Projects with status: Complete

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The Edinburgh Samba School has been playing Brazilian samba around Scotland for ten years. This year they and their kilted mascot, Hamish, join the drag parade kicking off Brazil's famous Olinda Carnival.

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Carol and Nancy is the story of how a tragedy brought two very different families together.

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Initially an exercise in what might be achievable with a digital video camera, one actor, one location and no budget. Filmed in a squat in central London, it is a not entirely serious, ten minute insight into one mans self justification of the suicidal game he plays through his over inflated ego and lack of common sense.

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Two men and a woman meet in a deserted junkyard. But love, betrayal and an old holiday photograph leave only one survivor . . .

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This documentary is more than anything a film about punk ideology told by punk survivors. The characters have been faithful to the 70's riot, have developed their aggression into reflective thoughts and opinions. In making our film we have discovered the extremes within this community and how, after more than twenty years, the music is still as popular today.

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After a couple's home is burgled, the girl falls for the housebreaker.

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Conquest is the story of a North American prairie town: of a young man who believes that despite the town's decline it is still the most wonderful, beautiful place on earth; and of an exotic young woman from the north of England who has travelled the world in search of a place to belong, and despite her reluctance may just have found it.





Conquest has seen better days. Most people have moved away and those who have stayed are getting on a bit. Except Pincer Bedier. At 32, he has returned to run the small bank and he is not afraid of spending his bank's money to keep the town alive! The most cynical is Grace Gallagher, a woman in her 70's who has never given up on her dream to live in a real place like Rome.





Beautiful and mysterious Daisy MacDonald lands in town when her sports car breaks down. To Daisy, Pincer's town is the end of the earth, the last place she can see herself staying. Her presence begins to perk up the town. Daisy however has found herself with a problem. She's fallen in love with the banker.





In this off-beat romantic comedy, almost everyone gets what they want. Grace finds a way to escape. Pincer finds a way for his dreams to live on and Daisy finds the nerve to get off the road.

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This programme presents the experience of fatherhood through the eyes of 10 very different men. Their personal stories will help all prospective fathers understand and cope with the changes in their lives that parenthood brings.

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It was Flora Wesley's West End stage debut in 1968, in the role of Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull, that launched her to international fame. Thirty years later she is rescued from a hermetic alcoholic existence by an exploitative producer . . .

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The summer of 1936, when the action of Dancing at Lughnasa takes place, is beautiful, but Europe is on the verge of terrible change.





Through that glorious summer, at the very edge of Europe, in Ballybeg, Donegal, the Mundy family shelter in their small home - five sisters, one brother and Michael, the love child of Christina, the youngest sister.





The film is seen through the eyes of the boy. He feels the joy and security of his close-knit clan, but its secrets and sorrows begin to break through. The arrival of Michael's father, a Welsh man, Gerry Evans, on his way to fight for Franco in Spain, unleashes repressed passion. The Eden of Ballybeg is changed forever.





They meet their fate bravely. The memory of that summer haunts Michael forever, memories of love and loss, of women dancing, dancing as if their lives depend on the dance - and they do.

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Sam is about to enter the priesthood and is in turmoil. He is seeking a way of reconciling his past as an artist with his new life.

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Dead Cow Farm is a short animated film which uses a variety of film techniques to illustrate Robert Graves' 1917 poem in which ideals are lost.