Projects in categories: Fiction

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The story of a young boy from Nepal who spends his days working on a road development breaking up stones. His family were internally displaced during the insurgency in nepal and he left school in order to support the family.

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Carol Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambition and desires. After endless parties, too many dead end jobs and family arguments, Bailey becomes Self-Destructive. Resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love, Bailey enters a world where his friends are unable to follow. After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise, things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are others who will stop at nothing to make Bailey's life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug fueled parties, Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.

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London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. It was the illness of Keats’ younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny’s efforts to help and found himself agreeing to teach her poetry. By the time Fanny’s alarmed mother and Keats’ best friend Brown realised their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, “I have the feeling as if I were dissolving”, Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats’ illness proved insurmountable.

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In 1974, a hot-headed, 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted out of the drudgery of civilized society, and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams, he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to 7 years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. Assuming the celebrated stage name Charles Bronson, he has forged an outrageous reputation through hostage taking and rooftop protests to become a notorious figure in the public's consciousness.

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Bunny and the Bull is a comedy road movie set entirely in a flat. Stephen Turnbull hasn't been outside in months, and when he finds his mind hurtling back to the disastrous trek around Europe he undertook with his friend Bunny a catalogue of adventures unfolds. Stephen's flat becomes the springboard for an extraordinary odyssey through lands made up of snapshots and souvenir replica landmarks within his imagination. Bunny and the Bull is a touching and beautiful journey to the end of the room.

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A young woman's perspective on her albinism.

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One of man’s greatest fears: a bathroom door that won’t lock! As far as we know it’s an old joke. A man tries to use a public restroom, and after finding the cubicle door won’t lock, he decides to go anyway. He then finds himself in a conversation that could lead in a bad direction.

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Piero, an intrusive old man, knocks on his young neighbour's door: he needs to go to a police station, by a river, a good way away. Reluctantly, Elio agrees to drive him, but takes someone else with him on the trip: Layla, his ex-girlfriend's ferret! During the trip, these two men help each other to accept the loss of their women, not without misunderstandings and funny moments.

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Canbury is a trilogy of stories concerning the lives of six twentysomethings, dealing with their progression (or lack thereof) beyond the confines of adolescence: two friends discuss their opposing attitudes to relationships; a male and female fail to act upon their mutual attraction; two males sit comatose through boredom.

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This film contemplates the character of Trellick Tower, a high-rise council building in West London. It explores the building and how it relates to its inhabitants and surroundings and how it reflects the character of the architect Erno Goldfinger.

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A man and a woman go for a drive - there are consequences.

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In The Cut-Throat World Of Fashion, Beauty Is The Beast. Someone is killing the beautiful people. Four supermodels have been slaughtered and mutilated in the last few weeks. Meanwhile, in the wild world of Manhattan’s fashion jungle, a new face is getting everyone’s attention - BASIA, a young beauty with a mysterious past, has caught the eye of both the establishment and the underground. JAKE, a hip young mix-DJ whose star is on the rise, is falling in love with her. DANNY, the hottest fashion photographer in New York, wants her too – for complicated reasons. DESIREE, boho-punk documentarian, feels Basia is a vital element of her new verite movie. And HAMISH, an all-but-burnt-out homicide Cop, has some questions for her. While the killings continue, while the city lives in fear, Basia is drawn into the whirlwind of neo-stardom and begins to lose sight of who she really is. All along, in teasing, taunting flashes, Basia’s repressed memories have been surfacing – tortured, confused memories of orphanhood and abuse - A pattern of abuse that has both buried her memories and awoken an ancient genetic pattern, dormant for generations. Basia’s bloodline is very old. Now, trapped in his apartment studio, Basia discovers to her horror that Danny is the serial killer. And she is to be his next victim... Yet, when Desiree breaks into the studio moments later, it is Danny who is dead. Ripped to pieces as if by some rampaging beast. And Basia is nowhere to be seen. And finally the secret self within Basia is free – a human/animal hybrid of feline grace, awesome power, terrifying beauty, and a primal urge to kill. Rampaging through New York, killing innocents and evading the police, she ends up in the sewers, surrounded and protected by the giant cats that have escaped the circus to join their new Empress. Somewhere within the Beast, Beauty is screaming. Only Jake can help her now. Only love can pull the trigger.