Projects with status: Complete

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Introducing to the screen in crisp computer generated animation the super heroes of Naif Al-Mutawa’s comic strip ‘The 99’, this feature debut from British animator Dave Osborne brings together the first five heroes connected by their special relationship with the Noor stones; Gem stones imbued with the wisdom and knowledge of the lost civilization of Baghdad. Each represents one of the 99 attributes of Allah. An action pact international journey packed with intrigue, conflict and advocacy of unity amongst diversity.

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Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime,disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and pompous consultant Cowan, as well as the patients. However the sister backs him when she realises he is treating her charges as people, not patients, talking to them and involving them in musical entertainments and sporting activity. Soon Whitehall are sending him all their spinal patients and, with visits to the pub and wheelchair sports taught by an army sergeant, he becomes the men's hero. With the war over Ludwig organizes national wheelchair sports competitions which will in turn lead to the establishment of the Paralympic games. An end title informs that in 1966, now a British citizen, Dr Guttmann was deservedly knighted for his part in bringing hope to the hopeless.

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A unique comedy in which three idiots attempt to stage an epic. The Bubonic Play is the story of a maid, her master and a wandering minstrel caught in a tragic love triangle. It follows their journey across the plague-ravaged English Countryside in search of a cure for the disease. Lord George of Ponsonby is in love with his young maid Mathilde. She discovers a handsome minstrel bathing in the river and they run off together. Enraged, George vows revenge and sets off to intercept them. The story survives all assaults from the actors' need to be the audience's favourite. Love, songs, magical potions, deception, knife-fights, stampeding rats, Punch and Judy all feature before the play's dramatic climax. They die. All of them. One by one.

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Maggie and Charles could be soul mates, but they’re destined to never meet. So Eve covertly sets ‘the dinner date’ into action amidst her boyfriend Steve’s protest. But with this seemingly good intention comes an unforeseen dilemma. Will Eve wish she had never tampered with fate?

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RACHAEL the young protagonist is always looks on the bright side of life but seems to be having the worse day of her life. The story is about hope. The old man is the spirit and bull of Newport, he talks to her about never giving up.

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As snow begins to fall over Christmas, Olivia arrives at the mysterious place Stowfield, where she forms an unlikely friendship with the peculiar teenager Spook, who helps Olivia to remember a timeless promise she once made as they hang on the cusp of an unknown future.

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Michael is a young Irish banker, whose life begins to unravel after causing a stranger's death in an accident. Sifiso is a teenager living in a shack in a Cape Town township, dreaming of escape. When their stories unexpectedly collide, their impact on one anothers lives is far greater, and more surprising, than either could have imagined.

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Returning to his Hackney roots, Kapadia explores the connection between London, the Olympic Games and the experiences it engenders.

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A day caught up in the murky slipstream of a North London pub.

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An intimate portrait of Yemen as the revolution unfolds, told through the eyes of a tour guide leader.

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Doc-maker Marc Isaacs has used a portrait of a road - the A5 – to take a warm, human look at immigration to the UK.

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The trials of a hardened detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police. Based on the '70s UK TV show.