Projects in genres: Drama

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It's nearing 3am. Rob and Eric arrive home with a clatter. Before long the residents of four flats are disturbed from their sleep.

As sounds travel, so do we, dipping into the worlds of these neighbours. As we leave, the unassuming actions of one may threaten them all.

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What would life be like if women weren’t judged primarily on their looks?

Wistful and lyrical, this is a journey through the eyes of Shabana, a passionate 25-year-old British Muslim woman in Scotland who always longed for freedom from bodily scrutiny, and found it by wearing the controversial hijab.

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Bruce and Sandra have been living together for almost a year. A week before their anniversary, Bruce receives an email with a CCTV video of Sandra being assaulted sexually in an unidentified car park. She has never told him about this and he feels curious, enraged and jealous. He is not bold enough to ask her about it, and his curiosity increases as the clues continue to arrive in more emails some of them with dangerous implications. As he delves deeper into the mystery he finally finds the car park and all the answers he had been looking for.

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A last lunch before moving on - Five teenagers inhabit the Zone.

A trip into the physical and mental landscape of five young survivors of apocalypse, on their last day of consciousness in this world. They believe they are alive and dream of rescue. But as the strangeness of their reality unfolds, we suspect they are not living but haunting.

A mysterious, eloquent film and first screenplay by award-winning teenage poet Emily Middleton.

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Cocoon is a contemporary short dark drama that focuses on the need to stay human in a concrete world.
Sophia is a toddler trapped at home with her dead mother. As days go by, none of the neighbours in the building become aware of the situation. Only Nick, the local postman, gets increasingly suspicious when he finds the letters he delivered laying outside on the flat's doorstep again.

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It is the anniversary of John’s wife’s death, a lung cancer victim. Still a smoker himself, John’s grief drives him to quit. He launches himself into the task with passion in an attempt to honour his wife’s memory. After a successful run, the addiction comes creeping back to him in the lonely night.

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As a train charges through dark suburbs on a stormy night, a troubled guard witnesses an incident forcing him into a tough dilemma.

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Crack Willow is an affectionate portrait of one man's struggle with death and loneliness. Mark Walker's journey is an exploration of emotions captured through the use of vivid, powerful and imaginative imagery. A compelling and evocative film that treads new ground.

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Part ghost story, part psychological thriller, part heart-wrenching love story Creation is the story of Charles Darwin and the single most explosive idea in history. Darwin’s great, still controversial, book The Origin of Species depicts nature as a battleground. In Creation the battleground is a man’s heart.

Torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place, Darwin finds himself caught in a struggle between faith and reason, love and truth.

This is not the grey-bearded old man that most people imagine when they think of Darwin. The Darwin we meet in Creation is a young, vibrant father, husband and friend whose mental and physical health gradually buckles under the weight of guilt and grief for a lost child.
Ultimately it is the ghost of Annie, his adored 10 year-old daughter who leads him out of darkness and helps him reconnect with his wife and family. Only then is he able to create the book that changed the world.

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Told in flashback, Crimson is a ‘road movie’ without a car, it follows the darkly comic odyssey of Jake, a dislocated youth, as he journeys by foot across Leicester over a few hours. The film is a meditation on alienation, English culture, Americanisation, and spiritual decay.

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Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley), a young woman becomes inextricably attached to a man who is stalking her. When her boyfriend goes missing, the stalker is the immediate suspect, until a game of jealousy and betrayal turns deadly.

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Cuckoo is a thriller about sounds and lies, set in modern London.

Polly used to be a star student. She had drive, determination, and a bright future. But that future isn’t getting any closer. Trapped by her job and fear of failure, Polly’s four walls are closing in. She's desperate to escape her dead-end life.

Everybody wants a piece of her - her jealous sister, her obsessed boss. The only person who doesn’t want her is her rock star boyfriend. Tugged from all sides, she’s coming apart at the seams.

When Polly has the chance to escape, her nearest and dearest have other ideas.

Alone in her flat, strange sounds surround Polly. She knows she's not cuckoo, but why won't the noises go away?