Projects with status: Complete

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Dave is about to jump in front of a speeding train, but why? Could it have something to do with a 20 year-old junkie called Megan who has just discovered she is pregnant and made a dramatic decision to turn her life around? Perhaps it could be connected to Jack, whose seemingly perfect life and relationship have started to crumble around him or maybe it has something to do with teenage runaway Stacey who has disappeared in search of someone she’s never met.

Gareth is desperately searching for his missing daughter, but no one seems to have any clue where she is, until one day, a mysterious phone call from an eleven year old boy seems to provide the answer. As Gareth takes the last few steps to find his daughter, the answers are revealed and worlds collide with devastating effect.

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A group of students are looking for the perfect place to hold the ultimate Halloween party. They gain access to an old abandoned asylum and as the party gets started, it appears that they are not alone.

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Love happens. When you least expect it.

Forget Me Not is a moving, modern day love story set against a stunning London backdrop.

Taking place over the course of one night and the following day, the story centres on Will Fletcher, a passionate musician, and Eve Fisher, a beautiful, free-spirited woman who works in the local bar. Whilst struggling to cope with a tragic secret, Will saves Eve from a drunken customer at closing time and their paths become inextricably linked. Intrigued by one another, they journey through the city, not knowing what the night holds or what the day may bring. As dawn turns to light on the London Eye and the two draw ever closer, can Will reveal the truth to Eve?

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On millennium eve, five jihadis planned to ram a western naval vessel with a launch full of bombs. In the dead of night they slipped their boat into the water. They stacked it with explosives. They stepped in. It sank.
In real life, the close up business of terrorism can be shot through with farce.
Cells are driven by the same group dynamics as football teams and stag parties.
Four Lions is based on three years of meetings with imams, community leaders, moderates, radicals, police, security services, ex mujahideen and a wealth of surveillance material from major trials.
It plunges us beyond the headlines into a cell of authentically daft 'self-start' British jihadis.
Bristling with verbal jousting and large scale set pieces, their story spirals into a farce of certainties, confusions, errors and bombs. Outlandish but authentic, Four Lions understands its characters as human but knows that humans are innately ridiculous.

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Framework is a feature length, sci/fi drama with magic realist overtones.

The story follows Daniel, a socially awkward academic who has hidden himself from the world, unable to cope with his dying partner. Tom and Cassie come to confront him but Daniel has been busy in his exile.

His opening doors to different worlds is having some rather unexpected side effects. Daniel is having a much greater impact on the world he was hiding from than even he could have dreamed possible.

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The Grimm Brothers’ short story about a petulant little girl and her encounter with the witch Frau Trude.

She sets out to find the witch’s house and is in for a nasty shock as Frau Trude has been waiting for her to help her keep her fire burning bright.

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Women are violently ripped from a container. Their shocked, Moldavian, ex-special forces, husbands are told they must win six fights. Six fights to secure their freedom and earn their wives back.
 
Their wives are ferried to sex clubs. Their children, taken to be sold.
 
The same gang has stolen one of Gabe’s luxury trailers with Zaf inside. Zaf is due to marry Gabe’s daughter in just three days. Gabe runs a boxing gym, and within minutes, 15 boxers are on the warpath.
 
Gabe’s trailer is recovered, but Cristi, the Mafia Boss, soon takes revenge.
 
Gabe’s daughter is kidnapped, his son murdered and his world turned upside down. He is told in no uncertain terms ‘it is not his country anymore’. Gabe fights to save his family and his national pride. A bloody battle ensues.
 
In this turf war, there are no rules and no winners.
 
Wins Silver Palm at Mexico
Wins Best Direct at Breckenridge
Wins Best Actor (Danny Midwinter) at Breckenridge 
 
Nominated
Best Special Effects and Best Foreign Film in LA this week at the Action On Film Festival

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'I like this house,' said Tolly. 'It’s like living in a book that keeps coming true.'

1944 - When 13 year-old Tolly goes home for Christmas to his grandmother’s country house he begins to unravel a family mystery over a century old. A hunt for missing jewels becomes a voyage of self discovery, sending Tolly back in time where he discovers that Green Knowe holds secrets beyond his wildest dreams.

The Others meets Tom’s Midnight Garden in this eerie, magical screenplay from Julian Fellowes (The Young Victoria, Gosford Park, Vanity Fair).

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Frontier Blues takes place on Iran's northern frontier with Turkmenistan. It consists of 4 stories.
Alam is a 28 year-old Turkmen man who lives with his father and works in a chicken farm; Hassan is a 28 year-old Persian man who has a pet donkey and lives with his uncle; Kazem, is Hassan's uncle and he owns a clothing store but the clothes he tries to sell never seem to fit anyone; A 55 year-old Turkmen minstrel is the subject of a book of photography by a photographer from Tehran. His wife was stolen by a Sheppard in a green Mercedes many years ago.
Frontier Blues is the story of longing, waiting, remembering, desperate men and absent women.

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Kim, a law graduate, and Missy, a party girl, are two very different sisters. But in order to make money Kim joins her sister at clubbing in order to bet on footballer's gossip. Where do they go from here?

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Game Keepers Without Game is a film set within the structure of a feature length melodrama. Formally based on the Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Play La Vida es Suena (Life is a Dream), it follows the narrative of the return of a child who had been banished from the family home. Translated into contemporary British life, the film is comprised of a mixture of acted scenes where nothing and nobody touches each other. Still shots of objects become characters and a drumming sound track builds up and breaks down like the building of a house.

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Matthew, a successful businessman, and his aging father George, a tough, bitter old man, have little in common other than their shared grief for the recently deceased Mother, but on one fateful day out their two differing worlds and characters collide forcefully in a shocking encounter of truth and discovery.