Projects with status: Complete

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Fakers is an off-beat, comedy crime caper set in the London art world. Nick Edwards (Matthew Rhys) owes £50,000 and has no way of paying-off wannabe crime lord Foster Wright (Art Malik).  This is until he stumbles across a lost sketch by legendary Italian artist Antonio Fraccini. Problem is it's only worth £15,000. A plan is hatched; to forge the drawing and sell it to five Mayfair galleries within an hour before anyone cottons onto the fact that there's a scam going down.   Fakers is a high-spirited and overtly optimistiv romp through the territory of trust, love, ingenuity and the desperation involved in trying to survive.

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Late summer. Along the coast the weather is about to change. A girl leaves behind a marriage and a funeral and returns home. A boy she knew before has never left. They almost reach one another. Falling Slowly is about love and missed opportunities.

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Fat Slags charts the rise and fall of our two eponymous heroines, who are unrepentantly vulgar and crass. Leaving their home town of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracy head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune.

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Nick Beattie is not amused. For one, his wife is home alone and heavily pregnant but on top of that he has just missed his last train home. Things take an apparent turn for the better when the mysterious Robert Grieves suggests they have a drink. But will Nick make it back home in time?

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The story of the biggest rolling rock party in history. In 1970, a train crossed Canada carrying some of the greatest rock acts of all time - The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, and others, lived (and partied) together for five days, stopping in major cities to play concerts. Their journey was filmed.   The Festival Express artists have sold tens of millions of albums all over the world. Audiences everywhere have come to know and love music films such as 'Monterey Pop', 'Woodstock' and 'The Last Waltz'.

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Fields is a meditation on war filmed at First World War battlefields in Belgium and Northern France in Spring 2002. Through breathtaking landscapes and an evocative soundtrack, the film asks the viewer to consider the continuum of violence in the world since 1918.

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Filler brings together children's fairy tales, TV, soap dramas and news reports to tell the story of a missing child. The video explores the cultural shifts that occur from the way these stories are reported - how notions of celebrity, voyeurism and reality are blurring private emotion with public spectacle.

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Helen Fortuno, an Italian living in London, has not heard from her brother Frank for two years. She receives a cryptic postcard from him with enough informaiton for her to track him down to a Buddhist retreat in Scotland. Along for the ride is London girl Sylvia who is using Helen's search for her brother as her chance to leave her psycho husband Gordon. Arriving at the monastry, they are told by a monk that Frank, failing to fit in, has moved on with tantric student Fiona. At Fiona's cottage they find Fiona has been abandoned by Frank and has a baby daughter by him. Frank has gone to live on the coast but when Helen confronts Frank's ex-beach buddy Joe, she realises that Frank doesn't want to be found. Meanwhile, Sylvia takes a fancy to kilted barman Davie and invites him along. Helen feels Davie is slowing them down and provokes him into parting with them. The two women, now followed by a mysterious Man in Black, continue on their search for Frank and encounter the Jeweller, Sunshine and Sophie, who guide Helen to the Drummer Girl, a forger who has given Frank a new identity - Sid Arthur. When the Drummer Girl is murdered, Sylvia realises they are involved in something bigger than just looking for Helen's brother.

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Glenda, an unemployed misfit, falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish. As her search for work flounders, her love for Freddie deepens and she feels her place is at his side.  

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What they thought was going to be a dull summer in the country is about to become the most exciting adventure of their lives, when five children dig up an eight thousand year old sand-fairy who is prepared to make their wildest dreams come true - at a price.

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Flight is an experimental digital video work which explores, celebrates and questions our relationship with flying through a series of oneiric images, sounds and text. Structured around an  imaginary plane journey Flight highlights the processes of realisation, observation and memory: a cinema of gestures, suspension and transience. In Flight, the collision of speed and stillness, comfort and danger, beauty and potential horror provide a unique passage into the unchartered territories of our mind.

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Floating Over Kolkata is a docu-fiction on the street kids of Kolkata, India. It is a journey into the mind of a girl as she becomes one of the street kids. Performances by real street children and an unusual peek into their world on the streets of the city.