Projects in genres: Welsh

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After six years, former drug addict Jason Starkweather is released from prison. Placed in a halfway house and in a dead end job he struggles to suppress the urge to return to his old ways. His ex-girlfriend Sarah Fugate works in a brothel to pay her way through university while living with an abusive older man. Desperate to make up for his past mistakes, Jason tracks Sarah down. A shocking incident reunites the couple and they go on the run, fleeing the authorities while rekindling their love for one another. After a number of incidents on the road, including betrayal by a friend of Jason's, the couple take sanctuary in the house of affluent Richard and his daughter Shannon. Eventually the unlikely foursome are brought together by the shared pain of their pasts and forge a genuine bond as the police close in.

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Tired of his street gang's violence and criminality, Tom's plans for escaping to Paris are ruined by his mother's illness. However, whilst secretly staying at home to look after her, he devises an ingenious way of convincing gang leader Daryl of his departure.

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A behind the scenes look at The Storys and their thoughts on supporting Elton John on his UK tour.  

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Fetch tells the story of Colin doing his best to convince his uncooperative dog Cumberland to play fetch.

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A masterclass of minimalist expressionism by a class master. Dave Heron provides 33 classic expressions as a unique guide for all budding actors, two faced gits and prospective brazen liars. 'Dave taught me everything I know about acting' - L. Olivier.

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A Welsh family is in fear of their country which seems to have more mosques than McDonald's and terrorists lurking in every corner shop. The only person in the family trying to hold it all together is the mother, Karen. She has to deal with her layabout husband, who makes a joke about everything; her daughter, who no longer speaks to dad because she's fallen in love with an Indian and her son, who's secretly a racist thug. This funny and heartbreaking film deals with the paranoia of racism, the politics of hate and how it effects this family.

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Three years ago Peter found a new born lamb abandoned in a ditch. 'Ben' is now a full-grown sheep with ambitions to move into Peter’s house with him. Peter however has other ideas. 'Peter and Ben' tells the touching and quirky story of how two - drop outs find friendship in a hostile world.

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Growing up on a deserted farm a precocious boy spends his days contemplating the ironies of his austere life with his father. Lost in despair and frustration his father has no time for affection and the two hardly ever speak. One day a mysterious woman visits the farm and the men’s estrangement spirals into a rivalry for mother’s love. Her transient passing makes them realise something about themselves.

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Spring 1914 - Tom Evans invites best friend Edward Turncliffe to leave his fiancée behind in Oxford and visit his parents' estate farm in Carmarthenshire. He little knows that his father Josi has left his mother Rachel and for Miriam the local teacher, who is pregnant with his child. His daughter, 18 year-old  Catrin feels outraged and betrayed. But she finds her own passion for Edward. Emotions are laid bare as each searches for a way to unlock a captive heart in a rapidly changing world. A mixed language English and Welsh with subtitles.  

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Snowtime is the sequel to the multi-award winning short Fetch. We re-join Colin as he takes Cumberland for a walk in a snowstorm. Colin complains about the weather while Cumberland does his best to ignore him.

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In this dark coming-of-age thriller six 14-year-old kids play truant in the woods where a power struggle emerges between the two rival leaders Bingo and Paul. Who will be first to ride the stolen moped and who will be first to impress Leanne, the only girl in the group? After a hit and run incident involving the bike, the kids are befriended by the victim of the crash, a drifter named Peter who recruits the boys in a military style game designed to test their endurance, but as Peter's behaviour becomes increasingly aggressive, the kids are forced to settle their differences and embrace the dark side of human nature if they are going to survive the ordeal.

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Milo is a professional hitman living on the edge. When he fails to fulfil a contract for the first time in his career, he is forced to escape the city to avoid the wrath of his employers who are keen to make him pay for his apparent failure. Pursued by a ruthless colleague who has been charged with delivering his punishment, Milo hides out in a remote rural village where the locals mistake him for the new baker. Forced to bake bread and cakes to maintain his cover, what he discovers in the process is nothing short of a revelation. When sparks fly with the beautiful local vet, he decides to start a legitimate new life as the village baker; but with his past about to catch up with him, Milo soon discovers that you can't always have your cake and eat it.