Projects

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Comedy set in the world of bowls. Try as he might, the roguishly handsome Cliff Starkey, just can't keep out of trouble. In his sleepy hometown on the English coast, nothing much inspires him, apart from bowls. Cliff has always preferred to play by his own rules much to the disapproval of the regimented, elderly fraternity. Before long, the bad boy of bowls is turning the sedate and very English pastime upside down with hysterical results.

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A woman meets her partner in a disused railway toilet after a bungled heist. Realising that he carelessly killed someone as he made his escape, she decides to go it alone. But he has other plans.

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Bloody Magic is a story of Zack, an eleven year old schoolboy, who's family is visited by three debt collectors. A demand for money is made and the men wait for payment. Zack takes his cue and the magic show starts but who wants to watch? And more importantly, is he any good?

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A movie that tells the story of an archetypal human life using images taken from All around the World and The Last 100 Years of Cinema.

The images span the microcosm - inside the body - through the individual - the first cry of a new born baby - to the macrocosm - accumulated archive footage of ritual celebration and the carnage of war.

The editing, music, and the mythic narrative arc of the material is designed to take the viewer on a roller coaster tour of the human body and life cycle. Every possible depiction of the human life from microscopic medical to portraits and newsreels, from births to deaths, are cut to a powerful music track by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead to create a powerful and highly emotional film, with peaks of ecstasy and troughs of despair.

The power of this film derives from the force of numbers; each face, each person, each body, each glimpse of anatomy, is both abstracted and dignified by being part of a huge flow, a torrent of humanity larger that any of us can conceive.

A Century of Human Drama and Struggle captured in Moving Images.

The film is supported by a highly innovative website project which can be seen at www.bodysong.com.

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Boogaloo is a ten minute short, starring Sue Johnston as a fifty something woman, in a disco fever bathroom telling her story of falling in love.

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Bouncer tells the story of one night in the life of a doorman when events spiral out of control resulting in fatal consequences. This is a night when the threat of an angry punter coming back turns into a bloody reality - Just another night that becomes a living hell.

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Set in the 1930s, the world of the Bright Young Things is one of nightclubs, dancing, jazz and speed. Their lives revolve around an endless series of parties and pleasure seeking: motorcars, jazz bands, gossip journalism, drugs, gramophones - Inevitably, however, the frantic pace of living takes its toll and one by one they begin to crash and burn in the search for newer and faster sensations.

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Butterfly is a journey from life to death and back. It is a kaleidoscope of colour, sound and movement that lies somewhere between art and entertainment, speaking eloquently and subtly of the cycle of life and the transience of the moment. Nothing lasts forever but there is always hope in beauty, form and harmony.

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When Annie's husband dies of leukaemia, her best friend Chris comes up with a novel way to raise money for the hospital that cared for him. Why not produce a calendar featuring the two of them and fellow Women's Institute members in traditional WI poses - making jam, pressing flowers, knitting - but just to make it more interesting why not have them in the nude? News of the scheme spreads fast round their small village in the Yorkshire Dales and before long the women are hitting the headlines at home and abroad, an inspiration to millions of women around the world. But this sudden celebrity starts to take over their lives and, during a publicity trip to Hollywood, the friendship between Chris and Annie begins to crack.

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Amateur boxer Tony is about to be married, but struggles to express his doubts and feelings to his best mate and sparring partner Craig. Contrasting the 'beautiful brutality' of the boxing ring with the uncomfortable intimacy of the locker room, Causing Grief explores the ambiguities of masculinity.

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When Reuben buys a black-market cure for his unusual chest complaint, Jenny is forced to make a terrible sacrifice. Chasm is a black comedy, set in a time when trading body parts has become commonplace and blinding light and torrential rain overpower the land.

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Toyshop owner Harry Sankey (David Thewlis) leads a simple life in the quiet Northern town of Gigglewaite, but the sudden and tragic death of Nancy, his beloved wife and the idolised mother of his estranged son, Sam (Sean Ward) soon turns it all upside down. He then finds himself trying to cope, just as unsuccessfully, with the unusual role of quiz show contestant, believing it to be Nancy's last wish for him to participate in the popular but bizarre TV show 'Cheeky', hosted by the brilliant cheesy Alf Price (Johnny Vegas). Once persuaded, Harry reluctantly joins the crazy show and coincidentally meets another Nancy (Trudi Styler), his charming fellow contestant, who attempts to draw him out of his misery.