Projects

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Young cat-thief Vinny has one last job to do: steal a case from local thug Big Leo and deliver it to an anonymous client - After that it is off on his travels and a new life.

But on his return from snatching the case, Vinny is picked up by a beautiful hooker called Chianti and next morning he finds that she has run off with his hotel keys, his trousers and, worst of all, the case!

Vinny sets off to find Chianti and retrieve the case before the drop-off time - or pay the deadly consequences.

Will Vinny suceed - and if he retrieves the case will he be able to pursue his dream? Or will love - or a bullet - get in the way of his plans?

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A dark animated story about a cat who, the legend has it, wants to become human.

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A study of psychological and physical endurance and gender difference. A male and female performer encircle each other in a never-ending race, the cyclical nature of which is echoed by the location: an athlete's race track.

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Psychologist Dr Howard Hall, travels from Ohio to Baghdad to visit a School of Sufis to assess their claims to possess a paranormal ability to heal the wounds inflicted on themselves during religious ceremonies. Impressed, Dr Hall invites a Sufi to visit Cleveland, to pierce himself under controlled medical conditions.

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A young girl arrives in a gallery to copy a painting by Degas. While there, she becomes irritated by the footsteps of the gallery attendant. Her nervous anxiety reaches such a point, that she accidentally flicks some red paint onto the original Degas.

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The times are changing, even for an old bogeyman, as his apprentice demonstrates. His drinking pals - a squeamish vampire, a tooth fairy who has seen better days and a redundant ghost - have some problems of their own.

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Bearing many similarities to Albert Camus' 1946 existentialist text L'Etranger (The Outsider), The Darkest Hour is a powerful portrait of contemporary urban angst, isolation and unrequited love.

Pat leads an apparently ordinary life as an attendant in a notorious public toilet where the majority of the clientele are either involved in drug deals or cottaging. The only light in his otherwise solitary life is Kim, a girl he is infatuated with, who works in a local cafe he frequents.

When he is 'provoked' into committing an act of extreme violence, Pat's subsequent unorthodox reaction to his crime leads inevitably to his life changing forever.

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When Roderick Usher is found guilty for the brutal murder of his wife, he is immediately branded insane and sent to the county lunatic asylum.

Once inside the padded cell, he finds himself at the mercy of Dr Calahari, whose mind-blowing shock treatment gives rise to a series of bizarre and nightmarish adventures.

As Roderick undergoes mind bending therapy, Dr Calahari and the beautiful but strange Nurse Smith, gradually unravel the horrible truth behind the Louse of Usher.

The director of Tommy and Women In Love returns in full force to inject his special brand of outlandish humour into this classic Edgar Allan Poe tale.

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A veteran game show host discovers he is dying and commissions a poverty stricken novelist to pen a celebration of his life. The writer gets sucked into the vicious feud between the corrupt old man and his aggressive young rival.

Pitted against each other in a race for a lucrative American format deal, the battle between the two light entertainment heavyweights spirals out of control - and the writer starts to unravel the dark secrets at the heart of their hatred.

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Set in Britain and the war-torn Sudan in 1884. To his lifelong friends, Harry appeared to have it all. He was a young Lieutenant in the world's most powerful army, engaged to a beautiful woman, and the son of a celebrated General - until the day his regiment was called up for battle in Northern Africa, and he abruptly resigned. In this moment of fear, he lost everything - except four feathers of shame given to him by his friends. The only way to redeem himself is to assume a new identity, travel across a continent, face a danger he cannot escape and find the man he was meant to be.

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When Cassie, a young American backpacker travelling through an English village is involved in a car accident, she gladly accepts help from the driver and her family and becomes drawn into their troubled lives.
A First Century church is unearthed nearby and within it a rare mural - an eyewitness record of the Crucifixion. The mural is remarkable in its perspective, as rather than featuring the figure of Christ, it shows the sinister faces of those who gathered to watch.

In the aftermath of the accident, Cassie begins to hallucinate and believes malign strangers are following her. Concussion or second sight? Is it her imagination or is she being pursued by the mural's ghoulish and immortal inhabitants, readying themselves to bear witness to yet another human disaster?

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Coll is stuck in a dead end job serving tea in a lay-by. Escaping is just a dream until she meets the mysterious old Tam Morton.