Projects

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A story of vengeance and betrayal, of two enemies who try to exact horrific punishments from each other, but most of all, a story of two communities who simply do not understand one another.

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Donal (Tyrone McKenna) lives with his single mother Kate (Gillian Anderson) in Belfast. To help make ends meet, he works long hours after school for the local dog trainer, Good Joe (Ken Stott). It becomes obvious that Donal has a very special way with dogs, and while Good Joe is not a man to keep his word, he strikes a deal with Donal that he can't refuse. Entering into the underground world of dog racing, he offers Donal the 'Mighty Celt' if the greyhound can win three races in a row. Meanwhile, life at home becomes more interesting when O (Robert Carlyle), an enigmatic figure from the past, reappears on the scene. O and Donal develop a friendship. However, Good Joe is deeply suspicious of O and Kate is weary of letting him back into her life. A dramatic revelation is soon made, and Donal is forced to learn the harsh realities of life.

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The Mood is the story of a man who, on unleashing his pent-up anger, watches in horror as his bad mood spreads like an infection. 

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In 1971 the experimental film maker Anthony Stern travelled to Afghanistan with his 16mm film camera. The footage was lost for almost 30 years. Rediscovered in 2003, if forms the basis of this impressionistic film-poem, with an original soundtrack provided by the world fusion musicians 'Equa'.

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A man works out the meaning of London, and leaves his findings in a series of cryptic notebooks which his protégé, Jack Cade, must uncover before a mysterious organisation finds Cade and exacts a terrible vengeance.

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A modern adaptation of Gogol's famous short story. A simple civil servant's life is turned upside down when he is given an overcoat. Dark and violent, the film shows a man's struggle in a kafkaesque world.

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A man, a woman, a pair of shoes.

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Welcome to the 21st century. A story of England told from inner city London. Set amongst a landscape of police wagons and estate blocks. Trapped in a world where hate breeds hate. A story seen through the eyes of four young multi-cultural friends. One city. One weekend.  

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A poet and his friend are evicted from their studio by an advertiser, just as love is blossoming between the poet and his neighbour. The advertiser steals his poems and uses them to win her over. She discovers the deception, but too late.

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Patrick and Rose, an elderly couple, break into the derelict swimming pool where they first met as teenagers. A romantic drama in which the past is as alive as the present.  

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Set in Australia in the 1880s, the film opens in the middle of a frenzied gunfight between the police and a gang of outlaws. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his brother Mikey are captured by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). Together with their psychopathic brother Arthur (Danny Huston), they are wanted for a brutal crime. Stanley makes Charlie a seemingly impossible proposition in an attempt to bring an end to the cycle of bloody violence. Emily Watson plays Stanley’s wife Martha Stanley; John Hurt plays the bounty hunter Jellon Lamb and David Wenham plays Eden Fletcher, the powerful local landowner.

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What does a person do when the bright lights of the big city begin to lose their attraction? Go home? Back to places fondly remembered, people recognised, safety, security? But nothing stays the same, everything moves on; especially people. Three childhood friends find out that as their lives have changed, memory is the greatest illusion of them all.