Projects matching: Just

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Alice is an American Law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that’s a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she is dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifes, by the enigmatic cab-driver Whitey (The White Rabbit). She needs to find out who she is, where she’s from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place. Along the way, she meets the characters from the book in all new guises. The White Rabbit’s a cab-driver. The Caterpillar is a drug dealer. The King and Queen are one character, a transvestite crime Lord, The Mad Hatter runs a mobile brothel. Some help, some hinder, but as Alice struggles to find out who she was, she realizes it’s more important to find out who she wants to be. And who she wants to be with.

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Love is like a hired suit. It often doesn't fit. Charlie wakes up the morning after the night before with an unexpected houseguest. They both just need to make it to the church on time. A bittersweet comedy about two guys with jobs to do this morning.

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In 1984, Simon Kelly met someone. Quite an interesting someone. Over the years, the one thing he remembered about her was this. She said she'd be dead before she was 25. So, over 20 years later when he sees her on a train, he can't understand why she doesn't recognise him. The odd thing is, she doesn't look any older. Phil Harrison agrees that it's more than a little strange. When they find out she committed suicide in 1986, the situation becomes even more difficult to explain. Until they notice the sell by date, and realize what's happened. They set out to find out more, and as they do, a plan is formed. Will it work, and how will they know if it has, or not ? Some people have said the 1980s never went away. Simon Kelly just found out they were right.

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For almost thirty years Ned Randall has been trying to make it as an actor. Now in his forties his biggest claim to fame is playing a corpse in Taggart. Always believing that his big break is just around the corner he is affectionately referred to as Next Time Ned by his friends, family and the local community. However 'lady luck' may be on Ned's side as a documentary crew have decided to spend a week in his life in order to discover what drives his pursuit of a career in an industry that's doors seem forever closed to him. Over the course of the week we follow Ned to several amusing but disastrous auditions, witness his first attempt at stand up comedy, follow his attempt to find a theatre willing to produce his one man show of Reservoir Dogs: The Musical. We also join him as he attempts to reconcile his relationship with his son and deal with his ill mother. Often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking but always entertaining Next Time Ned is a story about a man refusing to give up on his dream.

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Sometimes you just have to try something new! With work taking over her life, Jane had missed out on meeting that special someone. After a number of forgettable dates with colleague, she decides to see if the latest craze of speed dating is the solution. Based on his own experience of speed dating, writer and director Leon Chambers leads Jane (Hilary Maclean) through a rollercoaster ride of dates. Will any of them be her Mr Right?

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Protesting his sanity and denying his name, a mental asylum inmate, 'Ray', is being transferred to another facility. He escapes from the ambulance and flees into the woods. Pursued by Randall, the delusional ambulance driver, the heavily sedated Ray undergoes a suburban trial by ordeal before finally making it home to his wife. But why does she call him Ian? And where's he been for the past year? Last time she saw him he said he was just popping out for some milk. Randall curses his bad luck again. But there's more than one Ray to fill an asylum.

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Andy and Ronnie are removal men. Andy owns the van and Ronnie lifts the heavy stuff. They have been doing this job for several years and nothing interesting has ever happened. That is, until the events of One Day Removals start to unfold. Follow the adventures of two unremarkable Scottish men who are forced to deal with events of a quite extraordinary nature. Events that will take them into parts of Scotland seldom seen. Events of a very dark kind. It just takes one bad day to change everything, and no-one is safe. In a case that will rock the very foundations of the Scottish legal system, Andy Watt is telling the truth - but no living soul will ever believe him.

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One-man band conjures up images of tuneless street entertainers with drums on their backs and cymbals on their knees, whereas contemporary one-man bands are diverse and vibrant in their musical output. They are more than just solo performers: a one-man band brings to the stage noise and spectacle worthy of a whole band. However, unmediated by creative collaboration, the result can have a peculiar intensity verging on the downright eccentric. This feature documentary follows a selection of contemporary one-man and one-lady bands from Europe and the USA. Their musical output often defies categorisation, ranging from theremin rock to hurricane drum solos and a backing band made of bicycle wheels. Rather than mocking the musical excesses on display, the documentary takes an intimate approach - helped by the fact that it's a film about one-man bands made by a one-man band filmmaker. As it becomes clear that life on the road for a one-man band is a journey into solitude, so the documentary asks the question: what drives us as humans to create, and is it worth the pain.

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This film centres around the theme of its title, peace portraits. It is a film which has many entries, muscians who talk about their art and some who just play play, this feature film also has appearances by other artists from the professional fields and are well known in the film industry.

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Based on the cult novel by Cris Freddi, Pelican Blood tells the story of Nikko, a funny but left-of-centre young man living in London.  Following a disastrous break up with his girlfriend, Stevie, he’s taking life one day at a time, throwing all his energy into his hobby: Bird spotting.  Just as life becomes bearable, Stevie arrives back on the scene, causing a rift between Nikko and all his friends, who warn him she will destroy him. They are fully aware of how the couple first met: on a suicide website, pledging they will ‘end it all together’. As their intense, disturbing and highly sexual connection resumes, the relationship between Nikko, Stevie, his friends and his hobby are thrown into questionable chaos. Pelican Blood is a funny and passionate look at the things that make us tick, and the things we tick off the list.

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Young and pretty Romanian Nicola was trafficked into the UK after the promise of a legitimate job and prosperous future. She’s ended up forced into work at nasty Rocky’s brothel. One evening Nicola snicks out of the flat to make a desperate phone call home. This is short lived as Rocky finds her and drags her to the house where she’s beaten up and coerced to get ready for her next client.

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Evan lives in a small English village with his eccentric, evangelistic Aunt. A simple life, a regular routine with an ordinary job. His world is small. His girl is just a friend he’s known since childhood and the only regular trouble is the racism shown to his best friend Sri. His aunt attends the small village chapel and he goes with her more out of habit than conviction, after all, he has more interesting and less weird things to do, like restoring his old Porsche. But life is not so simple. First his job disappears and then the yanks appear driving on the wrong side of the road with nearly fatal consequences. With the Americans temporarily stranded, his Aunt invites them to stay at the cottage and everything changes. With an attractive daughter, and cynical father, trans-Atlantic horizons and conflicts open up. The young man, encouraged to try on a new worldly outlook, seems poised for success in romance and business, except that, his friends, heritage and moral code are falling painfully by the wayside. What’s a man to do when caught between obscurity and success, between new and old, between the familiar and the foreign?