Projects

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A powerful short film about a young black man who believes he is Muhammed Ali. Based on a ten month study carried out by the film's director Rodreguez King-Dorset for the Department of Health, to explore the issues relating to schizophrenia within black African Caribbean populations living in rural England.

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Two old gangsters meet up in a derelict and deserted shower house. Are they here to settle an old score, or to make an illegal transaction? Tension builds to a climatic confrontation of macho ego, but a predictable outcome is unlikely.

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In this gently absurd film a couple are dragged into helping a man they have never met with extraordinary results.
 

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A totally different take on a short film. Rather than a conventional narrative, this is a collection of vignettes showing how 5 contrasting characters: an ageing lothario; a disillusioned yuppie; a movie-obsessed kid; a tense commuter and an 80 year old distance runner find solace and reassurance in their fantasies.

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A man with a refined skill to predict human behaviour is torn between his work and his family in this melancholy tale about the future of assassination.

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An alienated labour force; a constant quest for exterior perfection; unnatural and forced behaviour: it's enough to make your blood boil and your soul scream.

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A period drama, which combines live-action, animation, and poetry to create powerful visions of war as inspired by the experiences of war poet Wilfred Owen. Winner of NE Royal Television Society Award for Best Independent Production by an Independent Producer and Best Cinematography.

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Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family move in next door and build a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven.

But this is 1960s England, and when the neighbours start to make life difficult for the new arrivals, David's Jewish family is caught in the middle, and he has to choose between fitting in and standing up for the new friends who have turned his world upside down.

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Yellow Bird is a small tale of innocence and hope. Dan and his adolescent friends play increasingly dangerous games. On a building site, they construct a giant kite from scaffolding and tarpaulin, and haul it to the top of the hill in an attempt to fly it.

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Set in a steamy Glasgow of the early 1950s, the film focuses on the existential crisis of Joe (Ewan McGregor), a rootless young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by the down-to-earth Les (Peter Mullan) and his enigmatic wife Ella (Tilda Swinton). One afternoon Joe and Les happen upon a corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder?

As the police investigate the case and a suspect is arrested, it becomes evident that Joe knows more about the drowned woman than he is letting on. Meanwhile, against the background of this mysterious death and the 'murder' investigation, Joe and Ella embark on an intimate and passionate affair.
 
Tim Cumming, writing in The Guardian, 8 August 2003:
Alexander Trocchi was the smack-addled icon of beat literature, whose writings have been eclipsed by a lurid life of porn, pimping and dissolution in New York, Paris and London. But with a new film out adapted from his novel Young Adam, the Glasgow-born writer's life and work are ripe for re-evaluation.

 
 

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Tension in a London office reaches boiling point when Joseph discovers someone has stolen his yoghurt drink. Winner of the Digital Guerrilla 48 hour Filmmaking Competition 2002, Young Office People is a slapstick comedy and homage to the modern action genre.

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An impressionistic portrayal of one man's experience of being an outsider. Chased by a gang of local bikers, we only understand the true nature of the man's identity as he falls prey to his hunters. The film uses the latest in post-production techniques to explore its theme.