Projects matching: Jones

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An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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The Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history’s most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike. No experts. No politicians. Thirty years on, this is the raw first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. Follow the highs and lows of that life-changing year.

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1969. Middle-aged Tubby and Enid, meeting at a reunion of the choir they sang in as children, reconnect with the joy of music and make one last grab at love and happiness.

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Two Down is a dark comedy thriller. A young woman's world is turned upside down when the injured hit man, Mr. Thomas, holds her and the local delivery boy hostage in her own home. Over a Chinese take-away and a bottle of whiskey the three discover what really happened to Mr. Thomas earlier that night. As a web of deceit unfolds an alliance is formed that will change their lives forever. The film features Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones, Suits), Felicity Montagu (Alan Partridge), Amy Manson (Atlantis), Alex Hassell (Anonymous, RSC), Graham Butler (The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night Time, Penny Dreadful), and host of great British actors. Stephen Fry is an Executive Producer and Gareth Jones is co-producer.

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It is 1952. Bill Rowan is eighteen years old, dreaming his life away at the family's riverside home, waiting to be called up for two years' conscription in the British Army. His idyll is shattered by the harsh realities of boot camp. He meets Percy, an amoral prankster; they are rivals and antagonists, but they gradually forge a deep friendship in the claustrophobic environment of a closed, prison-like training camp. The pressure is briefly relieved by excursions into the outside world, where they both fall in love. Finally, Bill is confronted with the shattered lives of wounded boys returning from Korea.

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"Walk With Me?" is a Guerrilla feature film shot according to 'the Guerrilla Filmmaker's Handbook' by Chris Jones. This film takes a surreal look into the life and mind of a writer who is healing after a car accident and suffering with Insomnia in London. She finds inspiration from the characters she meets in her dreams. Dreams and reality become blurred as her insomnia and sleeplessness fuel her writing.

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate, bi-racial daughter of a Royal Navy admiral in 18th-century Britain.

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Lot 13 is a dark comedy short charting the increasingly bizarre bidding war for the mysterious auction lot.

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Inspired by Andy Warhol’s quote that "one day everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," yet based on real events. Warhol is a poignant and at times disturbing look at the media; social and otherwise, as it holds a mirror up to the distorted world of celebrity culture.

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Beneath Bruce Garrett’s shabby, overweight exterior, the passionate beating heart of a salsa king lays dormant. Only one woman can reignite his Latin fire. Spotlight hits, sweat drips, heels click – Nick Frost IS Cuban Fury.

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A woman's past is held inside her, locked away - a painful secret. A past life, a past love is kept hidden. This is the dilemma of Nelly Ternan, the heroine of The Invisible Woman. Nelly, a happily married mother and school teacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens, with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. Dickens - famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success - falls for Nelly, one of three sisters - all actresses. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens - a brilliant amateur actor - a man more emotionally coherent in his work, or on stage, than in life. The nature of performance and the life of the theatre are an important part of this film, particularly in regards to the perception of women in theatre and the ambivalence of their position. Nelly, in some ways a muse for Dickens, becomes the focus of his passion. For both of them, secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of 'invisibility'.

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After coming out and leaving his girlfriend, Adam meets Rocky, a handsome stranger with an unsettling secret. As Rocky prepares to open up to Adam, their fledgling romance is ruptured by a cataclysmic event that forces the truth to come out in the most explosive manner.