Projects with status: Complete

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The young street kid Tashan is branded for a theft and left for dead. He awakes and embarks on his journey through rural India, during which he discovers he has a gift.

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In 1866 one of the wealthiest young men in England disappears when sailing around the world. Ten years later, sightings of the presumed drowned Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, are made in South America and Australia.





A trusted black man servant, Bogle, is sent to Australia to identify the heir apparent.





After several years of fruitless searching, Bogle writes back to the Tichbornes in England informing them that their son is in fact probably dead. They inform Bogle that he may as well stay in Australia.





Desperate for a ticket home, Bogle decides to train an unlikely imposter, an overweight butcher with an uncanny resemblance to the missing heir, in the ways and manners of an English gentleman.





Back in England his eccentric mother recognises Bogle's trained gentleman immediately as her missing son, much to the horror of the rest of the family. And so begins one of the longest running court cases in English legal history, and a story which takes a remarkable turn as the imposter Bogle has unearthed suddenly begins to act and behave like the man he is supposed to be.





Is he Sir Roger or not? Based upon a true story.

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The tiny Hebridean island of Eigg is up for sale and after decades of absentee and uncooperative landlords, the islanders have decided to put in a bid themselves. But can they raise the asking price of £2 million? This film follows the highs and lows of their campaign as the islanders fight to buy their freedom from feudalism.

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The Wedding is a short but poignant look at relationships in particular those between the female characters. The story unfolds on the eve of Helen's big day and we discover that best friend Margaret is to be bridesmaid; this point churns up her own hidden desires and lost hope of ever achieving the ultimate success in relationship heaven.

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Set in England in 1977, The Week Elvis Died is an evocative and bittersweet look at life from a child's point of view. Karen aged 10 is bullied at school by Julie and her gang. Her dysfunctional family can't help her and she doesn't confide in them. All she has for comfort are her descant recorder, her pet rabbit Elvis and her adoration of top disc jockey Tony Blackburn.

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When Agnes Conway has a chance encounter with wealthy Charles Farrier in her father's sweet shop on Christmas Eve 1913, little does she realise that romance is to blossom and her life is about to change. She also finds herself entangled with the notorious Felton family as she goes to the aid of her younger sister, Jessie. The Wingless Bird follows the fortunes of three very different families who are linked together by the strong-minded Agnes.

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Henry James' multi-layered novel of tragic love is magnificently translated into a gorgeously realised, richly textured movie. Kate is a spirited but poor middle class girl in thrall to her wealthy Aunt and blocked from marrying Merton, her charismatic but equally penniless journalist boyfriend. Then into their lives comes Millie, a young, fabulously wealthy but lonely American heiress, who, harbouring a sad secret, is befriended by them. The scene is then set for an intensely moving drama that plays out its themes of love, loyalty, deceit and regret against the splendour and emptiness of high society.

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Steven Griscz appears an enviable young man - successful in business, charming by nature and with an astonishing ability to ensnare women. He hides, however, a terrifying secret. The death of his girlfriend in a hideous car crash brings Steve together with Maria Vaughn. They fall in love. Maria's love for Steven is complete and this is precisely the moment he has been anticipating. At the height of Maria's passion, Steven, quite literally, feeds off her love. After disposing of Maria's body at sea, all Stephen is left with is a crystal, the concentrated essence of Maria's emotions at the moment of her death. He catalogues it, files it with a series of notebooks and adds it to his growing collection - Maria is number 6......

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Normally, people who are dead stay dead, just as normally it is the criminals who are locked up rather than the victims. But then there was nothing normal about what happened to Marian Fairlie and her sister Laura. Except perhaps the beginning, and the arrival of a new drawing master, Mr Hartright.





Mr Hartright brings with him the tale of a mysterious encounter on the road with a ghostly figure: a woman dressed all in white. Great fans of Gothic tales, Laura and Marian are intrigued by this. When they spy this same woman themselves, wandering in the grounds of their home, Limmeridge House, late at night, they determine to find out all they can about her. But before much is learned, their idyllic summer is cut short by their friend Mr Hartright being forced to leave them in disgrace, and Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Clyde removing them from their home to the distant Blackwater Park.





Once there, the unhappy story of the woman in white unfolds, drawing the women into a vortex of secrets, crime and passion - and into a treacherous involvement with the fascinating but sinister Count Fosco.

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It is the morning of Sarah's flight to see her parents in the States, whom she hasn't seen in years. All packed and ready to go, Sarah finds herself locked inside her apartment building. The main door of the building is locked and she has left her keys in her flat. Sarah has to count on the kindness of passers-by who see her in her ridiculous and helpless situations. It's just that some mornings there isn't much of that kindness around.

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Thicker Than Water conveys a brief moment of intimacy between a young girl and her Aunt. The setting is a tenement in the less enlightened 1930's. The onset of puberty provokes alarm and confusion for the girl, causing the Aunt to reflect on her own younger days at a village dance during the First World War.

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A young man in a pub tells a story so badly that his friends have lost interest before he's reached the punch-line. Elsewhere the same story is told well. It comes to life: in a tube station a drunk attaches himself to a commuter pursuing him all the way to work. Eventually the commuter cracks and hits out...