Projects

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Bench Pressing isn’t a hobby for 73 year old Bill McFadyen – it’s a way of life. Stranraer’s very own bench press champion is on a quest to be the best in the world.

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Hardeep, Rashmi and Atul are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other, all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family.

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The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries. All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries. Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent 'whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons. Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

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Based on Stanley Morgan’s multi-million selling character Russ Tobin (which to-date has sold over 10 Million copies Worldwide) the comedy musical Make Way For Tobin is a homage to Britain’s golden era, the 1960’s when the dreams were high and the skirts were even higher. Ever on the look-out for that rung that will help him up the ladder to fame and fortune, Tobin believes his big break has finally arrived when he gets the job of maintenance man at the fabulous apartment block Wisteria Court, residence of the very rich and famous. Alas, Russ quickly discovers the chasm that inevitably separates our fantastic dreams from harsh reality. Wisteria Court, it transpires, is a seething seedbed of eccentric silliness, an asylum of anarchic asininity. One day the world may well Make Way For Tobin - but it sure as heck won’t be today!

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A film mixing real time documentary of an unedited conversation of two famous poets - one the father of Dub poetry and the other Nobel prize nominated, breaking the bread together on questions of identity, and a fictional element, of a young woman cruising through night time New York.

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Alice is an American Law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that’s a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she is dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifes, by the enigmatic cab-driver Whitey (The White Rabbit). She needs to find out who she is, where she’s from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place. Along the way, she meets the characters from the book in all new guises. The White Rabbit’s a cab-driver. The Caterpillar is a drug dealer. The King and Queen are one character, a transvestite crime Lord, The Mad Hatter runs a mobile brothel. Some help, some hinder, but as Alice struggles to find out who she was, she realizes it’s more important to find out who she wants to be. And who she wants to be with.

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A mother. A daughter. Three possible fathers.

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Man In A Box is a low budget psychological thriller set in modern day Brighton. A successful architect, an abduction, solitary confinement, twisted mind games, a CCTV camera watching his every move - broadcast live on the internet. The question everyone is now asking is 'Are you watching?'.

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During a sunny spring afternoon in the park, a young woman eats an apple. She is infected with an urge for life, and love.

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In 2001, director Chloe Ruthven got a job in a central London primary school, working with children who were failing in class. Nini and his friend Mario immediately stood out as two, bright adventurous Albanian children, and Chloe began working with them, encouraging them to use her video camera as a way of exploring their own lives. Over the next seven years, the three develop a special relationship. But as the boys grow up, the lure of the street begins to prove too much, and only the director can stand in its way. This is the disturbing story of two boys growing up in a world where childhood is under threat, and asks fundamental questions about how we view and raise our children.

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After 50 years of marriage, Mary comes to terms with John who is a shadow of his former self.

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When Colonel Pretis of the UN falls in love with Mathilde, a local girl, during the Balkans war, he lets his passion overcome his sense of duty. Mid life crisis and the beautiful Mediterranean blur the tragedies of war. When he realizes he's fallen into a deadly trap, it's too late.