Projects matching: Simon Dennis

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Inspired by a true story, A Mind of Her Own tells the poignant and moving tale of Sophie, a determined young girl whose ambition to become a doctor is obstructed by her severe dyslexia. But Sophie, encouraged by her closest friend Becky, has never been one to give up and, despite being advised by parents and school teachers to be realistic and pursue something less academic, she puts herself through college and university, in the process achieving a first-class degree in biomedical science and a PhD conducting research into post-trauma regeneration of the spinal column, which ultimately leads to her achieving worldwide recognition for her work and helping to develop a cure for paralysis.

A Mind of Her Own won a Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival in 2005.

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A sensual story about the nature of obsessive love.
 
Michael, an astronomer, is on the brink of a new discovery, which he believes will explain what connects the irreversible and unavoidable consequences of fate in the Universe. When a chance encounter brings him into contact with the mysterious Caroline, a French photographer, an all-consuming love affair follows. But as the relationship becomes more intense and intimate, a series of events starts to make Michael doubt what is going on around him, forcing him to question what is real and what is not.
 
What happens to a relationship when love becomes an obsession?
 
What happens when you love someone so deeply that when they die you refuse to give them up?

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Nina Shah is a feisty young Indo-Scottish woman with an identity crisis. Nina previously left home under a cloud after a row with her father. When her father dies suddenly, Nina is forced to return and run the family owned Curry House. This reunites her with her childhood friend Bobbi, a Bollywood drag queen and brings her face to face with Lisa, a charismatic young woman to whom Nina's father sold 50 percent of the restaurant.

Nina embarks on a personal mission to win the 'Best of the West' curry competition, a highly coveted prize in the world of Indian cuisine. But Nina's feelings are thrown into turmoil when she realises that she is falling in love, with Lisa! Can she win both prizes?

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In this neo-noir thriller, police arrest a man for questioning over his neighbour's murder. Investigating cop Beatrice Kenosha enters a period of dark fascination with the mysterious stranger and his entangled, suppressed past - but only after he escapes her custody. It emerges, when he's on the run, that her suspect had been living as a recluse, shutting out the world and his tortured memories of a lost love.

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Iota is the powerful story of loss and rediscovered communication within a remote and voiceless family.

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A humble film extra suffers from delusions of grandeur.

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Charlie is on a stupid mission of revenge against the Popstar who stole his wife.

Vincente is on the run, trying to get away from the country to escape a contract castration ordered by the man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Charlie is probably the only person mad enough to give Vincente a lift to the remote Scottish airfield where he plans to fly to Spain.

From now on, little is certain as these two lost souls get more lost on their journey to their own private wilderness.

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A modern fairytale about one woman's struggle to keep her relationships - alive. This lyrical short film, saturated in rich colour, plays out a series of humourous catastrophies, and incidental disasters in the name of love.

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A restauranteur plans to fake his own death after discovering his wife has hired someone to kill him.