Projects

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Between 1969 and 1999 over 1000 died in police custody in Britain. In this controversial documentary four women fight to find out how their own loved ones died. Each family is met with a wall of official silence and the film documents how they unite and challenge this together. The documentary uses powerful exclusive footage filmed over a five year period and witnesses the families' pain and anger at the killings.

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Lydia has come to London. She wants to lose herself in urban anonymity; fade into the background of city life. She wants to forget the atrocities of the war she has left behind in her homeland, Yugoslavia. Her nightmares are filled with the horror of this war and, tortured by these nightmares, she is pushed to the edge of madness. But she is waiting. She waits to be followed. She knows he will find her and she waits to be found.

As children, Lydia and her twin brother Stefan, were witness to the murder of their parents; Lydia turned to the church and nunhood, Stefan to the gun and the ways of the devil. But Stefan, now a wanted war criminal, has disappeared off the face of the earth.

By day, Lydia makes frequent visits to Father Ignatius, seeking forgiveness for her brother's sins. By night, she is consumed by the vileness of these sins. She seeks peace and an end to the terror, to the waiting. But there are others she must deal with before the pain and suffering can end.

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John Bayley, adoring husband to the famous novelist Dame Iris Murdoch, holds on to what he can as the witty, brilliant Iris slips into the devastation of Alzheimer's. A poignant, poetic evocation of a modern literary legend confronted with true love.
 
Adapted from the writings of John Bayley.

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Ancient Egypt. A lump of solid gold is used to create the mythical crown of Cleopatra, a crown, which can convey enormous power to its wearer but also carries a deadly curse.

Present day, 1940s movie star Madeleine Duboit wants to commission ex-secret security expert, Jack Brown, to 'borrow' the crown from the British Museum so she can play her final role. Meanwhile Seldon Gotti - a vain and pompous businessman - offers Jack an enormous sum of money to steal the crown to fulfil his dreams of world domination. Jack, a man of morals, turns them both down until a series of threats gives him the impetus to join forces with Duboit, resulting in an exciting but unusual showdown at Gotti's lair.

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Thought-provoking tale of a teenage girl who, after being abandoned by her father, is determined to make a new life for herself and her kid brother: no matter what that takes.

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A poetic meditation on photography and the passage of time following the interwoven pathways of veteran Newcastle photographer Jimmy Forsyth (83) and Newcastle photographer Sneha Solanki (28).

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The story of an ordinary guy with an ordinary job enjoying a 'quiet' night in.

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Ronnie wants 'to be a somebody'. He buys himself a classic old Cadillac which he loves more than life itself. When the local loan shark comes after some money Ronnie owes, he hides the car and claims it has been stolen, aiming to get the insurance money and keep the car.

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It's Dolly's round, but the local 'cream tea brigade' have expensive tastes, so Dolly heads for the pier arcade. Here, her secret admirer, Mr Bondini the pier mechanic and sometime magician, has his own hopes before tea-time.

Dolly must chose between keeping up appearances and love on Worthing pier.

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It's 1970 and Tamar is 10. When she is taken to visit her grandmother she enters a world where nothing makes sense. What is Buba so scared of and why is everything in her flat painted red? Tamar is frightened.

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Charlie is on a stupid mission of revenge against the Popstar who stole his wife.

Vincente is on the run, trying to get away from the country to escape a contract castration ordered by the man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Charlie is probably the only person mad enough to give Vincente a lift to the remote Scottish airfield where he plans to fly to Spain.

From now on, little is certain as these two lost souls get more lost on their journey to their own private wilderness.

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Stephanie is a talented young singer frustrated by the lack of success she is experiencing with her Lo-Fi band and the mundane nature of everyday life. However, after a chance meeting with a publicist, Stephanie is given the opportunity to reinvent herself as a conventional solo pop star.

Initially Stephanie resists,however, when two members of her own band leave in order to join another, more successful group, Stephanie agrees to undergo the gruelling physical and musical transformation that her new record company believe will result in pop success.

Having allowed herself to be recreated in the image her record company believes will make her both physically and commercially attractive, Stephanie finds she is rapidly rewarded with a level of success she had once thought impossible. However, in doing so Stephanie is also forced to give up her free will, having effectively handed control of her life over to the record company who dictate every aspect of her world, from where she lives to whom she is seen out with. Confronted by her complete lack of control over the life she thought she wanted, Stephanie is forced to try and reconcile her new found success with her true persona.