Projects matching: Mark Jenkin

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Weekend Retreat is a darkly comic thriller set in an isolated house in the picturesque Cornish countryside. Karen Campbell has brought her husband Duncan away for a “quiet weekend”, a chance to communicate and rebuild their fractured marriage. Duncan plays along but seems distant. During their first night they’re taken hostage by Kevin and Gary Tregidger, estranged brothers desperate for money who thought the house was empty. Gaffer taped back to back the Campbells' marriage is pushed to the limit while the Tregidgers can’t stop bickering long enough to get the job done. As the weekend draws on the stakes are raised as secrets are revealed and body parts are lost.

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Bench Pressing isn’t a hobby for 73 year old Bill McFadyen – it’s a way of life. Stranraer’s very own bench press champion is on a quest to be the best in the world.

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This bitter sweet drama, follows the story of Andy a divorcee who, in a last ditch attempt to recapture the magic of his own childhood holidays chooses to take his two estranged children on a trip to out-of-season Cornwall. Andy struggles to rebuild a relationship with these virtual strangers, but can only watch as the holiday slides slowly towards disaster. But whilst every day seems to carry Andy further away from his children, at night, the family discovers a new sense of connection through a series of spontaneous dreamlike excursions they come to call The Midnight Drives.

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In 1635, the 152 year old Thomas Parr is taken on a journey to the court of King Charles I. The King orders an immediate celebration of his aged visitors' longevity, with fatal consequences.

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In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil. Forty years later, Betty Beane sets off with the family savings in a hankie and a secret suspicion in her heart, to fulfill the dying wish of her husband and find their long lost son.

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Set in the reign of King James VI of Scotland, The Witches tells the story of three fishwives who concoct a plan to save themselves from the threat of witch dooking.

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Night People takes us on a journey across the city of Edinburgh, introducing a cast of characters for whom there will be no sleep. Each of them is faced with a dilemma that ranges from the hilarious to the heartbreaking and they have until morning to make a decision that will change their lives forever. Night People is a powerful and thought-provoking film. It exploits the beauty and grandeur of the city of Edinburgh as a backdrop for tales of extraordinary moments in ordinary lives.

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It's Christmas Eve and wee Charlie McGinley has been told the truth about Santa; unfortunately for Santa no-one has told him so when he is confronted by Charlie and his father's shotgun it is the boy who convinces Santa that in fact he is nothing but a myth with darkly comic and tragic results.

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Teachers! - Exhausted by kids who will only pay attention to what they are interested in? Tired of having your entire class disrupted by one cheeky brat? 'Nurilin' is the quick fix you need to deal with disruptive children. It's easy to administer and completely painless - use it for their sake. Available from your local chemist or by mail order.

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An intimate portrait of a psychiatric patient tormented by the relentless clanging of the hospital bell.

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Out of the Cold is the story of Patrick, a ten-year-old boy growing up in a small coastal village and his fall from innocence into experience.

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An unemployed swashbuckler despairs of ever taking to the waves again in this peculiar bittersweet comedy.