Projects in categories: Fiction

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An astronaut braves a pioneering solo mission into deep space, leaving behind her loving husband. Through disjointed communications, she discovers her life on Earth has changed forever. A short sci-fi drama on the elasticity of time, love and loss.

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In the year 3000, the nuclear war that has ravaged planet Earth 500 years earlier seems almost a distant memory. A new greener and bluer world flourished from the ashes of the old, a new world has been taken over by giant moths.

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Amongst the iconic landmarks of London, a man overwhelmed by despair and burdened by life, stands on Waterloo Bridge contemplating finding peace at the bottom of the Thames. A concerned stranger stops and urges him to reconsider. Will her actions act as a catalyst in his life or death decision?

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Two friends must quickly dispose of a dead body before the day is over, but their actions only make matters worse, causing their bodycount to rise and leaving their Irish neighbour hot on their trail.

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When ten year old Megan Lancaster meets a grizzly and untimely end, Sam is forced to return to the remote tidal island where he grew up to attend the funeral. A testing relationship with his disconnected parents, a reunion with his estranged girlfriend Rachel, and a cryptic message from the island’s doctor force Sam to investigate the events leading up to Megan’s tragic death. The truth is far more shocking and unbelievable than Sam wants to acknowledge, and his life begins to spiral out of control in a macabre descent of paranoia. Sam must race against tide and time to expose the seedy underbelly of the island – and to save the lives of those he loves. Debut feature film from director Richard Rowntree. A disturbing folk horror film which taps into our primal fear of what lurks in the woods.

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A woman in a small town in 1959 England decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. A decision that becomes a political minefield. By exposing the locals to cutting-edge literature of the day such as Nabokov’s 'Lolita' and Ray Bradbury’s 'Fahrenheit 451', she sows the seeds of an awakening in the conservative town. Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Berlinale Special Gala

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Bookended by the 2011 London riots, Benedict Seymour’s dramatically, politically urgent new film retells the story of Chris Marker’s 'La Jetée'. A man has been sent back into the past as a way of rescuing the future, his tale told by way of the Narrator who riffs on familiar film dialogue and contemporary references – unpicking the political implications of his journey and our retro obsessions. A collage, narrative, essay film hybrid, 'Dead the Ends', plunders some fifty years of cinema – including dystopian sci-fi – and uses emojis and gifs as ways of exploring the undercurrents of historical and current visual language, as well as present entrenched, systemic inequality. Cross-currents of thought and broad swathes of material are incisively manoeuvred, whilst, in its intellectually and dramatically gripping shape and scope, the piece feels part-situationist, part-Borgesian. It asks, in richly creative fashion, how did we get here? (LFF brochure) Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Four old friends navigate birth, love, death and the canals of southern England. Fuelled by booze, drugs and the stunning beauty of nature, their increasingly intimate reunion becomes an uplifting meditation on what it means to be middle aged in a world that refuses to grow up. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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Based on a true story. Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.

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Two couples appear to live in marital bliss until cracks begin to appear in both seemingly steady marriages. The film asks the question 'How well do any of us really know each other' and explores the ideas of love, lust, and family relationships.

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After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption. A fictionalized account of Tutu's struggle with brutal murderer Piet Blomfeld (Eric Bana) over issues of concession and redemption. Adapted from Michael Ashton’s play 'The Archbishop and The Antichrist' Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Debate Strand - World premiere

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Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman. Adaptation of the crime novel 'The Snowman' by Jo Nesbø.