Projects in categories: Fiction

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A young girl's experience - intimidating, overwhelming and ultimately enlightening - as she negotiates the sexually-charged world of a male paraplegics ward.

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A boy-meets-girl story with a sting in its tail. And goldfish.

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Blending celtic mythology with abstarct animation and dance Oenghus tells of the celtic God of love in his search for the beautiful yet fated Caer, a maiden facing death by a cruel father in defiance of a transformation curse.

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Two days into Martin's new job as apprentice undertaker, his boss drops dead. Martin's prospects seem bleak until a multinational conglomerate buys the business.

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A cartoonesque comedy of manners, telling the story of a man, helplessly in love with Minnie Mouse, trying to pursuade his girlfriend to dress up as his idol.

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The bomb which exploded in Omagh on August 15th 1998 was the worst terrorist atrocity in the history of Northern Ireland. Twenty nine people died. It follows the courageous struggle back to health of two of the many children who were injured. Narrated by Liam Neeson, it is a poignant reminder of the terrible cost of the conflict in the Province.

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Director May Miles Thomas described her debut feature as a "camcorder epic". Besides writing and directing One Life Stand, Miles Thomas took on DoP and editor duties. The result - affirmed by Screen Digest - was the UK's first digital feature, screening in partnership with Digital Projection Inc.
Following a premiere at Rotterdam, the film screened around the world over a two year period, winning multiple awards and drawing an impressive amount of attention and acclaim for both its drama and innovative technical aspects.
Miles Thomas herself won a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and was recognised by HM The Queen as A Pioneer to the Life of the Nation for her work as a digital film-making pioneer.

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He who returns has never left



Pablo Neruda





When Sarah Hopson realises her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved.





Sam Murray runs a restaurant. He and Sarah grew up together and Sam hoped they'd grow old together. His world fell apart the day Sarah left and now she's back; standing on his doorstep telling him she'd like to spend some time with him, turn his life inside out all over again. He introduces her to his wife and explains that now, his time belongs to someone else.





Sarah leaves the restaurant dejected and returns to the house where she grew up, where her father still lives. Not that he wants to see her. Frank has been sitting in the same arm chair for the last seven years and doesn't particularly want to get out of it. Not for anybody. Not until his daughter tells him why she's back.





One More Kiss is a story about rediscovering love and how when perceptions are forced to change, life can hold an entirely different meaning.

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A film about identity crisis in Britain in the late 1990s, One Thick Second opens with a man, Scott (Jon Webb), being thrown through a glass window. Cut and bruised, he refuses to accept help from those he encounters as he goes on the run, eventually winding up in Cornwall, where he meets Lena, to whom he reveals the reasons for his escape.



The film is the debut for director Will Pugh and producer Chloe Wyatt, who both have experience in shorts and promos. Pugh wrote the screenplay in 1997, to fill the gap between the two types of film Britain makes --- Nil By Mouth on one hand and Notting Hill on the other. It attempts, he says, to "portray life as seen by a man who inhabits the cultural no-man's-land familiar to a large proportion of Britain's youth". In true guerrilla fashion, Pugh and Wyatt begged, borrowed but stopped short of stealing to raise the £12,000 budget and equipment they needed to make their film (and received an Arts 4 Everyone Express National Lottery grant).



The film was completed in December last year and enjoyed three successful screenings at Bristol's new arts cinema The Cube. While Pugh is busy promoting the film on the festival circuit, including Montreal and Split, he has nailed down a broadcast sale with UK digital channel SkyNet.



Meanwhile, the shooting experience taught Pugh and Wyatt several lessons, which they have posted on their website at onethicksecond.cjb.net. They advise new directors not to shoot in 24 frames per second, to plan post-production before shooting begins and to employ a good stills photographer. They also exhort other guerrilla film-makers to take the "vow of no-budget", cheekily subtitled Dogme 99, which includes avoiding "vapid hipness, guns, gangsters, drug deals and other bullshit, unless real and experienced first-hand by the producer/director". The vow also forbids giving up once production has begun.

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With it's compelling tale of romantic tragedy in nineteenth century Russia, Alexander Pushkin's epic novel 'Eugene Onegin', has moved and intrigued audiences for 150 years.


Captivated by its powerful narrative about love and loss, award winning actor Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler's List) and his sister, director Martha Fiennes, have assembled a talented and exciting team to bring Pushkin's story to the screen.


Evgeny Onegin is a jaded and disaffected young man who leaves St Petersburg unexpectedly when he inherits an estate from a wealthy uncle. In the country, he is a city sophisticate out of place, with little affinity for the countryside or its people. Nevertheless he strikes up a warm friendship with a neighbour, Vladimir Lensky and, despite his natural cynicism, he is charmed by Lensky's love for his fiancée Olga. He is also intrigued by Olga's sister, Tatyana, a spirited beauty who surprises him with a passionate declaration of love. Onegin is disturbed by her directness but unable to respond and, coolly and politely, rejects her love.


As if needing to demonstrate the cruelty of his nature, Onegin later insults Olga and is challenged to a duel by Lensky who's code of honour prevails when Onegin attempts to extricate both of them from the confrontation. Onegin's shot is fatal and, grief-stricken, he cradles his best friend's body in his arms. Afterwards he leaves and goes into self-imposed exile.


Six years later, Onegin returns to St Petersburg where he again encounters Tatyana, now married to his cousin Prince Nikitin. In realisation of the bitter mistake he made years ago, Onegin determines to claim her and Tatyana is faced with the most difficult decision of her life.

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John Wallace stars as a sadistic prison warden spending the last hour with a condemned man. A film noir homage to the American prison films of the 1940s.

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There was a man . . . and there was a shed. He needed to come . . . so he invented a gun . . . and that was the start of something beautiful.