Projects with status: Complete

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Future Legend has made several fictional films covering a range of genres. Always setting themselves high standards, their emphasis has been to produce high quality short films with a clear narrative, strong characters and wry humour.
 
In their latest production, ‘Up The Hill Backwards’, Future Legend has emulated what you might categorise as the classic European film style. The Director Richard Mann has followed his cinematic influences, such as Jacques Tati, Laurel & Hardy and the Ealing Comedies, to produce a highly stylised and distinctive film.
 
Set in a lively and energetic café ‘Up the Hill Backwards’ follows the mishaps of our hero, Charlie (played by Richard Mann). Charlie has just moved to town and is enjoying the active café culture when he catches the eye of Nadine (Beccy Killgariff). Stopping him in his tracks she hands Charlie her number with the intention of meeting for a date.
 
However, Nadine realises that Charlie isn’t all he is cracked up to be.

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Charlie's new phone is behaving strangely. It's almost like it knows him. Almost. Except Charlie's phone doesn't want to keep what it knows to itself. So it's telling. Everyone.

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Wah-Wah is a semi-autobiographical 'coming of age at the end of an Age' story, told through the eyes of young Ralph Compton. Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, South East Africa, in 1969, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule.
 
As an 11 year-old, Ralph witnesses his mother's adultery with his father's best friend. His parents divorce and Ralph is sent to boarding school. Harry Compton not only loses his wife and best friend, but also his position as Minister of Education with the coming of Independence, prompting his rapid descent into alcoholism.
 
Now 14, Ralph returns home to discover that his father has re-married an American ex-airhostess called Ruby whom he has known all of six weeks. As round a peg as you could find in this square-holed society, Ruby ridicules the petty snobbery of colonial life by identifying colonial-speak as sounding like a load of old 'Wah-Wah'. Although Ralph is initially wary of Ruby, he bonds with her as his father's drinking escalates dangerously out of control.
 
Emotions climax against the backdrop of Swazi independence. Ralph throws himself into an amateur production of Camelot as a means to escape his hellish home life, falls in love and in the process begins to make sense of his turbulent relationship with his parents.

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The filmmaker returns to her hometown - Stowmarket - a sleepy backwater in rural Suffolk where nothing much ever happens. As she sits with her camera in the local taxi office, a variety of characters pass through - from restless children and old school friends to drunken squaddies. While they sit and wait for their taxis to arrive they share their dreams, desires and disappointments.

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moby longinotto compresses 24 hours of child birth into the same amount of minutes using in screen editing.

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A detailed behind this scenes documentary. Shooting in Lahore Pakistan working with charity organisations such as Smile. This film follows the directors trek from England to Pakistan and the number of difficulties he faced trying to cover a controversial topic on Child Labour, prostitution and social deprivation. Waiting for Sunrise deals with the poor and dispossessed - and really the poorest of the poor, the lowest of the low in Pakistani (urban) society.

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A multi-media video, that explores the twilit world of pathways, journeys and life choices we encounter as we move from cradle to grave. In an ebb and flow of moods and weathers, the film creates a metaphor for the journey through life where at the end people clamber up a pencil scribble of a staircase into a universe of hand-painted and crayoned stars and moons.

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A man wakes in a field with a bloody wound to the head. The only clue to his forgotten identity is a wallet and a photograph. Tracing his footsteps he discovers clues that lead to the truth - who he is really.

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Heather loves her mom, but does her mum know what love is?

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All families have crazy times, And the the MacDowells are no exception.
 
Bobby MacDowell, the youngest of three, looks back on the last two weeks of normality in his childhood - the last two weeks before his mum became ill. Trouble is, his sister seems to be constantly shagging yet another new boyfriend, and his brother seems to have some hair-brained scheme to reveal the identity of a newspaper editor. And not one of the kids has time to listen to their mum.
 
Wicham Road  is a humourous and heart-warming story of a family: a fast paced and quick-witted slice of life in which the MacDowells, have lived in a kind of limbo for the past ten years, are finally forced to face the future.

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There’s nothing special about Pamela Plagely: her husband doesn’t understand her, her son is doing time for dealing skunk and her doctor wants to fill her up with chemicals.

But she’s not having any of it.

With a little cross-cultural communication Pamela discovers the remarkable medicinal properties of yam and begins to take an interest in promoting her own well-being.

But Pamlela’s alternative health choices attract unexpected attention. Events sweep her out of her predictable daily routine and into public view, where the media machine is waiting.

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Yasmin (Archie Panjabi- Bend it like Beckham) is a spirited women whose life in the North of England has become a precarious balancing act as she attempts both to please her traditional Pakistani family and enjoy the freedoms of western life. Having rebelled against her family as a teenager, Yasmin yields to the demands of her widowed father and agrees to marry a cousin 'from home'. The omens are not good when the goat-herder from a Pakistani village meets the vivacious, westernised Yasmin.

After the shocking events of 9/11, Yasmin's life begins to change; her innate sense of confidence starts to evaporate and she becomes increasingly ostracised at work. Yasmin is only jolted out of her crisis of identity when she witnesses the brutal internment of her husband under the draconian rules of the Anti-Terrorism Act. The injustice of this event forces Yasmin to re-evaluate her faith, her culture and her relationships. The scene is set for a compelling and and topical personal drama of what it means to be Asian, Muslim and British in the 21st century.
Written by Simon Beaufoy (highly acclaimed writer of The Full Monty), the film is an emotionally resonant story, threaded with a rich vein of wit, irony and juxtapostions.