KILLING TIME is a short film investigating the life of an isolated young adult riddled with anxiety over the future of our planet, playing Xbox, smoking marijuana and surfing the Internet to pass his time, while he waits for the third kind to show up.
Featuring Toby Jones and an original soundtrack from Mercury Award winning Brit nominees Alt-J, comes a story that defines our times. From a world hidden from view, this is a film about teenagers cast away from their homes who now learn to survive, at any cost, here in the UK.
‘Leave to Remain’ is a provocative coming of age story about a young Afghan boy who’s arrival sets off a chain of events that jeopardises the future of those closest to him. Unwittingly he plays an unimaginable game of chance where winning and getting Leave to Remain to stay in the UK is not always what it seems, and all hope hinges on just how good a story he can tell.
Bruce Goodison wrote this film from the real experiences of the thousands of teenagers who land here alone every year, “Imagine what it is like to lose everything that is familiar to you and have to cope as an adult while still a teenager, in an alien society. Their stories can tell us something important about ourselves, and the way we treat others.”
This bold and enlightening film features, alongside established actors, a cast of teenage refugees who have been trained through a Film Academy run by the films creative team.
The deceased have risen with the instinct to feed on the living. As the cities are over run and civilization crumbles, a family take refuge in an isolated farmhouse in West Wales. But, the greatest threat is already among them.
A haunted former soldier assumes the identity of an upper class Londoner. When his girlfriend is murdered, he is forced to confront his past and hunt down those responsible.
When a popular VIP is assassinated there is public outrage. A historian has unearthed a 400 year-old law that makes clear the assassin must be executed. Angus Angus a bright young politician is against the execution. However This generates media heat, and an unpopular government, only seven weeks from an election, sanctions the execution to win public favour. They decide to privatise it. Hugo is a prison governor beset with crises; career, money & marital. He is passed over for promotion, his much younger boss Mike Smith wants him out and his wife’s spending is pushing him towards bankruptcy. The American company operating the prison is granted the tender for the execution and Hugo is given the task by an area manager who wants Hugo to fail. Maurice is a conman who has intermittently spent almost thirty years in Hugo’s prison – they know each other well. Maurice has a proposal - a way to solve Hugo's money worries; pay-per-TV. The execution will be the biggest reality television event the world has ever seen!
Grace is an East Ham girl with all the attitude. Her parents are slowly pulling their marriage apart and they’re making her go on holiday, for a week in the country. Say is a country boy. He doesn’t have any friends and lives inside his head; despite his name, he barely talks. After a chance encounter with their parents, Say is cajoled into showing Grace around. Grace is disdainful; Say is sullen.
Say avoids all the usual teenage haunts. Instead he shows her the important places of his isolated life. Say is both repelled and drawn to Grace’s fierce courage. Grace begins to respect Say. They set off on an unlikely rural odyssey.
With emotions running high, a clumsy come on from Grace is met with a startled rejection from Say. Their nascent friendship almost falls apart, but neither can resist the gravitational pull. Amidst the scenic grandeur of a dying summer, they fall in love. This takes them both to new emotional territory. For Say, it is the mountains, where he stopped talking and it is here that he finally opens up. When Grace hears his story, she can no longer hide from her own emotions. They kiss.
A modernization of the classic Western The Magnificent Seven, in which the "Cowboys" are a local amateur soccer team, the "Villagers" are the owners of a local Tandoori restaurant, and the "Bandits" are a gang of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as American Bob.
Two brothers, both wonderful chefs, fall out catastrophically. At the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half – one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides of the same road, and spend the next twenty years trying to outdo each other. Neither brother will admit it but they both know they are not entirely successful in the ‘other half’ of the menu. It takes a daughter – a successful London lawyer, Shalini, marrying a man from a different ethnic background – to reunite them. She is planning her marriage and is determined that they will both attend. Can the men bury the hatchet without actually burying the kitchen knife?
On the run from a marriage in crisis, former war photographer Echo goes looking for her one-time lover and comrade-in-arms, who has retired to obscurity in deepest West Wales. Discovering he has taken his own life, she falls into a passionate love affair with his son, strewing chaos among the small community as she stirs up past betrayals.
But raising ghosts is a dangerous game, and sexual abandon also triggers the unravelling of a trauma Echo has long buried for the sake of her children, which now threatens to tear their lives apart.
Can Eros bring a healing of trauma, or merely its repetition?
What price delight?
A year in the life of Owen McBride as he tries, against the odds, to adjust to the 21st century and leave his roots behind. A tale of conflict between the world of the Gypsy and the world of the Gorgio (settled people).
