Projects with status: Complete

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A young boy receives the gift of piping from a sinister fairy, in this traditional Scottish Gaelic animated tale complete with 21st century bagpipe soundtrack.

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Pipes Cups and Switches is about how the human facial expression has extended to switches and other inanimate objects. And how pipes look like neck joints and the back of the head with the ears sticking out, resembles a cup. The film is shot to the accompaniment of pop and techno music. There is no dialogue except for a few words spoken by some of the participants.

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Ray, bleary-eyed after a sleepless night following yet another burglary, shares the slow lift down from the 13th floor of his high-rise with an aging but belligerent skinhead and his bull terrier. The skinhead's angry. The dog's hungry. Ray just wants to be left alone - that's not gonna happen.
 

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An ancient tale retold, of a city under siege and the terrible action taken by one woman to save it.
 
The city elders are prepared to surrender, but Judith has other ideas. From the battlements she has watched Holofernes, the enemy general, and now she plans revenge and triumph. When they meet in his camp, they discover more complex desires and needs in each other, and during one night work out a passionate and dangerous relationship. By dawn Judith is victorious, but it is a bitter victory.
 
Does patriotrism justify any action? Is Judith a hero or a maniac? Is Holofernes oppressor or victim? Is this a story about the sexiness of war or the savagery of sex? Can violence ever generate peace, or does it just keep the brutal cycles of war, defeat, victory and reprisal circling forever?

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A character study of the relationship between a professional poker playing mother and her film making daughter, set against the backdrop of the World Series of Poker. 

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Polanow is a winter’s tale from Eastern Europe. It tells the old, familiar story of the end of love. In this version, a beautiful ice queen marries a warm-blooded mortal. She tries to show him Polanow, her mystical birthplace, but he does not have enough magic in his heart to see it.

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A typical day in the life of a not so typical old lady.

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A man finds a magic lamppost.

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The big day has arrived - everything is planned. He's going to propose to his girlfriend - it will be the perfect day. But when he sees her at the station, he sees a bizarre man who keeps appearing, seemingly to no-one but him. Turning this into a hell of a day!

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A street gang cross Glasgow to witness the arrival of a group of Somali refugees. A closely observed portrait of racism, friendship and adolescents

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During the Bosnian conflict the population of Sarajevo spent almost four years under seige. This is a story of how a troubled youth strove to keep their sanity through the music they made; parties they organised and radio they broadcast. We chart the last ten years of a music scene and a youth culture still carrying the scars of war but looking toward the future with hope and spirit.

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Robert Burns overcomes his upbringing as a farm labourer to become the national poet of Scotland. Love comes his way in the form of Jean Armour but his attempts at securing a happy relationship are blighted by Jean's father who disapproves of Burns. Finally, Jean and Robbie are married and Burns tries to settle down to a happy married life, but the success of his literary career brings with it many temptations and he is unable to resist the attention of the aristocratic women who fawn upon him.
 
Finding difficulties in supporting his growing family of children, Burns seeks work as a local tax and excise officer in the port of Dumfries as Britain is threatened by the spread of the French Revolution. He meets and falls in love with married aristocrat Maria Riddell, and he is unwittingly exposed to rumour and innuendo. Siding with the sentiments of the revolution, his republican stance provokes retaliation from the aristocracy. Walter Riddell, Maria's husband, circulates false rumours to ruin his reputation. Systematically Burns is ousted from all polite society, and reduced to poverty by his government employers. Only his wife Jean and his friend Lewars stand by him.
 
Burns, blighted by illness since youth, bids to ease his suffering by giving in to the cures of Doctor Maxwell, who wrongly prescribes mercury. Faced with death, Burns reaffirms his love for Maria, and comes to terms with his powerlessness to right his many affairs and the tragedy of his marriage to Jean as he fights to make sure his work is not destroyed.