Projects matching: Jones

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A head-on collision between fantasy and reality told from the twisted world view of Errol – a sexually repressed teenager born in the wreckage of a Lada crash. Raised in isolation by his mother at a remote petrol station, Errol yearns to explore the real world. When his mother dies in an accident, Errol learns that the father he thought dead is alive, and sets off in the Lada to find him, leaving an unintended trail of destruction across the desolate backroads of 80s Britain. When he finally does reach him, Errol’s violent-tempered father tries recruiting him to a criminal underworld, forcing Errol to choose what kind of man he wants to be. This thrilling odyssey burns a highly flammable cocktail of love, hate, sex and death setting Errol's moral compass spinning. Is there any hope that he will find salvation?

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A straight-talking female comedian falls out with her play safe boyfriend when she behaves 'inappropriately' during a tedious business dinner.

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A twisted love story, 'Love Me Do' follows the relationship between a female investment banker and an out-of-work actor. As the couple learn to bridge their differences and fall in love, a romantic bond develops, which drives them to commit a terrible crime.

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Sandy leads a comfortable life in Belfast. He is a university professor and a regular guest on a popular television arts programme, and his one novel, though published many years ago, is still in print and regarded a classic. But Sandy has a habit of nicking things. Shoplifting has become the one little thrill in his overly domesticated life - but when Sandy gets caught by Robert, a desperately lonely security guard, his life is turned inside out. Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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The true story of the relationship between renowned writer Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A true story of friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he forged a bond with his mentor, the eccentric professor GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought to reveal his mathematic genius to the world. Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations

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A redemptive coming-of-age story that follows a neglected and wayward teen, Jamie, whose incredible singing voice offers her an escape to a better life, until she finds her loyalties torn between her inspiring, unconventional care worker and her possessive and volatile best friend. Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Neil Clarke, a schoolteacher, suddenly discovers he has magical powers. In fact, with the wave of his hand, he can make absolutely anything happen. From wiping out a particularly disruptive class (and then bringing them back to life), to turning his best mate into the kind of man women would not only die for, but would worship to the ends of the earth and back. The only snag is getting the words right and, of course, knowing what he really wants.

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In the dead of night a security guard offers to help a distressed and fleeing girl. Hesitant at first, and despite her lack of English she, accepts his help. Is he the good samaritan he appears to be? And is the girl what she appears to be?

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'The First Film' is filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson’s 32 year quest to prove that in October 1888 Louis Le Prince produced the world's first films in Leeds, England. Once Le Prince had perfected his projection machine he arranged to demonstrate his discovery to the American public in New York and thus the world. However on 16th September 1890, just weeks before he was due to sail to New York Louis Le Prince stepped onto the Dijon to Paris train and was never seen again. As no body was ever found no one could legally fight the Le Prince claim that he invented a camera that recorded the very first moving image. As a result, several years later, Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers were to claim the glory and the prize of being acknowledged as the first people to pioneer film. Louis Le Prince was never added to history books. But for one lone voice, who worked with him, Le Prince's name and his pioneering work was forgotten. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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When Shelly meets Rachel, two dysfunctional girls from radically opposed backgrounds set off on a collision course that will leave one of them shattered, the other re-born. Set in the forsaken wastelands of Cheshire's little-seen urban overspill, 'The Violators' is a meditation on the meaning of home, and the potency and fragility of young girls' sexuality.

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The story of a man with an incredible vision, who helped shape the modern world; Andrew Carnegie. Genius of iron and steel, founder of scientific philanthropy, builder of libraries and institutions, brilliant writer, social philosopher of capitalism and a utopian with an unfulfilled dream – that the 21st century would be a century of world peace. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere