Projects with status: Complete

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In Festival, a comedy about the Edinburgh Festival, we get to know a lot of characters. Faith gets off a bus and starts handing out leaflets for her one-woman show. Sean, a famous comedian, is incredibly rude to a radio journalist, live on air. Micheline, a posh Edinburgh housewife, rents out her enormous flat to an experimental theatre group from Canada. She can't help spying on them from the close. At their house in the country, her husband and baby are waiting for her.
 
Joan, the radio journalist, wants to sleep with the charming Irish comedian Tommy. Does he really like her or does he just want five stars this year? Will the alcoholic PA Petra go off the wagon after a row with her horrible boss Sean? Will the Comedy Award jury ever agree on a shortlist? Who is that beautiful girl comic Nicky flirting with now?
 
Who will get an audience? Who will win an award? Who will find love, who is really talented and who will be the Next Big Thing?
 
Festival is about that strange month of August when the whole world comes to Scotland to perform, to watch and to drink, and every show promises to be better than the last one. For one month a year, for some people, Edinburgh becomes the centre of the universe.

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A hymn to London that takes us on a journey from the suburbs to the heart of the city, with a mesmerizing score by Saint Etienne (Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell).

London has long been a source of influence, stimulation and curiosity for the band, and the film is a poignant 'psycho-geographical' drama that celebrates the capital in both its seediness and glory. Exploring the dreams the city holds for so many alongside the reality of urban life, the result is an extraordinary record of London today. Digitally shot and edited, Finisterre evolved alongside the album of the same name. Initially conceived as a way of channelling the money allocated to pop promos into something more substantial, it became in every sense an independent production. Its development is unique: early sequences were projected as live visuals behind the band on their last tour, while the film has played recently to cinema audiences in London, Madrid, Vancouver and Tokyo.
 

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The story of a bald man's attempt to seduce a jazz singing bearded lady.

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A world-champion kite flyer attempts to teach his blind boss to fly kites. A documentary film about two people and their passion for flight.

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Myra is part Cherokee, a cleaner in the local hotel. She and husband Thomas and unemployed son Terry live in a trailer park. In 1828 gold was found in Dahlonega in the American deep south; the Cherokees were rounded up and force-marched to the west in the 'Trail of Tears'. In a moving portrait, Fool's Gold peels away the layers of affluent colour-co-ordinated shops, cafes and big cars to reveal a community, where people like Myra and Thomas, live out life untouched by the prosperity of tourism, who struggle with poverty but share the little they have with others.

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Running from the first world war, a massive influx of immigrants arrived in Buenos Aires. There were seven men to every one woman. The tango, with bravado and skill, chases a dream and cries the distance of the journey.

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Scott Martin is your average 18 year old.  He's happy with his friends Paul, Craig and Jasper. He's also happy with his girlfriend, Frankie. Scott's fallen completely in love with her, and believes she feels the same. She doesn't. Scott's friends soon find out that Frankie is seeing another guy, Cris. And, as any good friends would, they tell Scott, who of course is devastated. It's at this point that Paul jumps in and decides Frankie needs a taste of some kind of medicine: it's not her own, but hey, it works!

So, the four friends set out to get cruel, yet comical revenge on Frankie.

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Horror movie addict, Merv, dreams come true when a hapless escaped mental patient stumbles onto his doorstep. Seeing an opportunity, Merv and his best pal Onkey set about turning the naive unbalanced individual into a textbook horror flesh-slashing psycho. There are consequences to their actions however.

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An ultra-paranoid murder suspect videotapes himself around the clock so he'll have a rock-solid alibi if he's ever accused of another crime. But the one tape that could prove his innocence of a new murder mysteriously disappears and he's forced to go on the run to fabricate the evidence of the missing hours.

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Circa 1910, John Mapplethorpe, a graduate student is writing his thesis on the world renowned Dr. Sigmund Freud. To conclude his paper he is en route to interview the great man at Oxford University. But his encounter is not quite what anyone could have expected.

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Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he famously challenged IBM's computer Deep Blue to a match. Kasparov lost. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine follows the intensity of the competition and uncovers the mysterious and controversial events surrounding it from Kasparov's perspective.