Projects with status: Complete

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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.

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In 'Getting Ready' we watch a faded icon of stage and screen backstage as she prepares for the greatest performance of her life - a star-studded suicide.

Captured on sumptuous super 8 film and evoking the spirit of old Hollywood, this vintage-style short premiered at the London Independent Film Festival.

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Lucy is young, Lucy is damaged, Lucy is pretty.

Aged 13 Lucy attempts to get away from her dysfunctional family, an ever arguing step dad, mum and her dull teenage life by meeting up with a '16 year old boy' on a blind date with her shy friend Becks.

Dumping her friend along the way she waits in a restaurant for Tony dressed and made up as a young woman out to catch a man. The boy she has exchanged salacious text messages with turns out to be Tony who is closer to 40 than 16.

Lucy's not concerned, maybe she always knew it. He's concerned, then infatuated. She flirts, she plays games, she's witty, feisty and outrageous, but in control. There's no doubt they get on. She asks him to take her back to his place and he does.

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Glorious 39 is a British thriller, set in London and the idyllic Norfolk countryside when Britain stands on the brink of war. Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, is at the forefront of the movement to appease Hitler whilst others, with Winston Churchill as their powerful figurehead, believe that war is essential to combat the Nazi threat.

The story is centred around the formidable Keyes family, who are determined to preserve their very traditional, English way of life in the midst of this political uncertainty.

The adopted, eldest sibling Anne is a budding young actress in love with Foreign Office official Lawrence. Anne's seemingly perfect, carefree life surrounded by friends and family, begins to dramatically unravel when she stumbles across secret recordings hidden by outside forces in the out-buildings of the family home. Whilst trying to uncover the origin of these recordings, a tangled web of dark secrets begins to unfurl, along with a growing sense of menace and betrayal.

As war breaks out Anne flees to London in an attempt to confirm her growing suspicions of evil at work. Only then does she begin to discover the true extent to which she has been betrayed.

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Music promo for Richard Anthony Jay's Gone... but not forgotten (featuring Davy Spillane).

The video was produced entirely using public domain archive footage and internet sourced materials supplemented with scanned items and photographs. Composited and animated digitally, the film captures the essence of shared memories through four different family histories.