in pre-teen school gym, we follow a number of likely lads and lasses as they try out their bogus 'adult' personas for the first time.

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Shy bank clerk escapes into the world of his dreams.