Projects in categories: Fiction

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A city in Ireland, near future. An uneasy peace has hung over the city for a number of years now. Law and order is maintained by two rival gangs, the Boilermen and the Westies. Between them they rule the city.





Luke Bradley is an ordinary citizen who has avoided being involved with either of the gangs, until his child is murdered, the latest in a series of child killings which have swept the town. Each side has been affected by these deaths. Bradley is approached by Friday Knight, the leader of the Westies, to broker a deal with the Boilermen, to join forces and find the culprit.





Local rumour and whisper lead both gangs to Sam Magee, an old Preacher and religious recluse. The Preacher, pleading his innocence, is taken to Sunset Heights, a pagan stone circle, where the Druids once performed magical rites to their God of the Sun. There he is tried, executed and buried. Normality returns.





When another child goes missing, accusations fly between both sides. Following sightings of the Preacher around town the gangs go together to dig up the grave and find to their horror the body has vanished. Terror and suspicion sweeps through the gangs. No one can be trusted. Bradley is caught in the middle as he desperately tries to find the murderer before everyone is destroyed.

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Teenage brother and sister Jack and Cass live in an anonymous New Town. Their parents are away on holiday and they are alone in the house together. Cass suddenly announces that she's going to have a sex change - into another sort of woman.

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In the spirit of The Full Monty and The Commitments, Swing is the heartwarming, triumphant story of working class friends who break free from their bleak Liverpool lives to follow their dreams and launch a swing band.


Young Martin finds himself in prison, the fall guy for his brother. When Martin gets out, the guards hand him two years of unopened love letters and a warning: get a job or end up back in jail. Home is just as he left it - hopeless. Martin's only hope comes from the sage advice from his sax-playing cell mate, Jack, who taught him how to see his future and how to play it. Martin decides to start his own band.


He recruits bassist Buddy, a skirt chasing football star, drummer Oi, an ex-skinhead, and a brass section made up of bar flies who owe his dad a favour. But the one person who can transform the band from a dream to success is the beautiful singer Joan, the love of Martin's life. Joan, married to Martin's arresting officer, wonders if this is just another one of Martin's dead end dreams.


Martin convinces them all, most of all Joan, that their dream is worth fighting for. Despite a raid staged by Joan's jealous husband, the band's break-through gig is a smashing success and it lands them a recording contract, a happy ending! That is . . . until the police find that Martin's brother backed the band with stolen money and Martin ends up back in jail. But this time Martin walks out of jail with Jack and finds Joan and his band waiting and ready to swing!

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A woman travels both physically and literally in an interior space of several rooms. The film explores the space between self present cohesion and split subjectivity. The fantastical merges with claustrophobic domestical ritual.

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Take me Home is an innovative and exhilarating exploration into the bizarre and unsettling behaviour of a vulnerable specimen who streaks seamlessly through spaces and atmospheres propelled by a startling array of compelling animation techniques.

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Tattoo explores tattoos: history; women; ancient tattoos as protection; scarification; crusader tattoos; initiation into tribes; a Marquises Islands' tattoo; social outcasts; current fashion. It includes interviews with the founder of the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, the foremost British tattoo artist, a professor of 19th Century History identification marks; and a psychiatrist.

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Paul McGuigan's The Acid House is a surreal triptych adapted by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh from his collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humour with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. The first film of the trilogy, The Granton Star Cause, is a black comedy of revenge, football and religion. The second, A Soft Touch, is a story of love and betrayal with Johnny as the 'soft touch', who is all too easily manipulated by those around him. The final film is a surreal comic story about marriage, babies and an excess of chemical abuse.

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Jimmy looks like a punk, but he's a child at heart.





This modern day silent film follows him through one day - from being thrown out by his girlfriend, meeting the magical Balloon man, being chased by two slapstick thugs, to finding happiness with Iris in a roomful of balloons.

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For centuries the Chinese have tried to tame the Yangtze and stem its murderous floods. In this documentary special spanning fields of science, technology, and engineering, Transatlantic Films will chart the building of the new Great Wall of China that will stop the flooding - the world's largest concrete structure . . . THE THREE GORGES DAM.

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A young woman in her mid thirties tries on a pair of beautiful boots in an expensive up-market shoe shop. Unfortunately the boot becomes stuck and as the young lady's leg begins to swell the shop assistants main concern is the boot rather than the woman wearing it.

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In her aunt's gloomy Victorian House, Mary wakes from her sleep to be confronted by two burglars. Billy, the nervous novice and Harry, the 'old pro' are confidently rifling the house, looking for Mary's aunt's fabled fortune, but as Billy falls for Mary and Harry's 'professionalism' gives way to frustration, Mary and the house itself begin to reveal their secrets . . .

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A love - destroyed by the death of an only child. A marriage strained in the aftermath. A journey back to the cave, the scene of all their sorrow, in a bid to heal the wounds.