Projects with status: Post-production

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It is the summer of 1943. A small and very disparate group of people arrive on a remote Orkney island beach tasked with a top secret mission - the making of pornographic films for the boys at the front. For who knows how long this war still has to run, and fighting morale - as we learned only too well from the last one - is everything. So then, a very war-damaged former movie star; a celebrated German film-director; a munitions-machinist-come-aspiring-actress; an Etonian major from the Ministry of Information; an aging, alcoholic hair-and-makeup artist; a young lad, as innocent as can be, and right on the very threshold of war’s bloodbath. Oh, and a half-starved and very ragged Luftwaffe pilot, watching on from afar…

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On the cusp of adolescence, Celia’s world begins to unravel after she discovers her mother’s affair. Alienated at home and struggling with a mind where reality and imagination intertwine, she retreats into long summer days with her cousins, Kerry and Hannah. Things take a dark turn when she and Kerry stumble upon a body deep in the woods. They urgently summon the adults for help, but the body inexplicably vanishes —and no one believes them. As Celia becomes consumed with uncovering the truth, her grip on reality fractures further, pulling her into a dangerous mystery where the line between witness and suspect blurs, and the greatest threat may lie within her own mind. This coming of age film explores maladaptive daydreaming, a mental condition that children can develop using fantasy to cope with a psychological trauma.

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A dark entity attracted to sound lurks in the shadows, hunting the remaining survivors of a small town trapped in an industrial estate.

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A gripping documentary that captures an unprecedented moment in British cinema. Hollywood star Woody Harrelson set out on an audacious mission: to write, direct, and star in the world’s first live feature film, shot in a single take across central London and broadcast in real time to nearly 600 cinemas across the USA. Featuring Owen Wilson and a host of top British talent, this behind-the-scenes documentary reveals the passion, chaos, and technical wizardry required to pull off what many thought was impossible. From high-stakes rehearsals to last-minute crises, including a failed camera link, a missed cue, and even an unexploded bomb, the journey was anything but smooth. Told by Woody, Owen, cast, crew, and family, this is more than a making-of film; it's a funny, nerve-jangling and heartfelt portrait of creative ambition, the thrill of live performance, and the determination it takes to make cinema history. This isn’t just a film about filmmaking, it’s the story of a once-in-a-lifetime cinematic event.

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Flint returns to his childhood home to heal. He quickly falls back into familiar routines-then into violence.

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A small, closely-knit allotment community on the fringes of London experience unsettling, life-changing events after a mysterious stranger enters their midst. Aiden Salter is a budding nature writer living alone in a council block overlooking a small allotment on the edge of the city. A personality disorder keeps him shut up in his bedsit all day long, vicariously living through the lives of the plot-holders below who have formed a close-knit family of their own. The weekend Aiden enters their circle, police have earmarked the gardens for closure in three days following the disappearance of a local Ukrainian boy, and the grisly suicide of one of the plot-holders. Increasingly it appears Aiden himself, and Elsie Bierce, a controversial American publisher specialising in the occult, are at the heart of it all. On the eve of its imminent closure and the padlocking of its gates, 'Ourhaven' allotment, re-christened ‘Sourhaven’ by the local press after a glut of bad headlines, is about to unearth its diabolical secret.

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At the crack of dawn, Finn and his younger brother Charlie run away from home, to avoid getting split up by their separating parents. They're trying to reach the wild west coast of Ireland. Home of their beloved and eccentric grandad, John, who they haven't been allowed to see since all the fighting began. On their 500-mile journey across land and sea, they must survive on their smarts, charm and the kindness of strangers - especially a free-spirited street musician, Kait, who is escaping troubles of her own.

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Set in Bavaria in 1812 and combining live action performance with 3D environments and hand-painted animation, A WINTER’S JOURNEY is the story of an itinerant lovelorn poet who is banished from society and undertakes a hazardous walk across mountains, ice and snow - a journey which will bring either death or a new life. Based on Franz Schubert's timeless classic song cycle 'Winterreise'.

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The remarkable true story of six working-class Scots who created some of the most enduring and influential soul and funk music of the 20th century. Rising from the clubs of Dundee to the top of the U.S. Billboard charts, Average White Band’s journey is one of extraordinary talent, cultural crossover, and resilience. Just as global fame beckoned, tragedy struck with the sudden death of drummer Robbie McIntosh - a devastating loss that would change the band forever. Featuring electrifying archive performances and intimate new interviews with the surviving band members, alongside contributions from Chaka Khan, Michael McDonald, Mark Ronson, DJ Premier, Questlove, Chuck D, and Flavor Flav - the film explores how AWB, as one of the most sampled bands in history, left an indelible mark on hip hop, R&B, and popular music - influencing generations of artists.

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Will, a timid writer struggling creatively after the success of his first novel some years ago, is psychologically manipulated by Mikey, a mysterious decorator, into a committing a series of escalating criminal acts that form the inspiration for his new work. However as the line between fiction reality begins to blur, Will is forced to confront his past and discover the truth about who he really is. What price is he prepared to pay to finish his novel?

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The true story of two Scottish lads from Dundee conned the music industry by pretending to be an established Californian rap duo, appearing on MTV and bagging a record deal until their scam unravelled. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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A hybrid documentary that takes us on a poetic, essayistic journey into the heart of darkness that was COP28 in Dubai. What’s it like to show up at COP, full of hopes and anxieties? Can humanity really save itself like this, or is the whole thing intolerably corrupt from the start, stuffed with oil lobbyists, cynical politicians and tech bros? Our guide is an AI-cloned version of the filmmaker, whose sometimes deadpan, sometimes despairing voiceover drifts us past the oil-funded skyscrapers, pristine superhighways and elite backroom cocktail parties where the powerful do their deals. Deep inside the insane techno-utopian fantasy of Dubai and the end-times irony of a petrostate’s oil baron hosting our last-chance climate conference in a burning hot desert, the mood is of end-times alienation and hopelessness. But then we encounter the unexpected: indigenous voices that cut through the business-as-usual with an urgent plea from the frontline of brutal climate injustice. Playful, critical, all too human, COLOSSAL WRECK takes us into a half-imagined future space of what we could be if we managed to listen differently – and the darkness of what happens next if we don’t.