Projects with status: Complete

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Heavy Metal Drummer is a celebration of rock music in the Arab world. The film tells the story of a teenage boy who is the only heavy metal fan in town. He spends his weekends playing traditional ballads in a wedding band with his two cousins but dreams of playing thrash metal and headlining Monsters of Rock.

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A string of unfortunate coincidences plague a travelling salesman trying to leave the desert.

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Running back through his life, Home tells the story of how a man ended up living on the streets.

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Horn OK Please follows a momentous day in the life of an Indian taxi driver who chases his dream of driving an air-conditioned car.

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in 1905, Women in Queensland got the vote. Banned from male only pubs and bars, certain Women met in secret every full moon to talk politics and drink. One hundred years later, the civilised centenary of this infamous club takes place. However, events take a turn back to the old days, when a notorious guest finally arrives.

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How Would You Feel?

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A young man in southern China has killed his lover. He starts a lonely escape across the whole country towards his land of wonder, a snowy village at the northern border.

Sitting at his desk in Beijing, a scriptwriter is writing that man's story. It is through his characters that his life gains its weight, meaning and freedom. His imagination blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.

The snowy village lies on the quiet border between China and Russia. Old villagers fish under the ice, school children study English text about America. They endure the long winter nights waiting for the sun to come back.

When the scriptwriter arrives in that mysterious village, he meets his own fictional character, lying on the frozen river at the border, covered in snow.

Two men contemplate the icy landscape. One wants to cross the border to see the other side of the world. The other longs to head back to his hometown, which he left so many years ago.

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In Silvertown, London's least shiny quarter, a young man stands up to stop what he sees as evil and his friends see as fun. He dies for being a grass but his reasons and his convictions sink with him into the dirty water of the Thames. His brother Leo, shattered by the death, struggles to understand why his friend Isaiah is apparently guilty of the murder. While his half-sister starts an unwitting relationship with the real killer and his mother sinks deeper into grief it is left to 17 year old Leo to avoid easy revenge, take unpopular action and uncover the uncomfortable truth.
 

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I Really Hate My Job follows the lives of five women working together in a busy Soho restaurant who have little in common apart from their jobs. During the course of one evening, the women discuss every detail of their lives, from fear of getting old to dreaming of doing anything other than working in a second rate restaurant with delusions of grandeur. The customers come and go, unaware of the real concerns of the women: the restaurant's growing rat infestation, arguments about the nature of art, a communist rebellion in the kitchen - and the frenzied anticipation of the arrival of a famous Hollywood movie star.

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Our heroes have a dream - in this case, to make a movie. Frustrated by their college lecturer, wannabe producer Joe and his talented but neurotic director friend Baggy head to London to sell what they know is a script made of gold. Encountering nothing but closed doors, their luck changes when an equally desperate producer (and general lowlife) is willing to bung them some cash - but only if they can nab the right star, the legendary porn actress Candy Fiveways. Against all odds they manage to secure her services but it's not long before trouble heads their way. Making a groundbreaking graduation film with scenes of an adult nature in your parents' house was never going to be easy. Will Joe and Baggy successfully wrap their DIY skinflick and is there a possibility of finding real love along the way?

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A painter searches for his iconic muse in the physical realm.

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The story of a young boy who is sent to Jersey to live with his grandparents after his mother had left him home alone. The film follows Jimmy's struggle to find love, happiness and security.