Projects with status: Complete

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When Sid the Scarecrow is faced with his own gruesome demise, he realises he must act fast. With the help of a grumpy, old owl named Albert, Sid embarks on a quest to find a legendary scarecrow named Slash. Will Slash be able to save Sid from his terrible fate?

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Trains pass. A woman runs. The mystery begins.

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A collective film made with the London Bisexual Women's Group. It explores the idea of women and bisexuality through use of live action, animation and sound. A nine-minute experimental piece of work, which uses objects as a starting point in exploring bisexual identity.

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Lahore with its collection of people becomes a character for this short documentary. The children of Lahore all have their individual lives and dreams like us all, but are burdened with extreme poverty. Waiting for Sunrise deals with the poor and dispossessed - and really the poorest of the poor in Pakistani (urban) society.

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Waverley is an intimate portrait of an ageing woman whose ordered existence is disturbed by a random accident. The accident, seemingly insignificant, stirs up long-buried emotions within Waverley and forces her to confront her past and come to terms with her hidden demons.

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A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.

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Local drug dealer Lee finds his world turned upside down when his girlfriend leaves to live with the local hard man. Now receiving intimidation instead of giving it, Lee finds life as he knows it slipping away as he's haunted by the ghost of his dead child.

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Filmed in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, LOOKING FOR ABRAHAM is a four-minute excerpt from a stand up routine captured during happy hour in a European hostel. The comic cultivates a relationship between the audience and himself that unnervingly veers between public performance and private confession. In an environment where this self-effacing routine could be his genuine act, the audience sits uncomfortably as they try to draw the line between fiction and reality. LOOKING FOR ABRAHAM was selected for New Contemporaries 2005

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Nathan has been travelling for nine months following university. He returns home to the depths of Devon with his beautiful girlfriend, Chrissie, with whom he is obviously in love. However, although his return is eagerly anticipated by his class-conscious family (and particularly father), what they do not know is that Chrissie is black. (Past Present Future) Imperfect explores the clash between new liberal Britain and old-England, where beauty is only skin deep.   This is the second feature from Bristol-based writer/producer Guy de Beaujeu (Living in Hope). He has teamed up with director Roger Thorp to create a dark family drama that will amuse and distress in equal measure. (Past Present Future) Imperfect  is a muti-layered film that stars a selection of the best of British acting talent.

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Andy gets back from his holiday and is greeted by his girlfriend and friends. He has a surprise for them, and after embracing each of them in turn, he introduces them to someone he met on holiday; His fiancée. The friends are stunned. Their jealousy turns to anger, their anger leads to paranoia and paranoia pushes them to reach the only logical conclusion, that Andy's fiancée: is a demon. But how do you go about killing your best friend's fiancée without alerting him? Or his family? Or the other wedding guests?

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2Be is an original, dynamic, musical-documentary about human rights.   Filmed over a period of five months, 2Be follows students from Abbeydale Grange School in Sheffield, UK - a school where over 51 different languages are spoken - as they develop a series of musical sequences about human rights.   The contrast between their revealing personal stories and triumphant performances creates an intimate and inspiring documentary.

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One Sleepless night Ishmael, a young spacey urban nomad, starts counting back through all the beds he has ever slept in.