Projects

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Frantic knockabout tragedy as Bobo is sent to clown prison for a daring but silly crime and must escape to try and prevent his family from bringing shame on all clowndom.

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Shot with available light on DVCam, Cup and Lip is the story of a drunk driver Gary who blackmails his yong son, Nikhil, into keeping a deadly secret. A gritty, poignant tale of trust and betrayal.

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A film which considers the corruption of innocents in the face of conflict.

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Tom Nightingale, a famous author of children's books, has been unable to write since the death of his wife over sixteen months ago. Closed off emotionally, the only joy in Tom's life is reading fairy stories to his eight year old daughter, Melissa.

Unbeknownst to Tom, each night while he reads these stories, Crystal, a real fairy, is also listening, enjoying the stories as much as Melissa. One night, during story time, Crystal is thrown from the windowsill. Chased by the family dog, she crashes straight into a tree. Her tiny fairy body morphs into human size. Regaining consciousness, Crystal has no idea who or what she is. When she knocks on Tom's door, she's suffering from amnesia. Fairy amnesia.

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The story of a woman's fight to retain her dignity. When she's tried all she can by gentle means, and things are only getting worse, she starts to fight back with a vengeance.

A macabre story of a victimised woman who kills the men that torment her and buries them one by one, on top of each other, in a shallow grave.

To her surprise however, the dead do not rest easy. The abusive husband she kills returns to torment her as a very real ghost. At the same time, she is being investigated for another murder by a sadistic detective, who is not what he appears to be.

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Dead Drunk is an educational short drama that looks at the culture of drinking from the perspective of a group of teenagers on the cusp of adulthood.

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Dear Nelson is a short film based on letters written from Simone de Beauvoir in Paris to Nelson Algren in Chicago between 1947 - 1956. It takes 5 moments from their long distance relationship and charts the emotional progression from heady excitement to cool detachment.

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Digitopia is a short film that goes in search of the emotional undercurrents of the digital domain. It is a film about a man living between the analogue and digital worlds, a man who works in the former but seeks his pleasures in the latter.

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Dirty Pretty Things is an urban thriller in which an African night porter enlists the help of a prostitute, a chambermaid and a mortuary technician to solve a bizarre murder. Set in a world of asylum seekers that lies behind the familiar urban metropolis. It is a tale of two cities, both of them in London.

Pietter Okwe is a doctor who was framed for murder in Libreville and now scrapes a living in London, driving mini-cabs and working as a night-porter in a West End tourist hotel. When he discovers a human heart in one of the hotel rooms he knows that as an illegal alien working without papers he cannot ask too many questions. Okwe struggles with his sense of injustice as evidence emerges that the hotel is being used to remove human organs from third world donors. Finally, with the aid of a Turkish chambermaid, a hooker and a Chinese mortuary technician, he investigates the murder and enforces a bizarre poetic kind of justice. Dirty Pretty Things explores a Dickensian landscape of rag trade sweat shops, hotel kitchens and mini-cab venues in a London that most Londoners never see.

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An intense, gripping short film exploring the emotions of two armed robbers as they contemplate the risk of a bank robbery. A strong character based film that challenges the traditional thriller genre. It tackles themes of paranoia, fatalism and love in an interesting narrative structure.
 

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Hypnotherapist Dr Michael Strother has a dangerous gift: he gets flashes of the inside of his patient's minds. Whilst trying to help a detective stop smoking, he sees in her mind a young girl floating below the surface of a stream. He is soon caught up in the detective's pursuit of a serial killer who believes he has found the secret of immortality. Although the girl has managed to escape from him, she has been struck mute by her trauma. Only Michael can get at the terrible images locked in her mind, and provide a clue as to the whereabouts of the killer.

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Dog takes place on what starts out as an ordinary day for 15-year-old Leah from Thamesmead but turns out to have a shocking and violent conclusion when her boyfriend John is pushed over the edge by an innocuous incident.