Projects

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A group of unrelated adults are notified that they have won a competition to spend a night at the famously haunted Mermaid Hotel in Rye, Sussex, UK. They have not, however entered a competition. Soon after they arrive there is a murder and they find that they are locked in. The murders then begin in earnest as one by one they are killed with no visible sign of injury? As the murders continue the tension rises. Is the murderer a demon or something else supernatural or is it one of them. There is evil in the air and it looks like no-one will survive until the morning. Brad is the ghost hunter employed to conduct the ghost hunt but Brad is not quite as brave as he first appears!

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Sylvan and Mia are the perfect couple; in love, caring and supportive of each other, with a shared vision of what Britain could be with Sylvan as its first black Prime Minister. But, Sylvan has a secret from his street boy past that could destroy their dreams and devastate their marriage.

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Atom Spirit explores the increased interconnectedness of advanced technology and nature within the age of the Anthropocene. The film is set in Trinidad and Tobago, in a location that serves as a nexus point where desire, ecology and queerness intersect. Atom Spirit is a film that reconceptualises our relationships with the environment, non-human animals and each other. Shedding scientific taxonomies and building queer ecologies in their stead, the film considers the possibility and necessity for new means of being in the world.

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Two young boys discover the entrance to a secret military bunker that has been undetected since World War II. The boys awaken something so terrifying that one boy doesn’t make it out alive and the other flees for his life only to be hit by a car. A police investigation is initiated but one by one the police and forensic officers are killed in grotesque and mysterious ways. Meanwhile in the local old people’s home, an elderly WWII veteran sees all of this unfolding on the news and realises what has happened. But will anybody believe a senile old man as the devastation and destruction mounts up around them?

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Channeling the medium of knitting through film, 'Avoiding Green' explores this ancient craft as an early form of digital construction. Combining archive footage, interviews and ‘depth camera’ animation it explores the symbolic role that knitting took in the definition of gender stereotypes from the mid 20th Century onward.

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A middle aged man waiting for his blind date at a cafe gets more than he bargained for when he orders a coffee.

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Two women sit in a barren wasteland discussing the best way to die.

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A fourteen-year-old girl from a small highland community has a crush on a local lobster fisherman. She persuades him to take her out for a day finds the attraction is mutual. A film about girlhood, fantasy, first love and loneliness.

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An esoteric portrait of John 'Modge' Chancellor. An ex-tv star and red coat, living in the backwaters of the Suffolk countryside waiting for his time to shine once more.

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An ex-RUC Special Branch Detective serves the remainder of his career in an English coastal town hoping to heal wounds from a violent past, until the murder of his only daughter shatters his faith and sends him on a headlong hunt for the killer.

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Francis raises his son like he cultivates his plants, shielded from harm, comfortable inside. However when the boy outgrows his father's protective confines, Francis must face an uncomfortable truth.

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Based on the true-life story of Helga Schneider who was abandoned by her mother in 1941 when she was only four years old. Helga’s mother had gone to join the Nazi SS where she underwent special training to qualify as a concentration camp guard in Auschwitz. The film is set in the year 2000, following not only Helga and her mother’s journeys but the next two generations of their family and the suffering they endure following revelations of long held secrets around the horrific events that took place over 70 years ago.