Frontier Blues takes place on Iran's northern frontier with Turkmenistan. It consists of 4 stories.
Alam is a 28 year-old Turkmen man who lives with his father and works in a chicken farm; Hassan is a 28 year-old Persian man who has a pet donkey and lives with his uncle; Kazem, is Hassan's uncle and he owns a clothing store but the clothes he tries to sell never seem to fit anyone; A 55 year-old Turkmen minstrel is the subject of a book of photography by a photographer from Tehran. His wife was stolen by a Sheppard in a green Mercedes many years ago.
Frontier Blues is the story of longing, waiting, remembering, desperate men and absent women.
Kim, a law graduate, and Missy, a party girl, are two very different sisters. But in order to make money Kim joins her sister at clubbing in order to bet on footballer's gossip. Where do they go from here?
Game Keepers Without Game is a film set within the structure of a feature length melodrama. Formally based on the Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Play La Vida es Suena (Life is a Dream), it follows the narrative of the return of a child who had been banished from the family home. Translated into contemporary British life, the film is comprised of a mixture of acted scenes where nothing and nobody touches each other. Still shots of objects become characters and a drumming sound track builds up and breaks down like the building of a house.
Matthew, a successful businessman, and his aging father George, a tough, bitter old man, have little in common other than their shared grief for the recently deceased Mother, but on one fateful day out their two differing worlds and characters collide forcefully in a shocking encounter of truth and discovery.
In 'Getting Ready' we watch a faded icon of stage and screen backstage as she prepares for the greatest performance of her life - a star-studded suicide.
Captured on sumptuous super 8 film and evoking the spirit of old Hollywood, this vintage-style short premiered at the London Independent Film Festival.
Lucy is young, Lucy is damaged, Lucy is pretty.
Aged 13 Lucy attempts to get away from her dysfunctional family, an ever arguing step dad, mum and her dull teenage life by meeting up with a '16 year old boy' on a blind date with her shy friend Becks.
Dumping her friend along the way she waits in a restaurant for Tony dressed and made up as a young woman out to catch a man. The boy she has exchanged salacious text messages with turns out to be Tony who is closer to 40 than 16.
Lucy's not concerned, maybe she always knew it. He's concerned, then infatuated. She flirts, she plays games, she's witty, feisty and outrageous, but in control. There's no doubt they get on. She asks him to take her back to his place and he does.
Glorious 39 is a British thriller, set in London and the idyllic Norfolk countryside when Britain stands on the brink of war. Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, is at the forefront of the movement to appease Hitler whilst others, with Winston Churchill as their powerful figurehead, believe that war is essential to combat the Nazi threat.
The story is centred around the formidable Keyes family, who are determined to preserve their very traditional, English way of life in the midst of this political uncertainty.
The adopted, eldest sibling Anne is a budding young actress in love with Foreign Office official Lawrence. Anne's seemingly perfect, carefree life surrounded by friends and family, begins to dramatically unravel when she stumbles across secret recordings hidden by outside forces in the out-buildings of the family home. Whilst trying to uncover the origin of these recordings, a tangled web of dark secrets begins to unfurl, along with a growing sense of menace and betrayal.
As war breaks out Anne flees to London in an attempt to confirm her growing suspicions of evil at work. Only then does she begin to discover the true extent to which she has been betrayed.
Music promo for Richard Anthony Jay's Gone... but not forgotten (featuring Davy Spillane).
The video was produced entirely using public domain archive footage and internet sourced materials supplemented with scanned items and photographs. Composited and animated digitally, the film captures the essence of shared memories through four different family histories.
A little girl journeys into a world of imagination when she discovers that her pet rabbit is dead. She conjures up a macabre fantasy about what death may be like and in doing so, is able to say goodbye.
Keith, an ordinary gaming geek who works the graveyard shift at the only all-night convenience shop in the city, has grown used to the occasional disruption to the monotony when he exterminates zombies that wander nightly into the shop.
One night Keith is distracted by Suzi, and must convince her that the walking undead really do inhabit the city after she witnesses a zombie killing.
They are thrown together in an adventure riddled with strange denizens of the night as they cross the infested city. But they are followed by an ancient priest-magician, mistakenly raised as a zombie by a bumbling necromancer. Suzi becomes enchanted with the Dark Lord's Gothic looks and is drawn into a sinister enchantment as he seeks to unravel the interwoven spells that have enslaved him to undead existence.
Despite his jealousy, Keith vows to protect Suzi with his life. Suzi is torn between Keith's devotion and her unnatural attraction to the Dark Lord. A final showdown between the Dark Lord and Keith will determine the fate of Suzi, the city, and perhaps even the world.
It's Cathy and Matt's house warming dinner party, as well as Cathy's birthday, but she's not having a good time. After a couple of the guests leave, the remaining male guests along with Matt, discover an Ouija Board and are soon out for some harmless fun. When strange things start to happen, they blame each other, but the joke goes too far and soon they realize it isn't a joke at all. Alan and Henry make their excuses and depart. This leaves Mel, Matt and their close friends Kirsty and David to face the night alone. They soon realize that somebody else has arrived at the party but they certainly don't have a proper invite.
Haircut is a short story about a curious little girl called Emily and a ‘really weird’ hairdresser, Harold.
When a new hairdresser’s opens in town, Emily knows that something is not quite right but no one believes her - and then her vain mother decides that it is time for a new haircut.
