Projects with status: Complete

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Bonobo is a black comedy about an uptight mother in search of her daughter who has taken up residence at a raucous commune led by a group of hippie misfits.

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Gregor is rudderless Londoner in his mid-20s, trying to find direction in life. 'Gregor' is a black comedy where nothing is resolved, no lessons are learned, and focusing on the millennial generation who feel they should be able to do anything by right and end up doing nothing by default.

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Doug and Abi are taking their three children on a trip to Scotland for a big family gathering. They are in the midst of a difficult divorce, and have asked the kids to keep it a secret from their extended family. But as the inevitable feuds kick in, a completely unexpected turn of events involving the children causes further tensions to rise to the surface. And with the repercussions that ensue - hilarious and emotional in equal measure - the family are forced to put aside their differences and work together or else risk losing what they hold most dear.

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A teenage boy discovers his unruly neighbour is really a disgraced rock god who "died" eight years ago owing a fortune in unpaid tax. The boy agrees not to reveal his secret on condition that he teaches him the dark arts of rock guitar.
Berlin International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Adam has lived a rootless existence since his family’s farm was destroyed by the Foot & Mouth epidemic of 2001. His life imploded and he abandoned his family after a single devastating incident. He has spent the years since on the nomadic fringes of British society, cycling through transitory jobs and transitory relationships, adrift from his family and past. When his younger brother Aiden reaches out to him to announce the birth of his first child – Adam is about to become an uncle – there is an ultimatum attached: come home now, or never come home again.
Adam embarks on a journey home that is at once tortured and exhilarating, a panoramic tour through the broken and beautiful margins of Britain. As eruptions from his secret past begin to emerge, Adam attempts to break free from a self-imposed exile that must now end before it swallows him for good.
Venice Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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'Future Shock!' is the anarchic history of 2000AD, the British science-fiction comic launched in 1977 that would come to change the face of the industry and pop culture at large.
The documentary features fascinating interviews with legendary creators, plus dynamic visual sequences that pay tribute to the groundbreaking artwork.

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A documentary to explain economics to everyone and why economic crashes will keep happening, presented by Terry Jones, covering the history of financial crashes and featuring a combination of live action, animation, puppetry and song.
Contributors include high profile advocates such as John Cusack, journalists such as Paul Mason and John Cassidy plus leading experts including Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England and Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J Shiller and Paul Krugman.

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In Dark Ages Britain young Saxon farmer Wade and his brother Atelic are captured by an extremist faction of the Viking forces called “The Berserkers”. They are thrown into a sacrificial and barbaric manhunt in the name of Odin.

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A female landscape gardener is awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versailles, a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very centre of the court of King Louis XIV. Can she overcome the challenges of this new and complex world, and the ghosts of her own past tragedy, to secure a future with the man she loves?
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

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We're in the middle of a heatwave in fenland England. Goob Taylor's spent each of his 16 summers helping mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When mum shacks up with swarthy stock car supremo and lady's man Gene Womack, Goob becomes an unwelcome side thought. However Goob's world turns when exotic beet picker Eva arrives. Fuelled by her flirtatious comments, Goob dreams of better things. But as the temperatures soar and the beet crop swells, the tension escalates when Womack wants a piece of Eva too.
Venice Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Jackie is expecting her second child but the math doesn't quite add up. It's been months since she last slept with her husband Mark, so she knows it can't be his. But, perplexingly, she also knows she hasn't been with anyone else.
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere