Projects in categories: Fiction

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Radical Tendencies is a social realist drama about Tahir Masum, an everyday young university student, whose life is changed when he is racially abused and influenced by a new “friend” into the world of radicalisation.

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High-flying City lawyer, Amy Mustafi, moves into stately Winterstoke House in the English countryside following a breakdown at her work place, caused by the bipolar disorder she has battled all her life. Amy is charged with setting up the new family home while her husband Shayan ties up a business deal abroad.
A Romanian housekeeper and her young brother are engaged to help Amy run the house. They soon find a sealed off entrance to the former servants’ quarters of the estate. Upon opening the long-forgotten door, a string of seemingly supernatural incidents begin to occur.
Amy discovers the mansion has guarded a mystery for over a century. In 1914, three servants disappeared and the estate was swiftly abandoned by its former aristocrat owner, who fled never to return. She begins to obsess over solving the mystery, whilst unknowingly stoking her simmering mania. Is there something else at Winterstoke House with Amy? Or is it all a phantasm borne out of Amy's mental instability?

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Taking place over 10 days in the lead up to Christmas, 1966 and based on a true story. Infamous gangsters the Kray twins sprung Frank Mitchell (aka 'The Mad Axeman') from Dartmoor prison. Frank went into hiding in East London in a flat on the Barking Road with just a hostess and minder for company, whilst a national manhunt ensued for him and his capture.
As Christmas fast approaches, the characters locked in the flat become desperate, fearful and suspicious. At the behest of the Krays, Frank writes to the Home Secretary, and his case is debated in the Houses of Parliament. If he receives a parole date, he will agree to hand himself back in. This offer is declined and Frank becames a liability.
Frank falls in love with the hostess 'Lisa', and the dysfunctional family enjoy a final Christmas Eve dinner. On Christmas day, Frank thinks he is leaving the flat to go to the countryside and to be the Kray's right hand man. In fact he is taken outside, put in a van and shot multiple times.

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Harold Miller is a lonely thirty-something with a bizarre obsession. Harold Miller loves boots. After a mysterious intruder steals his favourite pair, the Little Reds, he sets out on a journey across West London.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Laugh Strand

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The true story of a profound, unstoppable and undying love based on the best-selling book by St John (Singe) Greene.
Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, had their lives turned upside down when Kate was diagnosed with an incurable breast cancer. Over her last few days, she created her list: writing her thoughts and memories down, to help the man she loved create the best life possible for their two sons, after she was gone.

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A foreign graduate struggles to find work and falls into London's sex industry and criminal underbelly. We followi the lives of the employees and clients of an illegal massage parlour in London, as seen through the eyes of the receptionist, a Taiwanese graduate.
A film inspired by true events.

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A portrait of multi-cultural London following a group of friends who grew up together on an estate in North-West (NW) London.
Central to the story are Natalie and Leah, whose lives have taken them in different directions. Natalie’s wealth and ambition have set her apart from the friends and family she grew up with – and she finds herself asking not only who she really is, but where she belongs. In an area where wealth and poverty are only streets apart, life is fragile – as Natalie and Leah are about to find out.
Based on Zadie Smith's best-selling novel.

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The adventures of writer and magizoologist Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards, seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts' trilogy.

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Elizabeth Sloane, an ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
Sloane is brilliant but ruthless. Notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs, even when it puts her career at risk.

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The true feel-good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Based on the international best-selling novel written by Bowen with Garry Jenkins.

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Abe, a reclusive, mentally ill, homeless man struggles as he tries to make sense of his life on the streets of Los Angeles.

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BRITISH WINTERS is a British comedy drama about a self-pitying barman who believes his life is in a state of crisis.