Projects

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His 'n' Hers is a comedy in which a young couple have an escalating argument about the frequency of sex in their relationship. It all takes place on a sunny Sunday, starting with silence over the fried eggs, getting worse on their kite-flying expedition and ending with a big showdown under the full moon.

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Clare is going on a dream holiday. But who is going to look after her beautiful house and 'Baby' the dog whilst she is away?





She finds an ingenious solution ...

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A beautiful but hopeless fight against circumstance and the death of an American dream in a by-passed Welsh town. Three kids, forced to make up their own rules, are seduced by the possibility of something better. For what other choice is there when reality lets you down?





Set in the present day in Banwen, a two-bit town in the wilds of Wales' industrial south, House of America, centres around the Lewis family - Sid, Boyo and Gwenny - whose father Clem has apparently run away to America. Left in charge of their eccentric and mysterious mother - Mam - the kids yearn to escape to the States to visit their father, but the chance of them doing so is remote as there are no jobs for them in the small town.





Hope comes for the family in the guise of the Michigan Mining Company which is looking for labourers. But Mam is ever watchful and suspicious of the work they do on developing the open cast coal mine that looms above and behind the house, and is not happy at the prospect of her two boys working there. The pace accelerates further as Sid and Gwenny rebel against circumstance to escape from their surroundings. Their inventive fantasies absorb and take hold over reality and they become Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson in a mythical America - the energised heroes of their own making - leaving Boyo and Mam behind with the brutal truth. House of America roars along the open road, roof down, radio blaring, hell bent on heroism. Where it takes us is funny and sad at the same time, but an impossible dream is better than 'if only'...

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An English coastal town is the setting for a story of obsessive love when Martin returns to it following an eight year prison term. A young boy and his beautiful sister are drawn into Martin's pursuit of his former lover as he leads them on a dark and tense journey into the heart of desire.

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Jeff is in trouble. Images of a young woman haunt him and he can't shake himself free. Against the eerie landscape of the Cornish clay pits, his memories of an affair, a car crash and a terrible crime take their toll.

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M was a police informer. 'A few people got caught informing, were shot and dismembered .... the true consequences do sometimes come home!' Informer tells his story; he tells of crimes and set ups, the tensions and the paranoia which followed, and eventual escape to a new life and identity.

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Omar Sharif, the one Arab above all others who has bridged the cultural divide between the Middle East and the West, presents this independent television programme about the transformation of the United Arab Emirates from rags to riches. Judicious use of archive library material highlights the changes that have occurred in the society of the UAE over the 25 years of the federation. Local people, the Arab in the street, tell their own stories and give the programme a strong human interest.

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Joe and Olivia are childhood sweethearts, about to embark on their wedding day. But the so-called happiest day of their lives is over faster than they anticipated. Olivia doesn't quite make it up the aisle, and Joe is left jilted at the altar.





A decade later, Olivia and Joe are walking up the aisle again, but this time it's as bridesmaid and best man. They haven't seen each other for ten years and they've changed beyond all recognition. Olivia wears pleated skirts and designs multi-storey car-parks. Joe is older, wiser, sexier and married to the beautiful Spanish model, Mariana. But all is not as it seems, will first love get a second chance?

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The cautionary tale of a boy, his dog and somebody's liver... Up in her attic, a puppeteer carefully prepares Johnny - a lovable little character. She has him act out a drama for her and then takes relish in destroying him. A morbid little film - beautifully shot - involving greed, love, revenge, death and a liver.

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Karmic Mothers is a black comedy about two women - played by Siobhan Redmond and Molly Innes - who have tried to commit suicide and are recovering in hospital close to a maternity wing.

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Chained to his cot, wings confiscatd at birth, 'Ike' is a creature of the kitchen, half baby, half duck; but with every deranged dribble he comes closer to becoming more like the swan on the matchbox of his desire.

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Grant and Bonham-Carter star as a quirky 1930's couple with very modern ideas in an off-beat tale of love, poetry and garden plants. The romantic comedy, shot entirely on location around London, centres around the unconventional relationship between an eccentric budding poet and his long-suffering girlfriend. While Comstock strives to embrace poverty and his 'art', Rosemary works furiously (against all odds) to keep her career and their relationship on the rails. Their odd, but touching, romance revolves around Comstock's bizarre passion to escape that dreaded symbol of middle-class 'respectability' - the aspidistra.