Projects in genres: Drama

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David's attempt to leave residential care is thwarted as he struggles to find acceptance and connection in the outside world.

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A woman tries to keep her family together when her son falls ill after he's bitten by a mysterious creature.

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Tony Cole knows that for the last ten years he’s been caught in a downward spiral. Selling drugs was never a crime, but it was never meant to be his career. Now he’s frustrated with his mundane daily routine and can no longer live with the constant threat of getting caught.

But Tony doesn’t realise that his middle class customers will never accept him as anything but a drug dealer and that the criminal underworld will brutally hold onto its own. His plans for a legitimate future go fatally wrong, framing him for both theft and murder.

Manipulated by those he trusts and deserted by those he loves, Tony has only twelve hours to save his life. His only choice is to sink deeper into a sordid world in a desperate attempt to claw his way back out.

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When Mary and her teenage son, Fergal, move to yet another new home, it soon becomes clear that they live their lives on the run, hiding from someone or something, terrified of being found. Trying to avoid making new friends or connections wherever they go, Fergal finds himself caught between the affections of his beautiful and feisty neighbour and his fiercely protective mother who will stop at nothing to protect her precious son.

Mary has strict rules which govern Fergal's life without which chaos and terror threaten to ensue. Their hunter is Cathal, a dangerous and terrifying man, intent on tracking down and killing Mary and Fergal. What's more, he is using a dark form of magic to find them. Mary's only defense is to use the same ancient form of magic in order to protect her son. But how long will it be before Cathal manages to outsmart her?

When local residents begin to be brutally murdered by an unknown life force, the sense of fear escalates. Is Cathal the beast responsible for the killings? Or is it the beast that he is trying to destroy?

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Three lives are connected in a world where physical communication has all but ceased.

The setting is an unknown city whose human inhabitants predominantly prefer the secure realities of an implicit inside world to that of the physical world.

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D-day plus two, northern France, the allies battle on all sides for the control of the town of Caen. Two soldiers, one British, one German, mortally wound each other and have to spend the last few minutes of their lives in each others company.

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A quirky comedy about a young boy (Jake Pratt) who seeks to control his parents via a computer.

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A mix of documentary and narrative fiction, which follows the love story of a single character as he waits to be reunited with the love of his life while going about his daily routine as a casting agent. This leads to a multi faceted storyline as we enter the lives of the various figures in his everyday working environment. The film deals with themes of love, identity and time - past, present, and future.

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Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women, one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film intercuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn.

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In a Perfect World what would you wish for?

A 12 minute film poem using the visual theme of a wishing tree, created from the surreal and lyrical answers given by the students of Centre Academy Special School, London.

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Michael McCrea owes money to Darren Perrier, the biggest, nastiest gangster in the whole of Dublin. Today's the day that Perrier will collect. But Michael is flat broke and only has 24 hours to pay up.

Michael's best friend Brenda has just been dumped. To make matters worse, she’s just shot one of Perrier’s thugs. Perrier puts a price on Michael's head, a 'bounty', so now Michael and Brenda must escape every hood in town.

Michael's dad Jim has had a vision that Death himself is waiting on his doorstep, ready to strike as soon as he falls asleep. Jim joins our fleeing couple, but it's a nightmare being on the run with insomnia.

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Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.