Projects in categories: Fiction

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The perfect dress, the perfect date, the perfect shoes - if only they fitted. How far would you go to fit into the right shoes?

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The dark story of a young man freed from prison who betrays his best friend to escape London's seedy and depraved underground crime world, Shooters was written nearly seven years ago by three friends, Gary Young, Andrew Howard and Louis Dempsey.



Last summer, they showed the script to young British directing and producing partnership Colin Teague and Marjory Bone of Cool Beans Productions, with whom Howard had worked as an actor on the 30-minute film North West One.



"I liked the fact that it was gritty and raw and not in the same vein as the more cheeky chappy gangster films that have come out," Bone explains. "It was very realistic in the way it dealt with drugs and guns and not at all glamorous."



Cool Beans agreed to produce the film with Dutch company Catapult Productions, run by Glenn Durfort, with whom Teague had studied at the London International Film School. Dutch producer Jan Bruinstroop came in as executive producer as both Bone and Teague were both first-time film-makers. The budget was raised via a private investor connected to Catapult Productions. Howard and Dempsey took the lead roles of the two friends while the cast was filled out with familiar names, such as Matthew Rhys and Ioan Gruffud. "We were lucky that Colin and Andrew played in a football team with some lads who happened to be up-and-coming British actors," says Bone.



Principal photography took place during November and December in London. The production took up residence in a huge disused warehouse above a McDonald's in the King's Cross area. In addition to providing sets and studio space, the warehouse also housed production offices, wardrobe and prop departments.



Several international sales agents are now in talks with Cool Beans to acquire the project.

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A comedy about 25-year-old man Max, who goes into therapy after meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time.

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Sex And The City meets Pulp Fiction.

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Simple . . . is a 10 min short film about a writer who gets writer's block. Stuck at his computer with a deadline to meet, Wesley is accused by Pamela of being a two timing cheat. He says he is not - she says he is. But the answer is really . . . Simple!

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Danny lives with his mother in a closed little world of their own. Sometimes the simple things are the most complex...

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Two sisters meet up at the bedside of their dying father where old jealousies and conflicts are rekindled in the emotionally charged atmosphere of the hospice. The action takes place over one day and follows the sisters as they peel away the layers of superficial closeness and find themselves re-enacting the battles of their childhood.

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Two sisters, all their lives caught in a web of competition for their father's love, are still struggling with each other at his deathbed. They have a closeness and love for each other but it is layered with subtle jealousies.

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It begins with a story of racial tensions within the army. As it develops, it embraces other hatreds and looks at the way in which difference is resolved through gladitorial combat.

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A fast-moving mockumentary following Cardiff friends, which splits and follows the lives of the boys and the girls separately. Meet the jilted generation and find out what it is like to be Skipping Without Rope.

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Small Time Obsession is a story of love and betrayal set amongst South London's Polish community.

Michael Korczynski has his heart set on training and racing greyhounds at his local stadium but is under pressure from his father to take charge of the family delicatessen. Steve is an orphan with a passion for classic cars and John is a talented musician struggling to come to terms with his depressed mother.

Both out of loyalty as friends and the need to earn money to keep their dreams alive, all three do work for amiable wide-boy, Chris, who seems to be heading inevitably towards a life of crime. This is further underlined when Chris forms a relationship with small-time villain Geordie, who is, in turn, trying to manoeuvre himself into the established underworld.

Unsettled by Chris' increasingly criminal ambitions, Michael becomes torn between loyalty to his friend and his own needs and desires which include an, as yet undisclosed, infatuation with Chris' long-standing girlfriend, Ali. However when Michael overhears Ali telling Chris that she is pregnant and Chris denying his responsibilities, he is incensed and decides to make a stand.

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Locked out of his car Simon wonders deep into an endless traffic jam. Amongst the decaying vehicles and lost souls of the snarl he is forced to face his demons.