Projects with status: Complete

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K fights his way up through the ranks of organised crime, his every move dogged by a mysterious and powerful opponent who'll stop at nothing to find K and the secret he unwittingly protects.

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A unique collaboration between acclaimed young British writer and director Greg Hall and critically renowned composer and musician Steve Martland. Kapital is a gothic and uncompromising look at the darker crevasses of human nature and society. Following a cross section of characters lives, interweaved in a mosaic form over the turbulent course of one day, as they all deal with the demons and angels that haunt their harsh realities. An apocalyptic vision of modern day existence.

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Kill Kill Faster Faster is the story of Joe One-Way, a man serving a life stretch for the passion murder of his teenage bride Kimba. Inspired to write by Clinique, his Jamaican cellmate, mentor and lover, Joe pens the hard-boiled play White Man: Black Hole. New York film producer, Markie Mann, wanting to make the play into a film, pulls strings to have Joe paroled and contracts him to write the screenplay for the movie. Fleur is Markie Mann’s beautiful wife, a one-time hooker and ex-con, who can’t help but fall for kindred spirit Joe. Their attraction is irresistible. Fleur is Joe’s salvation and soul-mate. They are propelled on a journey of obsession, guilt, and lust as Joe struggles between the pull of heroin, his violent impulses and the desire to redeem himself in the eyes of his estranged twin daughters. A bad man trying to be good, the more he tries to do right, the more goes wrong. He is sent in a tail spin. Out of control, Joe One-Way soon discovers that life on the outside may be too dangerous even for him.

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A universal story of disenfranchisement and search for identity. In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home - but does so in a coffin. Jackie's five friends reunite at his wake where they are forced face up to the reality of their alienation as long term emigrants who no longer have any real place to call home.
 
Directors Guild of America / Directors Guild of Ireland Award to Tom Collins.

Kings winner of Five Irish Film And Television Awards, including Special Irish Language Award.

Kings winner of Kodak Best Cinematography at Hamptons Film Festival.

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An idle kid, growing up in London, alienated from family and friends, passes the time away.

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Blissfully happy in her new marriage, Emma gives up a successful career on Wall Street to return to England and give her six-year-old son a new life. After moving into an impressive mansion outside London, Emma finds out that she is pregnant again. Everything seems to be perfect. But soon, Emma begins feeling uneasy. When left alone, the house seems to be speaking to her in strange voices. Emma’s dream of a perfect life starts turning into a nightmare. Despite her pleas for help, her husband grows more and more distant. Alarmed by a series of strange and terrifying happenings, Emma is convinced that the key to unlocking Parkside’s secret lies deep in the woods. She starts to act less and less rationally, and the once ‘in control’ Emma turns into a paranoid shadow of her former self. She has to discover that the truth of Parkside Lodge rests not in its past or future, but in the terrifying present.

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The life of seven humans seen by the same humans in the future and in heaven.

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Clara, a beautiful American opera singer seeks a fresh start in Rome. She meets Oliver, a disillusioned young English tour-guide, whose frivolous advances are an enticing but ominous breath of fresh air. With a sense of excitement back in her life, the two flirt with irresponsibility until the consequences can no longer be ignored: Clara becomes pregnant. Oliver lacks both strength and desire to face up to with their predicament. Alone and flustered Clara rapidly finds her world spiralling out of control, as the reality of her carefree existence comes tragically crashing home.

The foreseeable cycle of events are overseen by the understanding Giuseppe, who runs a bar near the Vatican City. His brother, Luca, is an angry and frustrated tour-guide, who ironically feels threatened by foreigners. Both brothers sense the inevitable catastrophe approaching: both are powerless to prevent it. The ephemeral wave of expatriate romances rolls on. As Oliver leaves, another young idealist arrives. Clara is left to struggle with the sweeping delights and ensuing drama that the lifestyle inherently dictates.

With Rome as their playground, the characters and events expose the deep composition of the Italian mantra.

La Bella Figura is Italy's soul; the essence of appearance over substance.

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Proud and determined, astride a beautiful white horse, Lady Godiva rides through medieval streets to protest against high taxes levied by husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia.
Into modern day Oxford where Jemima Honey, an attractive but quirky young school teacher, fierce and independent, sets out to resurrect her dead brother's memory through the 'Art Factory'; the place she has founded where youngsters can forget their troubles and enter the world of their imagination.
Through a chance encounter, she meets the gorgeous Michael Bartle and is very much taken by his charms until she discovers he is the 'Godiva' man, a notorious play boy. Through his persuasive talents and high level contacts, Michael persuades Jemima to make a stand for her soon to be closed down art factory. However Michael is forced to lie to Jemima and is found out at the point of proposal. In a big turn-around Jemima takes the reigns and plans a publicity stunt to attract a five-year sponsorship deal for the art factory-riding naked on a horse over Magdalen Bridge on may morning. this culminates in a reuniting of all, laying to rest of family ghosts and 'the' proper proposal.

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Lands End tells the story of Clare, a new mother with post-natal depression who spends much of her time sobbing under the kitchen table. On Christmas Eve in a desperate bid to escape her cheating husband Sebastian and get to the safety of her wealthy father’s house for Christmas, she enlists the help of two homeless men, Reza and Rory, to drive her from London to Lands End in Cornwall.

Despite Reza’s lack of recent driving experience and Rory’s constant thirst for alcohol the two men eventually prove worthy escorts. The adventures on the journey including the pitstop at Clare’s Granny's house where Granny comforts Clare and treats the men as heroes, all contribute to her increasing recovery and the precious bond with her baby is formed. But when the journey is almost over a chance meeting with her scheming husband and his lover who steal the baby away, means Clare has to look to her own resources to rescue the baby and escape Sebastian forever.

Christmas Day sees her well and happy and dancing on top of the table.

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New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting - or else. 

Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot.

Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energised by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another’s lives.

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Simon Eaves' experimental and unique animated style depicts the surreal world of a man who wishes to escape only to find that he is less free when he does. Slavestakingly created using individual hand treated frames. Simon Eaves creates a surreal and beautiful world.