Projects with status: Post-production, Pre-production

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Juan Lozano, a successful Elvis impersonator from Merthyr Tydfil, pushed his dedication to the limit by undergoing numerous surgeries to more closely resemble his idol. One of these surgeries has left him nearly blind, leading to the difficult decision to retire his Elvis show. As Juan prepares for his last performance as The King, he reflects on his remarkable 20-year career, celebrating the highs and facing the sacrifices made. Now, entering his twilight years, Juan is determined to step out of Elvis's shadow and rediscover his true self. After years of writing his own songs, he’s now ready to be recognised as an artist in his own right. Set against the backdrop of the Welsh valleys, this hopeful film explores themes of identity, the destructive pursuit of perfection, and the resilience found in living with a life-altering disability.

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Based on a true story, KILLA BEE follows Bryony “Killa Bee” Tyrell , a mother, nurse and professional MMA fighter. By day, Bry fights to save lives in the ICU; by night, she steps into the cage, where fighting becomes her escape, her therapy and the one place she feels in control. But as the pressure mounts, cracks begin to show. A raw, heart-pounding and cinematic portrait of resilience and purpose - a visceral and inspiring sports thriller that delivers an emotional knockout, celebrating the power of endurance, identity and the human spirit.

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Kirsty is desperate to help her mate Becky, trapped in a cycle of drug-dependency. However, as Becky's life spirals out of control, Kirsty finds herself pulled back into a violent and dangerous world she fought to hard to escape.

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A couple travels to a secluded family home to restore it ahead of an appraisal survey. But their weekend is interrupted by an unexpected visitor whose presence tests the limits of mutual desire and causes passions to collide, leading to fatal consequences.

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Grieving the loss of his husband, a reclusive composer is thrust into an unlikely new family - a tough nurse, her sharp 10-year-old daughter, and the autistic gardener who saved him - forcing him to rediscover life through unexpected bonds.

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Eryri, North Wales, 1780. Maggie Jenkins has spent her life caring for her dying father in isolation. When he finally dies, she sees a chance to escape the life of duty that has defined her. But then her brother Endaf, long presumed dead, returns through the snow with a wounded Algerian soldier in tow. Welcomed home as a hero, Endaf soon reveals himself to be cold, controlling and dangerous. When the village takes Maggie’s home and inheritance from her and gives them to Endaf, she is pushed to the brink. Set against the brutal winter landscape of 18th-century North Wales, an elemental revenge drama about a woman forced to fight for her freedom — and what happens when she finally refuses to be silenced.

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Carrying forward an ancestral practice, Mama Sarahn and Sekesa, two formidable Black midwives, provide safe home births for families in Atlanta, Georgia. Forced to work underground in a state where home-birth midwives cannot be licensed, they lead a campaign to change the law. Through intimate birth scenes, captured in timeless black and white, the film follows their fight for recognition against the backdrop of a maternal health crisis that disproportionately impacts Black women.

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Trapped on a bus after being abducted by its sinister driver, a young mother must find a way to escape before it reaches its final destination.

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An engineer, secretly living in her car while driving for a rideshare app in Berlin, picks up the man whose firm rejected her credentials seven years earlier. Now she must decide how much of her disappearance was done to her, and how much she chose, before she loses her daughter to the same silence.

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Brave as whiskey Bold as brass A laugh like a bell And a warmth unmatched, built hearth upon hearth Your house rumbles Excerpt - 'The Public House Rumbles' by Alexandra Ewing Shot in the single location of a Glaswegian pub, PUBLIC HOUSE is a sequence of vignettes, some characters recurring and others not, just like real life. A myriad of eccentric and troubled souls pass through, looking for a drink, solace, a conversation, someone to love, an audience, sex, an explanation, revenge, or just a place to be. The film delves deeper than the sum of its parts, asking existential questions. How did we end up here? Why do we do what we do? Should we try something else? Ultimately the film is about committing to something. To an idea, a place, an affair, grief, a philosophy, family, a tall tale, loss, love, a joke, a friend or simply trying to make it through the day.

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When a woman disappears in an underpass, her grieving friend investigates. But after she too vanishes, the mystery erupts across social media. As more women disappear from the same location, the internet fractures into competing theories: a hidden serial killer, institutional failure, or something supernatural. Told through CCTV, livestreams, mobile phones and social media, SAINT MARIA'S WAY begins as a true crime investigation before mutating into a supernatural found-footage horror. The film explores our cultural obsession with public investigation, surveillance and the spectacle surrounding violence against women, asking whether constant documentation ultimately reveals the truth - or feeds the monster.

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When Russia started its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Slava Vakarchuk immediately joined the army. He is the lead singer of Ukraine's most popular rock band, Okean Elzy. He has put himself in danger by performing hundreds of times for the troops at the front, and is an articulate and highly respected advocate for his country's right to exist. President Zelensky gave him and his band a new mission - a world tour to champion Ukrainian culture and raise the morale of refugees living abroad. The band's performance at their sell-out concert at the UK's Royal Albert Hall acts as the spine of the film. The band was formed on the dawn of independence, and their songs have become anthems of pro-democracy revolutions ever since since. The film charts the band's 30-year history with contributions from a varied group, including Timothy Snyder, Andriy Shevchenko and music producer Ken Nelson, all to tell the story of how 'soft power' can be used as a weapon of self-defence.