Projects with status: Production, Pre-production

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Based on Virginia Woolf's 'Flush', tracing the life of Flush, a Cocker Spaniel from his carefree existence in the country, to his adoption by the poet Elizabeth Barrett, his travails in London, his owner's elopement and to his final days in a bucolic Italy. Elizabeth Barrett, who is mourning the death of her brother, is given a puppy called Flush, who restores her spirits and helps her resume her poetry. She is trapped in her “ivory tower” by a possessive, domineering father. Another young poet, Robert Browning, has fallen in love with Elizabeth’s poetry and is always begging to meet her in person. When a trembling Elizabeth finally agrees, the sparks of passion ignite a secret romance, much to the annoyance of her beloved companion- Flush. Knowing her father will never let her go, Elizabeth and Robert elope and escape to beautiful sunny Italy. Meanwhile, a jealous Flush plots furiously against the man who has stolen Elizabeth’s heart.

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Russia 1988. Telepathic twin brothers are chosen for a secret experiment to test ESP. Peter is isolated in a remote military station whilst Viktor is launched into space. The twins become mentally and emotionally close, until Peter intuits a dark secret his brother has kept from him. He abandons the mission. Alone, Viktor faces death in deepest space. Peter races back to save his brother. As Viktor drifts further into space, with light years between them, the brothers heal their bitterness and again become one.

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When his grandfather falls ill, a wild adopted boy leads his family on a hunt for a magical pearl unaware it is guarded by dangerous mythological beings.

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Patrick Kelly is a hard man. His one soft spot is his daughter and when she falls victim to a vicious and sexual depraved serial killer, Kelly wants revenge. The detective in charge of the case is Kate Burrows. She feels for Kelly but her growing involvement with a known villian is putting her career at risk. As the forces of law and order and London's underworld converge in a huge manhunt, Kate fears she'll lose everything she's ever cared about...to the ladykiller.

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Focusing on conservationists around the world as they attempt to catalogue a new version of the comprehensive tally of global wildlife. First created in 1964 and under the umbrella of the London-based International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Red List has become widely accepted as a definitive tally of the status of species globally.

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Drama set in the Syrian crisis zones based on true stories about female freedom fighters of Kurdish and Western descent who joined forces to battle against ISIS in an effort to reclaim Raqqa and restore stability to one of the most dangerous places on earth.

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After a young woman loses her niece during a blackout and with an air raid fast approaching, she must find her before the bombs start falling. Alone on the pitch-black city streets, she stumbles upon a criminal underworld operating in the shadows. Based on an original idea by director Leanne Welham, the story is set in October 1940, at the height of the Blitz, when Britain suffered relentless bombing from the German Luftwaffe.

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Joseph and Celice Adkins first fell in love as zoology students on a field trip to Baritone Bay. Thirty years later, on a nostalgic trip back to the dunes where they first made love, they’re brutally murdered. With the crime scene undiscovered for days, we shift back and forth in time, travelling through their lives from their early romance, to the day their bodies are finally found caught in one final embrace. A bittersweet look at loss, the way fate shapes our lives and a mesmerising vision of the power of love to endure.

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A documentary film about wildfires in the Attica region around Athens, in Greece.

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A man goes in search of his elderly father who has mysteriously disappeared. Set in the harsh, frozen Canadian tundra, the son’s feverish search exposes shocking family secrets long buried, and takes him back to his childhood town to find a community gripped by fear. As he travels deeper into the bitter winter wilderness of the town he uncovers a dreadful secret buried long ago.

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A romance develops between Leah, a rebellious private school girl from one of London's wealthiest areas and Benji, from one of the city's tough public-housing projects. Leah attempts to lead Benji into a thrill-seeking life of crime, with dire consequences.

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Set against the backdrop of a giant hurricane that flattened Galveston, Texas in 1900. Local black champion Little Arthur must go head-to-head not only against prejudiced social and relational divides, but with a ringer from Chicago – Jim McBride – a dirty-fighting racist hired by the local Sporting Club to do one thing: Kill Little Arthur and restore the championship to a white fighter. As with the real Jack Johnson, Little Arthur further defies social constructs by being in a forbidden relationship with a white woman. Based on a Joe Landsdale novella that is inspired by the real life story of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion. Johnson was recently granted a posthumous pardon by President Donald Trump from his conviction for violating the Mann Act in 1910 at the height of the Jim Crow era in the USA.