Projects in genres: Literary Adaptation

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Immerse yourself as a dark-web hacker in LILI, a neo-noir interactive adaptation of Macbeth set in contemporary Iran. As Lili plots a murder to secure her husband's rise in the militia, your covert actions expose the machinery of surveillance, power, and violence in a regime where nothing stays hidden. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Immersive Competition Official Selection Venice International Film Festival - Venice Immersive

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With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother. An exploration of the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, set against the backdrop of Almería, Spain, based on the novel by Deborah Levy. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Competition - World premiere

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Jess and her husband need a new start, so when the chance to buy a rambling old house comes up, they leap at it. But not everyone in Suffolk is welcoming. The locals know a secret about the Maple House, and soon, Jess realises they've made a huge mistake. Something bad happened in that house. Something nobody wants to talk about.

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In 1938 Peter Lucas keeps a journal of British inaction against fascism. His wife Prudie designs ‘Lovers of Gudrun’, for Stockport Garrick Theatre. As Czechoslovakia is occupied, with Peter consumed by politics and Prudie obsessed by Gudrun, fault-lines in their personalities and marriage crack under pressure of impending war.

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Ivan Ilyich is a magistrate in the late 19th century Russian empire. After an innocuous injury, Ivan's health deteriorates, and he is forced to come to terms with death. He looks back on his once illustrious career, his relationships, his worldview. Was that all how it ought to have been?

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Adapted from the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson the film has been developed as a film/theatre hybrid with certain elements filmed in front of a live audience. The film follows lawyer Utterson as he tries to find out who the illusive Mr Hyde is and what power he wields over his friend Dr Jekyll. Official Selection Edinburgh International FilmFestival 2023 - World premiere

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In 1986 an amateur theatre group staged a production of Macbeth so disastrous that it made international headlines ... allegedly. Forty years later a filmmaker sets out to find out what really happened. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works alongside colleagues who have ostracised her. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken. Just when the possibility of a salvational friendship (or maybe more) takes hold and forms a singular glimmer in Eileen’s darkness, her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime that alters everything. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Premieres - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY follows the adventures of a 14 year old girl in medieval England, as she navigates through life and avoiding potential suitors her father has in mind. Official selection Toronto International Film Festival 2022

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The arrival of Patrick into Marion and Tom's home, triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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A tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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An adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel about a woman who breaks with the forms and traditions of her time when she falls out of love with her husband and begins a torrid affair with a man who works on their English estate. World premiere Telluride Film Festival 2022