Projects with status: Complete

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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.

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A delicately poetic triptych of stories that paints a human picture of the subtly devastating effects of war and examines the bonds of suffering shared by us all. Three stories of strangers meeting on the edge of war. A conscientious objector and a roaming artist find tenderness as the carnage of the Second World War unfolds across the English Channel. A bereaved mother struggles with bitterness and love in recollecting her estranged son, lost in the Falklands. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany, an ageing holocaust survivor seeks to bring peace to disturbed young boy and his equally wild stepfather.

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A man and his child live a nomadic existence. After he murders a woman in cold blood, their relationship begins to break apart.

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A telephone rings three times in the dead of the night. A man called Peter Stillman is looking to hire a private detective, Paul Auster of the Auster Detective Agency, someone Daniel Quinn is not. Based on Paul Auster's critically acclaimed novel, 'City of Glass' this VR experience puts the user directly into the deeply emotional and disorientating story of Daniel Quinn, a reclusive crime writer who unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a real-life thriller of his own. The gripping, 4 minute experience combines hand-drawn animation and cutting edge technology to distort the line between reality and action, placing audiences at the centre of this narrative as the strange and haunting story unfolds. In a story about identity, 'My Name is Peter Stillman' makes us question who we really are in this fragile world.