Projects with status: Complete

Synopsis

As a hard-pressed family struggles to get home after a days shopping, a young girl discovers that mum doesn't always know best. Sweetie follows seven year-old Tash and her family - mum Lynn, dad Kevin and little brother Ewan - as they attempt to catch a bus home after a day out at the local shopping centre. Life is sweet, until they discover that they don't have the correct change for the bus and are subsequently 'thrown off'. Watched by a voyeuristic crowd both on the bus and at the bus stop, small actions and reactions cause more problems and humiliation for the family.

Synopsis

Night falls in a big city. Down dark alleys and in the backstreets, a man looks for a woman who drifted in and out of his life a long time ago. Convinced she has come back, he follows her trace, as she wanders mindlessly through the streets they once knew together. Or did they?

Synopsis

Tanju Miah opens in a misty landscape in rural Bangladesh, where a young boy waits for his mother. "I'm about eight or nine", he says in a voice-over. "When I grow up I want to become a rich man, by singing". He waits and works, and sometimes sings. Director Sadik Ahmed uses a series of graceful scenes to build a psychologically complex portrait of a child who might otherwise disappear into statistics. His bosses call him Blacky. "But in my village", he says, "my real name is Tanju".

Synopsis

In this urban ghost story set in a supermarket, we find our heroine Isabel resigning her self to a life of shelf stacking and shop displays at Cheapi Cheapi Cutz, where Stanley the manager bosses her around and memory of her mother undermining her, grinds her down. She is forced into action, however, when she is visited by a very unusual ghost and given an ultimatum she cannot refuse!

Synopsis

Tehran Trace takes the same motion path slowly and silently across four still photographs; the foyer of the Hotel Laleh, the Mirror Hall of the Golestan Palace, a stone arch towards the north of the city, and a bazaar with a view of mountains. Each 'trace' begins close up, curves away from its opening subject and ends with the original image fully framed.

Synopsis

The tide is slowly coming in and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has been dropped on an isolated beach, his feet set in concrete. Finn's misery is compounded when Jack, a hard and edgy minor gangster responsible for his predicament, lands a few yards away, feet also set in concrete.

Synopsis

Temerario is the story of Rio, a young cowboy shot and left for dead in the desert. In the throes of his fear and agony, Rio dreams of a revenge that causes great pain and suffering. As a tortured old man, Rio is then forced to confront the evil within him that drove him to bring about such anguish, in the form of a duel with his Shadowside.  

Synopsis

In rural Costa Rica, two girls are left behind when others go to college.

Synopsis

An exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the animated pictures of Sarah's world, as she seeks revenge on the movie star who broke her heart!

Synopsis

A darkly comic tale about a young girl who takes revenge on her elderly next door neighbour when he kills one of her pet flies. As events start to escalate out of control the question is just who will win?

Synopsis

A young girl witnesses her parents' slaughter by an outlaw who thinks she's an angel. Years later he is a Bible-bashing Sheriff about to hang Sarah, a whore. But Jude, a lone cowboy, saves her. Through their journey, Sarah's feelings for Jude grow. But Jude is the 'angel' in disguise and has to kill the Sheriff before she is ready to love the whore.

Synopsis

'Eddie' Ahmed is waiting to be interviewed for a new job. The interview is for a job he never even applied for but Human Resources seem to know what they're doing.