Projects in genres: Drama

Synopsis

Midnight Madness is Europe's first basketball film.

The film follows Nhamo Shire, the founder of the Midnight Madness tournament, and two players, Mike Martin and Pierre Henry-Fontaine, as they battle through the summer to make it as one of the top 10 basketball players who will go to Los Angeles to train and compete against their American counterparts.

Nhamo recollects how in 1999 he launched the first Midnight Madness in Harlesden as a means of deterring teenagers from gangs and crime when they are most vulnerable: night time. 9 years on we follow him as this extreme basketball tournament rages in twelve cities across the UK. Midnight Madness culminates at Crystal Palace where 5,000 screaming fans attend the finals.

We also follow Mike Martin who lost his mum a couple of months before the summer and wants to win the tournament as a tribute to her memory and Pierre Henry-Fontaine who's dream of making the big time in the United States ended prematurely. He now sees the opportunity of playing against the Americans in their own backyard as a means of proving to himself he can play and compete with the best.

Far from the violent picture painted in the media of inner city life we discover through Midnight Madness passionate, hardworking and touching individuals trying to make a difference.



 

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A young girl's carefully crafted magical world shatters when her mother is hospitalised and her estranged grandma comes to stay. The only way grandma can communicate with her is via the fantastical stories she tells. As they battle each other their new roles in the house, they come to terms with their grief.

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What would you do if you met yourself?
Sam Bell is nearing the end of his contract with Lunar. He’s been a faithful employee for 3 long years. His home has been Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone, mining Helium 3. The precious gas holds the key to reversing the Earth’s energy crisis.
Isolated, determined and steadfast, Sam has followed the rulebook obediently and his time on the moon has been enlightening, but uneventful. The solitude has given him time to reflect on the mistakes of his past and work on his raging temper. He does his job mechanically, and spends most of his available time dreaming of his imminent return to Earth, to his wife, young daughter and an early retirement.
But 2 weeks shy of his departure from Selene, Sam starts seeing things, hearing things and feeling strange. And when a routine extraction goes horribly wrong, he discovers that Lunar have their own plans for replacing him - and the new recruit is eerily familiar.
Before he can return to Earth, Sam has to confront himself and the discovery that the life he has created, may not be his own. It’s more than his contract that is set to expire.

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Love is like a hired suit. It often doesn't fit.

Charlie wakes up the morning after the night before with an unexpected houseguest. They both just need to make it to the church on time.

A bittersweet comedy about two guys with jobs to do this morning.

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Grieving the death of her adoptive mother, Alison tries to track down her natural mother to find a replacement 'Mum'. She sends out a videotape as an introduction.

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Nuclear physicist, marijuana connoisseur, school teacher, money launderer, gentleman, fugitive and spy.

Raconteur, travel agent, writer, philosopher of science and supposed 20th century gay icon.

Rock Music tour promoter, public speaker, board game appreciator and the biggest dope smuggler on the planet.
 
Mr. Nice.

From: Kenfig, South Wales, 1945. To: Oxford University, Germany, London, Ireland, Pakistan, Amsterdam, Thailand, Ibiza, Majorca, Manila, America. Jail.

Contact with: the mafia, CIA, IRA and MI6.

43 aliases, 4 kids, 89 phone lines, 25 companies throughout the world and over one million books sold. We follow Howard’s prodigious rise. And fall. This is the frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal story of Howard's life so far.

'The most sophisticated drugs baron of all time - He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone.'

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Taco is a young American living in London trying to come to terms with his brother Scotts death. As he drifts through the city at night he allows his memories of the past to pervade his imagination and considers the effect of his loss on his life and relationships.

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Judge Dunn wakes from his slumber, greeted by a figure at the window. A woman. She speaks. He asks her name and she replies, 'My name is Sarah Hayward.' The Judge ponders frantically as four sour words spill from the woman’s mouth. 'I KILLED MY SON.'

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A school class discuss a poem, which has more relevance to their lives than they at first think.

This was the winning entry to the National Youth Theatre and BBC Blast's 100 Words scriptwriting competition for under 19 year olds.

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In 1984, Simon Kelly met someone. Quite an interesting someone. Over the years, the one thing he remembered about her was this. She said she'd be dead before she was 25.

So, over 20 years later when he sees her on a train, he can't understand why she doesn't recognise him. The odd thing is, she doesn't look any older. Phil Harrison agrees that it's more than a little strange. When they find out she committed suicide in 1986, the situation becomes even more difficult to explain. Until they notice the sell by date, and realize what's happened. They set out to find out more, and as they do, a plan is formed. Will it work, and how will they know if it has, or not ?

Some people have said the 1980s never went away.

Simon Kelly just found out they were right.

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For almost thirty years Ned Randall has been trying to make it as an actor. Now in his forties his biggest claim to fame is playing a corpse in Taggart. Always believing that his big break is just around the corner he is affectionately referred to as Next Time Ned by his friends, family and the local community. However 'lady luck' may be on Ned's side as a documentary crew have decided to spend a week in his life in order to discover what drives his pursuit of a career in an industry that's doors seem forever closed to him.

Over the course of the week we follow Ned to several amusing but disastrous auditions, witness his first attempt at stand up comedy, follow his attempt to find a theatre willing to produce his one man show of Reservoir Dogs: The Musical. We also join him as he attempts to reconcile his relationship with his son and deal with his ill mother. Often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking but always entertaining Next Time Ned is a story about a man refusing to give up on his dream.

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An old soldier thinks back about his life in love and war.