Projects with status: Pre-production

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Two men meet on a plane and strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true. His new friend Mark becomes his saviour and ally. What Henry doesn’t know is that Mark is a seasoned undercover officer – working to convict Henry for an unsolved murder committed years prior. Based on a real-life Australian sting operation.

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Based on Jack Fairweather's Costa Book of the Year prize-winning biography of Witold Pilecki. Pilecki was a covert operative who volunteered to be captured and taken to deadly new Nazi detention centre, Auschwitz, in order to infiltrate the camp, organise a resistance from within, gather evidence of the atrocities being committed against thousands of European Jews, and ultimately attack the Nazi forces from where they’d least expect. However, Pilecki’s incredible and heroic story would later be wiped from the annals of history by Poland’s communist government and the man himself branded a traitor and enemy of the state. Fairweather’s account pieces together first-hand accounts from survivors, access to unpublished diaries and newly released archival documents.

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The rise and fall of the Von Erich family, a dynasty of wrestlers who made a huge impact on the sport from the 1960s to the present day. The Von Erichs (real name Adkisson) began their wrestling dynasty when Fritz Von Erich (born Jack Barton Adkisson) became a star in the National Wrestling Alliance, holding multiple belts in the 1960s before becoming president of the organisation. He died in 1997. He and his wife Doris had six sons, five of whom died before their father, which led to talk of a curse, colloquially dubbed the ‘Von Erich curse’. Today, two sons of Kevin Von Erich, the last surviving brother, are both pro wrestlers with Major League Wrestling. In 2009, the Von Erich family were inducted by Michael “P.S.” Hayes into the WWE Hall of Fame.

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A woman rediscovers her love of music when she returns home to the Yorkshire Moors and uncovers what might be the entrance to another world.

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Across the gangs of Cape Town and city suburbs, a reformed gangster-turned-pastor and volatile detective cross paths after an act of brutal violence sets them on collision course with a heinous gang lieutenant who will stop at nothing to get to the top

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Psychological chiller set in a mental facility

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The hardscrabble life, both interior and exterior, of William Stoner a Missouri farmer turned academic making his way through the first half of the 20th century. Adapted from John Williams's initially little known 1965 novel 'Stoner', which was reissued to universal praise in 2003, and went on to become a best seller. "I had never encountered a work so ruthless in its devotion to human truths and so tender in its execution." New York Times Magazine

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Detective Cormac Reilly is thrown back into a case from 20 years before involving two children whose mother died of an overdose. TV project based on the book by Dervla McTiernan.

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Ash, a young trans man, sets out to find his birth parents after being diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer. Along the way he meets vibrant drifter Rose who refuses to let him quit. Together they embark on a journey of discovery and whilst looking for one thing, find quite the other. "The story was born of my own battles with gender identity, a need to discover the truth within myself and fully embrace myself as a non-binary individual... “I wanted to see my community reflected on screen, which is something I never saw growing up. With many films and TV shows the queer experience is filtered through a heterosexual gaze and is articulated in heterosexual terms. It’s important that we make films that are truly reflective of our communities, and that LGBTQ characters are as complex and interesting as heterosexual characters.” Marley Morrison

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Based on the original short film FAULTY ROOTS. Two teens with different genetic conditions are forced to form a friendship.

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I WAS A TEENAGE GUITARIST FOR THE CLASH! © the documentary film is based on the DIY book by Kathy DiTondo and Keith Levene published in 2014. This book with artistic custom cover was completely pulled off DIY from concept through marketing through finance through product development through post production through distribution and provided a main funding source for the completed PiL album called Commercial Zone 2014. The book recalls the DIY British music/art/design/cultural/political revolution that began in streets of West London and went global in 1976 as told to Kathy DiTondo by Keith Levene, founder member of "the only band that matters" - the Clash.. The Clash along with the Sex Pitols were the two major bands on the West London scene.

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A farce about a man struggling to keep his two very different bosses from discovering that he's working for both of them.