Projects with status: Complete

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Another Life is a true story. Set in Edwardian London, it is the colourful and moving account of Edith Thompson, a woman wrongly accused of the murder of her husband, a case which became a 'cause celebre' of its time. Beginning of 1909, the film traces the heady days when Edith falls in love with and finally marries her childhood sweetheart, Percy Thompson. The First World War follows during which time Edith becomes gradually disillusioned as Percy reveals himself to be a coward, dodging his military service. Her whole world is changed when she meets the handsome Freddy Bywaters and she soon embarks on an affair with the young sailor. When the couple indulge in foolish fantasy, inventing unrealistic schemes to do away with Edith's husband, Freddy translates the game into reality, stabbing Percy to death as he walks home from the theatre with Edith. Despite hugh public outcry and Bywater's adamant assertion that she had no hand in the killing, Edith is found guilty of murder alongside her lover, and they are both sentenced to be hanged. Edinburgh International Film Festival - NBX review: Set in Edwardian London, Another Life is based on the true story of Edith Thompson, a woman wrongly accused of her husband's murder. Natasha Little (a This Life graduate who has since starred in the BBC's Vanity Fair) plays Edith, a career woman whose husband Percy Thompson (Nick Moran) is stabbed to death on a dark night in October 1922. As Edith recollects her past, we are introduced to Freddie Bywaters (Ioan Gruffudd), a sailor with whom she embarks on a passionate affair. When the lovers indulge in a fantasy to do away with her husband, little does Edith realise that Freddie is about to translate their game into action. Writer-director Philip Goodhew first started researching Edith Thompson's story a decade ago, at the same time as he uncovered the material for his first feature Intimate Relations. Goodhew and producing partner Angela Hart of Boxer Films set about getting the project off the ground in 1996 and the £2.5m budget was finally raised in 1998. Ioan Gruffudd was the first actor on board. "I saw a trailer of him as Hornblower and was stunned at how similar he was to the real Freddie Bywaters," says Goodhew. Nick Moran, from Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, was a more unusual piece of casting as the dullard Percy. "Most people will be wondering what he's doing playing that role because its a period piece and he's not playing the baddie," says Goodhew. Another Life was shot over six weeks at the end of 1999 at Three Mills Studios in Bow, East London and around London.

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Vera Fairfax (Susannah Morley) believes she has achieved everything she could wish for, through social climbing and marriage to a powerful bureaucrat. That is until her husband Robert (Ian Swann), meets his match in his former protégé Cadogan (Ian Good). Cadogan's manipulation of the apparatus of this totalitarian state, results in Robert's death and Vera being turned into a non-person. Abandoned to the whims of Cadogan's unseen manipulation of the state system, Vera has only one possible course of action - to seek a fitting revenge on Cadogan.

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Set at the end of World War II in no-man's land, two lone characters journey the hostile environment intent on escaping the surreal horrors surrounding them.

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'One man, One space - The seaside; his home, heaven and hiding place. After his fathers funeral, bewildered, lost, confused as a man, he seeks solace as a child. Mourning his loss with memories, through the safety of naîve young eyes.'

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The film sets out to explore fear and prejudice and whether we make choices through conditioning and/or upbringing.

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An 'eye-level' view going with Scottish activist Cathy McCormack to South Africa to see how her fellow activists are faring, making intriguing parallels with her own life in the Easterhouse housing project, in Scotland, and theirs.

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We follow the ups and downs of a toddler's day, alternating between the baby's point of view and that of the harassed, unseen mother.

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A little girl's bad dreams are a refuge from a much more disturbing reality.

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In a run-down bus station in the North East, Clint takes pity on a hungry man. He gives him some sandwiches that his dad, Johnno, asked him to guard while he attends a job interview. When Johnno returns and sees that Clint has given away their lunch, he snaps.

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Adam's camp; Steve's camp. Dinner sets things straight, naturally.

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Matt and Ross leave Birmingham behind for a weeks holiday in Brighton. Matt is cynical, love can't touch him. Ross meanwhile is a nervous mothers boy on the verge of another breakdown. The film follows the lads' antics and subsequent liaisons during their week away. Matt drives into the local prostitute scene while Ross is seduced by local girl Kelly, who takes a firm hand with him and his rubber wearing fetish. Matt's desperate for love, even though he doesn't realise it, and Ross is getting all the love he can handle. At the end of the holiday, the question is, do they return home or start a fresh life in Brighton? Beach Boys is a fresh, touching and unusual take on male sexual angst.

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A remarkable journey through the mind of a young man as he battles against a mental illness and his past.