Projects in categories: Fiction

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A boyfriend is blamed for the overdose of his girlfriend during her birthday party.

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Following a black-market medic who carries out illegal operations for the criminal underworld. When she gives refuge to a young girl, she must choose between breaking her medical oath or crossing her ruthless employers.

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Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'

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Rhea is the primary carer for her father Martin who self medicates with cannabis; the only remedy he's found effective to offset his pain. When school bullies find out that Martin's medicine is home-grown, Rhea quickly learns that sharing is not always caring.

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Oscar-nominee Rosamund Pike plays Marla Grayson, a highly successful legal guardian with a knack for using the law to her benefit and her elderly clients’ detriment, living a life of luxury at their expense. But when her seemingly innocent next victim turns out to have dangerous secrets, Marla must use every ounce of her wit and cunning to stay alive in this wry, cutting and wholly original thriller.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2020 - Gala Presentation World Premiere

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An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather's oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020
TCM Youth Award, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2020

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An 8-year-old girl with an ability to sense danger gets ejected from Sunday school service. She unwittingly witnesses the underbelly in and around a Mega Church in Lagos.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021
BAFTA Film Awards 2021 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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A story of young love and music at a blues party in the early 1980s.
Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020

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The true story of the Mangrove 9, the group of Black activists who clashed with London police during a protest march in 1970 and their highly publicised trial that followed. The trial was the first judicial acknowledgment of behaviour motivated by racial hatred within the UK's Metropolitan Police.
Part of the BBC-commissioned drama anthology 'Small Axe'.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020 - Opening Night Gala

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Inspired by true events, NOWHERE SPECIAL features James Norton as thirty-five-year-old window cleaner John, who has dedicated his life to bringing up his son, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for his three-year-old son, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2020 - Orizzonti

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Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'

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THE BLACK SPOT follows an agent in the International Off-world Trade Federation as he uncovers some dark secrets. He is forced to go on the run with a space veteran and a psychic teenage girl as they get hunted by a mysterious assassin. A film noir sci-fi thriller, conspiracy theories abound, filmed in the Vale of the White Horse, Wiltshire, famed for other worldly crop circles. Based on the hit short film Full Disclosure.