Projects with status: Complete

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London, midnight, on a cold evening. Unable to find a taxi, Kate (Franka Potente) heads for the Underground. She takes a seat away from the crowd of late-night revellers and waits for the last train. Before long she drifts off to sleep - and wakes to find everyone gone. She momentarily panics until another train pulls in. She boards, unnerved that she's the only passenger, but relieved at last to be on her way. Halfway through the tunnel the train jerks to a violent halt. The lights shut off and the train is plunged into darkness. Kate screams - she is trapped, in the dark - and she is not alone - her nightmare has only just begun.

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Creep is an intimate family drama set in Yorkshire. Christopher, seven years old, lives with his mum and wayward half brother. Christopher's dad disappeared without trace six months ago leaving the family to struggle with daily life and idle gossip. Christopher decides to confide in an elderly neighbour, Reg.

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Julius has lived in London nearly all his life and has witnessed the city changing. Life hasn’t been great, but now he’s up for promotion. He’s worked for the company for 15 years and thinks he has a good chance of landing the job. But he also has a secret which threatens to jeopardise everything - his daughter has charged him with abuse.

Things begin to go wrong for Julius when he is made redundant and finds himself on the scrap heap: 55 years old, divorced, unemployed and facing jail. As far as he’s concerned life isn’t worth living and he decides to end it all. But then he meets an Angel and decides to take her with him as he says goodbye to the city he loves. This sets off a chain of events that not only jeopardises his case, but also the very life he wishes to end.

With nothing to lose, Julius’ unfulfilled dreams become the battleground for a journey of discovery that delves into his fractured mind and the underbelly of his urban environment, forcing him to face the demons that beset him and the realisation that sometimes it’s harder to take the easy route.

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An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet set in modern urban London, Cultural Menace is a thought-provoking tale of the fears embedded in a society built on money and expectation.
 
On the Sumka Estate we find the Morte gang whose hold on the local drugs trade has been challenged by an informant, leading to the police seizing £27,000 worth of drugs. Gang leader and big-time drugs lord Benny is angered by this distraction and takes his revenge. 
 
Meanwhile on the estate, Cemal tries to instil his cultural values on his family, but he is living in a world that places too much pressure on his beliefs.
 
Caught up in this turmoil of hate, revenge and cultural conflict we meet two star-crossed lovers, Cemal's daughter Jeylan and Benny's brother Ronnie. The end seems sealed from the moment they meet in a world where hate prevails and love should stay.

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A dark fairytale about three girls, a 7" single and a dance competition.

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Location: present-day London through the eyes of a humble key cutter, Abe (Andrew Lee Potts).

Date: not his best day

None of these were on his wish list:

1. Mimi (Elena Anaya), his Spanish girlfriend, announces she is pregnant and storms off to Madrid.
2. Debt collector Danny Devine (Robert Carlyle) gives Abe 24 hours to pay of his debts 'or else'.
3. Switching cell phones with Lynch (Gary Oldman), a neurotic hit man.
4. Being wanted dead by at least 2 assassins.
5. Getting a contract to kill a Dead Fish.

Abe has to get through the day, without being killed or killing anyone, earning enough dough to pay back Devine and most importantly making sure he doesn't lose the girl he loves.

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An English boy struggles for belonging in a Scottish new town during the Falklands conflict.

He plays the classic Scottish game of Dead Man Falls and finds life again.

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Deadeye is a dark and disturbing thriller in the vein of The Last Broadcast.

Documentary filmmaker Rodger Pelem unravels the mystery surrounding Private Lives, a hidden- camera TV show. Created by Robert Van Korda, the show was to be groundbreaking for the time. Hidden cameras would record one couple 24/7 but four weeks into production the show was shut down. All record of its production disappeared and no-one knew of its existence. Until now. Through a mixture of interviews and rare archival footage, Pelem presents a violent and visceral account of what took place and the cover-up that was to follow. This is the true story of Private Lives.

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What goes around comes around.
 

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A young girls' body is left in a secluded area of woodland after her murder. Her ghost appears to a friend, Alex, in the night, and after her pleas for help, he sets out to find her body in order to finally let her soul rest.

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Hackney, East London, 2004. A Spanish butcher with a dream: To become a bullfighter. A dream that becomes an obsession. An obsession that overtakes his life. A dream come true.

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Eden in Northern Ireland shares few of the qualities of it's namesake. It exists around the perimeter fence of one of Ireland's largest power stations. Simon Aeppli's hometown forms the basis of a video that explores a rundown half forgotten place. Focusing on Eden's residents the video reveals a place filled with eccentricity, humour and beauty.