Projects

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Signs of Life is a film about a young woman who wanted to die, but didn't quite make it. Told entirely from the perspective of the central character, Sarah Ives, it is the moving story of a young woman trapped in a body diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. She can perceive what is going on around her, but is unable to intervene, to explain, or to express her feelings. Signs of life is an intimate film about the will to live and the power of thought in that process.

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Simon Magus is the poignant and magical story of an outcast called Simon, who is treated with a mixture of fear, suspicion and guarded affection by the Jewish and Christian inhabitants of a village in 19th century Poland. It is also the story of the village itself, a community in crisis now that the railway has arrived, passing the village by, taking away all its trade, and threatening its future.


Simon has visions and strange dreams, a fantastical view of the world. For some villagers, Simon is a harmless idiot, but in a place where people still believe in angels and charms, to others he is a magician in league with the devil himself.


The crisis comes in the battle to build a railway station and save the village. Maximillian Hase, moneyed, ruthless and determined to succeed, uses Simon's feelings of isolation to his own ends, employing him as a spy to root out his competition in the village's Jewish community.


The Christian Squire, a sensitive and lonely man with a passion for poetry, must be persuaded to allow the station to be built on his land. Dovid, a poor young Jew, realises that an appreciation of poetry is the way to succeed in the railway station bid. Only the city educated Sarah from the Jewish community shares this passion for poetry, but she and the Squire have never yet spoken. Dovid enlists Sarah's help to secure his bid.


Simon is seduced by Hase's bribes and is unwittingly playing a critical role in the battle for the railway. . .

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11,000 miles across the USA and back in a transit van with a rock and roll band, a pencil, a stack of A6 paper and 6 weeks in June to do it.

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Skulls, Angels, Mom & Dad shows a day in the life of Charlie, an East End tattoo artist. We experience the stories of her clients and her interaction with them.

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After the accidental death of his daughter, Paul's marriage is in trouble. By chance he meets his daughter's friend in a motorway service station, and in the course of the night is able to confront his loss.

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Against a backdrop of racial tension and industrial unrest in the Welsh Valleys of 1911, Solomon and Gaenor tells the moving and passionate story of illicit love between a Welsh girl and a Jewish boy. Gaenor, born into a family of strict chapel-goers, falls for Solomon, a young pedlar, who conceals his Jewish identity from Gaenor and her family. The couple, from similar yet very distinctive worlds, fall helplessly in love. The odds are against them, however, as the outraged community in which they live, conspires to destroy their fragile happiness.

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It is a story about a boy and a man, Johnny. But more than anything else it is about suffocation and contrary images between natural beauty and artificial modernity.

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Alcoholic Sonny has to swallow his pride and plead to be allowed to return to the pub he has been banned from in order to take his son Mark for a drink. Despite the obstacles he has to overcome he manages to hold himself together enough to enjoy their final meeting and to see his son's success in the business he is proud to have passed on.

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Soldiers blinded in action share and show individual stories of how they rebuilt their lives. Each character portrays a new life after an incredible journey and a fight to live again. They reflect on both the sorrows and the new strengths they had to find to survive. A film about courage.

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A black comedy about duty, self-sacrifice, and regurgitation - a young man is torn between the conflicting demands of his phlegmatic grandfather and his pub obsessed girlfriend.

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Based on Saki's Sredni Vashtar, it is the story of a young boy who wreaks revenge on his domineering and repressive guardian by enlisting the help of his pet ferret who he worships as a god.

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Morgan, an embittered dying man, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger who appears to hold the key to eternal life. Morgan, seizes the chance to live again but soon discovers that you can't escape the past.