Projects

Synopsis

Shaun Mosley's The Three Kings is based on one of the most famous stories in the world - the journey of the three magi to Bethlehem to honour the birth of Jesus Christ.



Paul Freeman, Neran Persaud and Kwame Kwei Armah star as the three wise men, while Ron Moody, best known as Fagin in the film Oliver, is the evil Herod and Vanessa Redgrave a high priestess.



Mosley, whose debut film was Alec, spent several years researching his film and then teamed up with Rod Turner, a producer whose previous two films, Let's Stick Together and Intimate With A Stranger, earned him the reputation of someone who made films that made decent returns for their backers. Turner then scanned actors' directory Spotlight for the faces to fit the characters and struck lucky - apart from Freeman, Redgrave and Moody, he also cast rising star Sienna Guillory as the European magi's daughter who, after the death of her brother, accompanies her father on his travels.



With the budget raised from a number of private backers, filming began in late summer last year in Tunisia.



The film recently premiered at the Emden Film Festival in Germany and Turner hopes to see it at key UK festivals in the autumn.

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After 1997's Strong Language, The Truth Game is the second film in writer-director-producer Simon Rumley's trilogy about young people living in London. It takes that most mundane of social gatherings -- the dinner party for six old friends -- and turns it into a tale of secrets and lies that soon spiral out of control.



"The film is an investigation into what truth really is and whether or not it matters in society today," says Rumley. "I've always found it very interesting that the truth is something we're told should be adhered to but in fact the pillars of society who tell us to be truthful are actually the ones who are being



anything but.



"Writing and directing it the way I have means I'm saying, 'Look, here's a bunch of people and they're all getting on with each other but they're also all lying to each other'. The audience is the omniscient, all-seeing eye."



Strong Language, released in the UK earlier this year to critical plaudits, was, in fact, the second instalment but was rushed into production when financing for the first film, Club Le Monde, fell through.



Rumley kept the budget of his follow-up, The Truth Game, low, aware of the pitfalls of aiming too high with a second film. He teamed up with Piers Jackson, who financed it through his Screen Production Associates. Shooting began in October last year, with a large Georgian house in London the sole location.



Rumley is now on the verge of signing a distribution deal for the UK, something he was keen to do before taking the film abroad. "The support you get from a UK distributor can boost its chances internationally," he says.

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A black comedy of hilarious proportion about two pensioners who embark on a Thelma And Louise-style adventure in crimplene slacks.

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An aged landlord is persuaded by a foreign student to let her an apartment that has been locked since the death of the previous tennant years earlier, with terrifying consequences for the girl.

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The Valley is a journey deep into the killing fields of Kosovo, at the height of the carnage in September 1998 - months before NATO bombs fell. Uniquely, The Valley views the conflict from both sides, through the eyes of men and women trapped in Kosovo's bloodiest combat zone : the Drenica ('Dre-nee-tsa') Valley.

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Life, love and everything via a transatlantic phone call.

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Keen flyer Nigel Horne met ex-fighter pilot Rami Dvir when he was flying at Hull airport and discovered they had another interest in common -- film-making.



Horne was writing screenplays, while Dvir had already made a short, Memento Mori. The pair started developing ideas together and drew on their airborne experience to put on a one-act play about the disappearance of a jet at the Bristol Old Vic drama school.



The play, Broken Skies, developed into a screenplay, which the two are currently trying to get off the ground. In the meantime, Horne began work on a film that was less ambitious, budget-wise. He came up with a story set around a pub crawl and the result is The Wedding Tackle, a comedy love story set over the course of an all-day stag party.



Reluctant groom Hal (James Purefoy), his bride-to-be Vinni (Susan Vidler) and their friends get caught up in a series of schemes when Hal has a change of heart. Adrian Dunbar plays swimming coach Mr Mac, recruited by Hal to seduce his fiancee and give him an excuse to call the wedding off, while Tony Slattery is Hal's sexually frustrated cartoonist friend Little Ted, who himself has a crush on Vinni. Providing the soundtrack are British hits from the 1960s.



Dvir and Horne are developing two other scripts besides air drama Broken Skies: a thriller called Bloodstone and a road movie, E Is For England, which is being co-produced with Dreamwords-Foxxy Films. The Wedding Tackle is released in the UK on August 11 through Ratpack Films.

Synopsis

Hal, an oversexed photographer, has a problem. He is due to marry Vinni in one weeks time and he's got cold feet. In fact, he's got frostbite. His friend, Little Ted, a scheming, sexually frustrated cartoonist is obsessed with Vinni, even though he dumped her when they went out together. Both Little Ted and Hal have their own plans to disrupt the imminent wedding and they separately call upon Mr. Mac, a world weary swimming coach, to help them out.





On Hal's all day stag night, Little Ted sets in motion a disastrous chain of events when he persuades Mr. Mac to convince Petula, (his ex-girlfriend) to seduce Hal in a pub lavatory so that he can record it on Polaroid. Hal, the meantime, wants Mr. Mac to seduce Vinni so that he can catch them in flagrante, giving him the excuse to call off the wedding.





Meanwhile, Vinni has decided that she has no intention of marrying Hal and gate-crashes the pub crawl in order to finally have things out with him. In this Machiavellian comedy of errors, there is no saying who will end up with whom.

Synopsis

A black comedy of hilarious proportion about two pensioners who embark on a Thelma And Louise-style adventure in crimplene slacks.

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What seemed like a good idea at the time can result in an error for all to see forever. As unbelievable as it may sound, Thistle is based upon an actual occurrence.

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Two girls are timing a third girl who is underwater. They're waiting to see if she can hold her breath for three minutes, but can't agree when the clock started.

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Three-minute Wonder explores the qualities of that burning, midsummer heat which makes colours too bright and causes everything to shimmer. The summer holidays which in childhood just seem to go on forever.