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It features an aging performer towards the end of her life. The story is told through the lyrics of her song. She is dragging herself around the country, performing her show wherever she can get a booking - to quote from the song - 'Well fame alone won't pay the bills'. It is a poignant tribute to fading celebrity. The performer is watched by members of the audience and those working in the theatre where she appears. Although it is an effort, she can still come alive on stage.

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Inspired by a true story, Kinky Boots sees Charlie Price set about rescuing his dad's ailing Northampton shoe factory, which has been the pride and joy of his family for generations.

Facing the imminent closure of the factory, Charlie begins to feel all is lost. A chance encounter with sassy, flamboyant Soho cabaret star Lola provides a glimmer of hope and a surprising last chance for the factory and its employees.

Lola's quest for stylish, kinky women's boots (for men) might just provide the answer to Charlie's prayers but is Northampton open-minded enough for the likes of Lola?
 

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Matthew Carlson believes himself to be insane. Whenever threatened with the remote possibility of being exposed to humiliation, stress mounts and he fantasises an act of extreme maladjusted behaviour to distract himself and so relieves himself from the burden of his worried mind. He began dealing with social situations in this way from age eleven, and so over the years has become convinced, and quite comfortable with, the notion that he is indeed a psychopath. At age ten, Matthew was sexually abused by his father. Shortly afterwards, his mother killed herself. Matthew has spent his life obsessing about being insane to distract himself from this past, and buries it away deep within himself so that he can function better in his adult life, and with his friends and at work. As Matthew's past begins to uncontrollably force its way back into his conscious mind, he looks for something further to drive it back into the dark depths of his psyche. This is a story of what someone actually thinks as opposed to what they say and do. This is a man who fears Limescale might be accumulating inside of him. This is the story of Matthew Carlson.

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Zoë Verne is a regular at Club Dis, the city's hottest subculture superclub. But late one evening she leaves distraught, and is set upon by four dark figures. All she hears is a snarl - she's dead before she can scream.

Detective Alex Taylor has it all, but he's losing it fast. His career is on a downward spiral; his fiancée is a stranger to him; and now he's handling Zoë's death - seemingly killed by a wild animal - but the closer he looks, the more the ground falls from beneath his feet.

Forensic evidence shows Zoë was addicted to a drug derived from a fungus called Ergot. During the Dark Ages, whole villages were driven mad by eating infected wheat, giving rise to the myth of the Werewolf. Alex suspects Zoë's death is related to this drug, and that the owner of Club Dis is involved, preying on his clientele, luring them into addiction, prostitution and worse.

The manager tells Alex nothing; but one of the regulars takes Alex in. At first Alex is appalled by the decadence and free expression. But the more Alex experiences, the more he is drawn into this new life.
But more deaths occur, implicating the owner’s female lieutenants - and Alex realises he's in more danger than he'd imagined. Alex returns to Club Dis to bring the owner and his girls to justice, but soon finds himself facing an even greater dilemma than he had ever feared.

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An early morning day in the London financial district, just like any other. Problem is, things are not always as they seem and business propositions can sometimes find a dead end.

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Mr John is an untidy agoraphobic and television critic. He lives alone, and for the past two years has managed to get by without leaving his front door. He just about survives, but when an intrusive neighbour barges into his life, he is finally forced to face his deepest fear.

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Faced with apathy and indifference by the criminal justice system, Chas 'Myna' Bird employs his only talent, mimicry, to obtain retribution against a gutless police informant who has brutalised his family. Innocently answering a friend's mobile phone, Chas quickly recognises an opportunity to gratify his revenge, while helping an old army buddy.

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Middle-aged history teacher Barbara discovers that the beguiling Sheba, a new teacher at St George's, is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old pupils. Barbara quickly positions herself as Sheba's chief defender. However, all is not what it seems and, as Sheba soon discovers, a friend can be just as treacherous as any lover.

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In this neo-noir thriller, police arrest a man for questioning over his neighbour's murder. Investigating cop Beatrice Kenosha enters a period of dark fascination with the mysterious stranger and his entangled, suppressed past - but only after he escapes her custody. It emerges, when he's on the run, that her suspect had been living as a recluse, shutting out the world and his tortured memories of a lost love.

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An exploration into the relationship between a father and his nine year old son. The father, soon to be imprisoned, finds himself competing with a football star in absurd challenge to gain his son's respect and affection.

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An exploration of the relationship between a father and nine year old son. The father is soon to be imprisoned and he finds himself competing with a football star in an absurd challenge to gain his son's respect.

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One of Life's Players is an experimental short which I shot on Super8, a format that has intrigued me for a long time, it is based around a prose I wrote a few years ago. Written in the prose are a number of quite upfront and powerful statements. 'in the circle of life we co-exist with an assemblage of unadulterated attractions and fascinations'. Through the diverse and haunting beauty of film I wanted to depict images that an audience can relate to events in there lives and the surrounding world we live in. It has not plot and perhaps to some it might be hard to understand.

One of Life's Players will be reminiscent of films such as Baraka (Ron Fricke, 1992), Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983) and Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929), which don't really have a traditional narrative drive. These experimental masterpieces rely on the use of stunning cinematography to allow the audience to create their own story. One of Life's Players portrays images such as an empty room with just a fireplace, and a photograph spattered with blood to depict how life can often take a turn for the worst. Sometimes a lifetime can often feel like the blink of any eye, One of Life's Players depicts this by using images like a young woman's eye, which transforms into an old woman's eye and other similar juxtapositions. Although some of the imagery isn't always blatantly obvious. I'm hoping perhaps One of Life's Players will fuel thoughts about how at times we as a fast moving species tend to take the planet and its abundant fascinations for granted.