Projects with status: Complete

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This documentary is about current attitudes and knowledge of HIV/AIDS. Directed and presented by David Graham and Garry Wall, both long term survivors of the condition. The film is set against a background of London's Mardi Gras Festival 1999 and is an up beat and non-judgemental documentary with a specially written techno soundtrack.

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To Have And To Hold is a film about the consequences of a car crash. Trapped in a car, a woman struggles through grief and pain towards a decision that will save her life.

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Chester and Doreen Barnes seem like any ordinary couple. The thing is that they are not! Chester is an aging Superhero Captain Miracle who has hung up his cape. However, the normal humdrum inertia of their retired lives is constantly under threat from Dr Nightshade, Captain Miracle's age-old nemesis.

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The film is a music video following Gintare herself in a state of meditation as she travels around the world. She journey's across oceans and deserts until she finally reaches her true destination, a place of amber light.

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On a rural housing estate in a satellite of Bristol, three boys create havoc for a retired couple, Frank and Lil.

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Annie-Mary is an awkward and secretly rebellious 20 something still living at home in a village in the Welsh valleys with her womanising widowed father. Moral support comes from the odd collection of characters who make up the population of the village but it takes a series of calamities with unexpected silver linings before Annie-Mary can finally stand up and claim her freedom. Very Annie-Mary is a joyful, poignant film about striking out against the odds, and winning in the most eccentric way.

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Voices Through the Veil - Surviving the Practise of Female Genital Mutilation is a document of the issues surrounding Female Genital Mutilation in the UK. It explores the issues surrounding the practise and is told in the words of survivors.

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An innocent flirtation between a man and a woman across an empty tube carriage late at night turns sinister. The man alights with the woman and trails her as she walks home. But as he turns down a side street, she begins to follow him.

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Melancholic postcards of beautifully ugly places, old age, anger and bewildering complacency. A dance film about what it's like to be a Welsh Boy.

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Three years ago, Lawrence Ledbetter, a brilliant, but crooked accountant had a get-rich-quick plan that needed a run-down town and a set of corrupt local businessmen and officials. One day he walked into Weyback. Every phase of the town's regeneration scheme made The Fellowship, as Lawrence called the Weyback fraudsters, richer and were soon laundering Russian Mafia money, Then, Lawrence left town with half The Fellowship's and all of the Russians money. Now Lawrence is back in town and with the Fraud Squad circling, the Russians wanting their money and The Fellowship's new leader wishing the obvious imposter dead. He just about manages to keep one step ahead, surviving car-crushing plants, deep river mud, shoot-outs and strangulation. He finds comfort with a night club chanteuse but then finds himself on the wrong end of her gun when the wedding in the bedding goes badly. Led to him by a crazy ex KGB mole and armature ballon strangler, the Russian hit man and his rubber-suited female colleague, Lawrence finally realises what must be done and enlists them in the dead of night under Weyback's new motorway, to serve justice so Lawrence can once again leave Weyback for good.

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An intriguing mixture of moody film noir and modern-day western, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? is the third feature from Pilton Pictures after the controversial The Priest And The Pirate and romantic comedy Happy Ever After. Trading on genre cliches of cheating hearts, two-timing friends, avenging angels and the iconic influence of Clint Eastwood, it is laced with a dark humour that lends a distinctively Scottish flavour to some quintessential American ingredients. 'I think it's very European in the way it was shot, but quite American in the way it deals with narrative,' explains writer/producer/director Hugh Farrell. 'It is a kind of hybrid - a sort of haggis-noir western. I also think people will find it very funny and respond to the talent of first-time actress Sam Tonks.' Devised, rehearsed and shot in a breathtaking eight weeks, the project brought together a dozen first-time actors to work on fleshing out a script, developing their characters and testing the storyline. Shot in 16 days, it made the low budget its aesthetic, seeking creative solutions to financial obstacles. 'People have embraced the Dogme school of film-makers as a breath of fresh air and a different response to the sometimes overwhelming industrial process of making films,' says Farrell. "We've found an energy and immediacy in that kind of highly condensed, pressurised way of working that we chose.'

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Agricultural Terrorism. Bad news from the rain forest for chocolate addicts. Witches' Broom, Crinipellis perniciosa, the incurable fungal disease that leaves dying cocoa plants looking like a witch's broom, spread by persons unknown for reasons unknown, perhaps a grudge or wish for revenge, has decimated the groves of Bahia, Brazil. Evidence suggests there has been deliberate agricultural sabotage. Brazil, formerly one of the largest exporters of cocoa, no longer has any cocoa to spare. But there is hope. Scientists may have found a solution to the incurable disease, witches' broom. They have discovered a method of grafting and cloning resistant trees. This means diseased groves can be gradually replaced. But is it too late?