Projects with status: Post-production, Pre-production

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Filmed over a 25-year period, CUTS, NO IFS OR BUTS delivers a vital portrait of the low-key, yet world-famous London barbershop ‘Cuts’ – not just a place to get your hair styled but a space for street fashion and pop innovators. Guided by freewheeling founders James Lebon and Steve Brooks who met when one was a Rockerbilly and the other a New Romantic, the salon moved from early 80s post punk roots to become a communal hub for DJs, photographers and style icons, an influencer in the analogue age. The film allows us to bear witness to the passing of time and the profound and often tragic personal change in the hairdressers' lives within the wider context of change in the UK's political and cultural landscape. It highlights the themes of family and creativity and is an anthem of the promise of youth and the friendships that endure (or not) over a lifetime.

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A groom-to-be discovers an old photo of his fiancée with another man, sparking intense jealousy. Despite her reassurances and attempts to prove her love, his obsession grows as he uncovers details about her past.

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A non-fiction adaptation of the fairy tale book 'The Little Mermaid' (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837).
Fed up with the polluted environment Little Mermaid is forced to live in, she decides to leave home for a better place, embarking on an adventure brimming with new findings.
This is the third and final film of Liliana Colombo's 'Climate Trilogy' which started with ICEMELT PARK (2020) and EARTH THE NEW MARS (2022).

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Nineteen year old Tommy likes his life as a criminal, and leads his friends in acts of horrifying violence, until one night he is kidnapped by a stranger, Chris. Waking up with a chain around his neck in the basement of an isolated home, Tommy finds himself at the centre of a dysfunctional family dynamic as Chris and his mysterious wife Kathryn try to make Tommy a “good boy”, in a process of forced rehabilitation. The one thing Tommy knows for sure: he must escape

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The story of Dinah Little, a no-nonsense, curmudgeonly farmer, and Charlie, the unloved niece who Dinah begrudgingly takes in after discovering her in an orphanage. Dinah's farm is in the self-proclaimed 'Pumpkin Capital of the World' where the biggest event of the year is a high-stakes, cutthroat giant-pumpkin-growing contest with an enormous cash prize. Charlie, who has a special bond with plants, decides to enter the competition where she and the other pumpkin growers face sabotage and a genetically engineered rival. As she nurtures her pumpkin ‘Peter’ and watches him grow, so does a bond between Dinah and Charlie.

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A modern-day take on Shakespeare’s tragedy, exploring race, mental health and inequality.

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Saturday night at a sold out stadium. Heavyweight boxer - ‘Diamond’ Derek Douglas – flanked by his team, makes a big entrance as he heads to his locker room ahead of the biggest fight of his life. With the championship belt in sight, he is unperturbed by the odds, which are heavily stacked against him.
Energy and excitement are high. But when Derek discovers that his closest training partner – Cain - is in his opponent’s locker room, it triggers a series of catastrophic and self-destructive events both mentally and physically. Soon Derek is questioning himself and those around him and they, in turn, are questioning if he’ll even make it to the ring tonight. Or if he would even be fit to fight…
When Cain arrives in the locker room to witness Derek’s hands being wrapped for the fight, truths are revealed about his own place within the team and his motivation to betray them. Anger becomes hurt for both him and them.
With first bell approaching, and ever lowering odds, the team must work hard to help Derek shed the heavy weights that are holding him back from becoming both a champion and the man that he deserves to be.

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Go-wing, 19, is going to be the first university graduate in the Au family - or so her father thinks. In between school breaks, she even works in his takeaway to help keep costs down. But Go-wing’s hectic yet mundane and isolated life is about to change when she arrives at a visiting circus on a delivery trip. There, not only her hidden rollerblading talent is celebrated, but she also discovers a bigger ambition - High Wire.
To keep pursuing this new-found, death-defying aspiration and still be the good daughter her father wants - she lies. Go-wing is going to play a balancing act not just on the wire, but also in real life.

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Raymond’s life is on pause - stuck in a job he hates and living with a bunch of middle class students he has nothing in common with. He’s a man adrift, until a chance encounter on a night out reunites him with his charismatic but volatile former foster brother Jerdy.
Charming his housemates, Jerdy worms his way back into Raymond’s life, feeding his dissatisfaction with his current circumstances and pulling him back to a world he was trying to escape. Jerdy brings fun, excitement and much missed brotherly love, but when he allows himself to be dragged into thuggery and criminality Raymond has to grapple with breaking the bonds of loyalty from his past. But Jerdy isn’t going to make it easy for him. Devastated that his brother wants to cut ties with him, Jerdy holds Raymond and his housemates under house arrest until Raymond agrees to do one last robbery with him. For Raymond, this proves to be just the beginning of his problems.
Set against the vibrant backdrop of Belfast, this comedy drama with a uniquely Northern Irish perspective delivers exceptional performances, unstoppable swagger and a laugh-out-loud exploration of the relationships and experiences that make us who we are.

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The true life story of John Davidson. Diagnosed with Tourette's at 15, Johnson was targeted as insane by his peers, as he struggled with a condition few had witnessed. Campaigning for Tourette's as an adult, he was awarded an MBE in 2019 by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his pioneering advocacy.

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The film uses dance to focus on women ageing. A cinematic journey celebrating the enduring power of femininity and resilience embodied by the Argentinian dance choreographer Florencia Guerberof.
Guerberof's work creatively explores life's profundity and the timeless legacy of womanhood through the language of Japanese Butoh dance.

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The day before a violent criminal is due to be released from prison, his wife and child are kidnapped. Armed only with a mobile phone he must somehow save them… and himself.
When violent criminal Joe gets a call a few days before his release his world is turned upside down. Joe's ex-wife Sara and son Rory have been abducted, and unless he follows kidnappers’ orders his family will die.
Confused, angry and desperate, Joe is caught like a rat in a trap. Hardened prison officers Smith and Rogers only add to Joe's woes as he battles not only those on the inside but also those pulling the strings on the outside. An unflinching descent into chaos, where every decision could mean the difference between freedom and a violent end.
A relentless, high-stakes action thriller, where the drama takes place within a single prison cell.