Projects

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Jennifer was given everything a girl could wish for. Norah learned to survive on nothing. Now it is time for the tables to turn. Locating, stalking and mimicking the life of her twin sister, Norah decides it is time that she had it all - and no-one will get in her way. This is a dark film which delves into the mind of a twisted young woman whose lust for the 'perfect life' is fuelled by jealousy and hatred towards her sister. Ever since the twins were separated at a young age Norah knew that she had the harder life. Years later and Norah finally tracks down Jennifer. She has a nice flat and a loving boyfriend and seems to be living a dream. Alan, a hard-working young doctor, is devoted to Jennifer and sees their relationship growing stronger day by day - especially with the news of Jennifer's pregnancy. From his point of view nothing could be better! Unfortunately Norah does not share his idyllic sentimentality.

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A tense, personal and unscripted account of a young British fireman's last visit with his Middle Eastern family, 48 hours before he is deployed to Iraq. Using still images and slow-motion, the documentary focuses attention on emotionally charged events dramatically altering the experience of so-called 'real time'.

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Sue, Gina, Denise and Kate meet every Wednesday in their local for a chat on love, life and leg waxing. What starts as a typically drunken night, changes into a moral test on friendship, the secrets we keep and what it takes to find true friends.

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Flight 93 is a film about 9/11. It tells the storyof the day through a meticulous re-enactment of events surrounding United 93, the last of the four hijacked aircraft, in the belief that by examining this single event something much larger can be found - the shape of our world today.

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Untitled is a metaphor for a sleeping woman in a state of dream or of psychological disintegration. She gradually reassembles, suggesting either a movement from deep dream-like sleep or more likely a pull back from the decision to die. The human capacity to survive terrible terror, whether on an individual level or as a collective persecuted group, sometimes seems to defy understanding. Bruno Bettelheim, a child psychoanalyst, survived Dachau and Buchenwald but in peacetime, at a mature age, decided to end his own life. It is this choice: the choice, and the possibility, of escaping psychological terror, that enables humans to reconstruct themselves from even extreme disintegration. To paraphrase Nietzche - the thought of suicide gets one through many a long night.

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A group of enterprising students strive against the odds to achieve their dream of acting on the big stage. The youngsters decide to stage Shakespeare's Macbeth at Crewe's Lyceum Theatre and recruit Eric Shepard, a once feared and respected theatre director, whose own career has been cut short by injury. The film, like the play they eventually put on, is a triumph of perseverance and self-belief.

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This debut feature film, written, choreographed and directed by its leading man, the black dancer Rodreguez King-Dorset, shows a creative dance artist in a desperate search for identity in a white-dominated country. The film depicts the lives of two boys in England in the 1980s, one a newly arrived African, the other an Afro-Caribbean, and highlights the ethnic tensions between their respective groups. The young black Briton, Lewis, has to face scorn and misunderstanding from his father when he tries to become a professional dancer. Lewis has a close friendship with the African, Ramsey, and a rewarding relationship with an Afro-Caribbean girlfriend, Maudi. His African friend is imprisoned for a killing he was forced into in sheer self-defence, and this only adds to Lewis’s confusion. He sets out to create a solo dance, which embodies some of his emotions. Finally he shows himself being questioned by an external examiner in the final stages of his thesis for a DPhil. He makes a spirited defence of his views to a sceptical examiner and the film shows in flashbacks some of what is going on in his head as he formally protests to his examiner.

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Holly invites the stunning, vampiric-looking Vicki to take part in the documentary she's making about the weekend vampire scene, even though Vicki claims not to be a 'weekend' vampire. Soon vampire-style murders start occurring. Holly discovers that Vicki is responsible for the murders and is devastated. Vicki offers proof that she is a real vampire, Holly finally believes her, and agrees to help her to feed while continuing to film her. Holly then discovers that Vicki is pregnant with a 'vampire' child. As Vicki's craving for blood becomes more urgent, Holly finds herself taking more and more extreme risks for Vicki. The police are closing in and Holly enlists the help of Adam, a young weekend vampire who is in love with her, and they all escape to the coast. The vampire baby is born, and as Vicki and child are starving, Holly now sacrifices Adam to feed them. As the sound of police helicopters circling above the beach hut gets louder, Holly and Vicki must make some difficult decisions.

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Maurice and Ian are old friends, veteran English actors who never quite hit the bigtime. Now in their seventies, they continue to work (Maurice, for example, is playing a corpse in a television drama) but spend much of their time discussing their ailments over breakfast in a favourite café. When Ian's great-niece Jessie arrives from the provinces, she quickly tries her great-uncle's patience. But Maurice is taken with the girl, and proceeds to show her the cultural sights of the capital. Maurice tries to teach Jessie something about life, but in the process he is surprised to discover how very little he actually knows now that his own life is drawing to a close.

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After a failed suicide attempt Dawn is sent away by her psychiatrist to recuperate. On a deserted Norfolk beach she finds a dying mutant mermaid. Dawn manages to resuscitate the creature, only to find it feeds on sexual energy and starts to produce hallucinogenic slime.  

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As a young couple discuss the idea of giving up smoking, the sounds of a neighbouring argument spill into their flat. The argument makes them question their own marriage, while doing nothing about the neighbouring situation. Meanwhile, a young teenager argues with his mother as he tries to sneak out to a party with friends. His mother blackmails him into staying home, using his guilt against him.

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Alienated and battle-scarred, Wes returns home late from school delaying a trip to visit his dying Nan. Martin Radich's film considers the pleasure of memory and pain of loss.