Projects with status: Complete

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Departing delightfully from the usual solemn tone for documentaries on arranged marriage. East London girl Shahanara is changing from pink hot pants into a saree, to meet her husband at the airport. But she only agreed to marriage to try and heal old wounds with the family. She says that they think she is a 'slag' because she had turned her back on Bangladeshi traditions.

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Ellie (Sasha Jackson) struggles to become a dancer, despite the misgivings of her mother (Sally Reeve). She fantasises about Dance God (Brendan Cole) before meeting the down to earth Mark (Travis Oliver). With success as a belly dancer in her grasp, she must choose between her dreams and the people she loves. A truly beautiful movie for dancers and dreamers alike.

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It’s a morning like any other and a while a wife gets ready to go to work her husband organises a little surprise for her: her funeral. As the husband secretly plots with the undertaker on the phone and his wife in the background, he forgets one thing - the wife is always one step ahead of the husband.

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Exodus re-imagines the second book of the Old Testament set in the near future. Shot in the English seaside town of Margate, Exodus involved the participation of local people in key roles both on and off screen and as the many hundreds of extras. The film tells a compelling story of identity and migration and great movements of peoples in search of a Promised Land.

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One day, one table in a coffee shop. A host of top UK stars star in the gem of an anthology short. Sir Norman Wisdom, Geoffrey Hughes, Don Warrington, Vincent Franklin, Guy Henry and Finty Williams.

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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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When a young martial artist enters a fight competition for all the wrong reasons, revenge, there can only be one winner, because every night is fight night.

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A mockumentary which traces the life of Scottish director Bob McArthur who worked in Hollywood until the early 1970s. His career as a director was effectively ended in 1974 when production of his South American film was halted by its producer. He returned to Scotland to research and develop a film project about Robert Louis Stevenson. Following in the author's footsteps, McArthur disappeared for years in the South Seas. Now McArthur is being honoured in Scotland with a lifetime achievement award. As the award ceremony approaches, his story is uncovered through archive material and the memories and opinions of those who have known him.

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Struggling writer Finkle is so hampered by his inability to create. He will go to any length in his search for inspiration. His dream draws closer when a mysterious salesman sells him a suitcase full of ideas. On closer inspection it seems the 'Idea' is actually the living incarnation of the word in the form of a microscopic mite. These mites ultimately guide him to a mysterious orifice which has appeared in his ceiling through which he must enter to end his torment.

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On the window ledge of a high-rise block of flats by the sea, a suicidal pet fish knocks his fish tank towards a fatal drop. A middle-aged man endeavours to save the fish by running up to the flat, whilst a growing crowd of passers by on the ground gather containers of water in which to catch the fish. Will anyone manage to save the fish and turn his seeming suicide attempt into a successful rescue effort instead?

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Widowed Oxford professor goes to a Greek island to study ancient love spells with daughter for research, only to discover new love in the form of a Mermaid, whose inspiration allows him to complete his research in triumph.

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Joe Scott is a fading Hollywood star, instantly recognisable to the public, whose hedonistic lifestyle of sex, drugs, and celebrity has taken its toll. Handsome even in his drug-addled 40s, he leads a directionless, lonely life in his opulent Malibu mansion whilst outside the tide of public opinion has turned firmly against him. Flash back 25 years to the 1970s and small town life set to the beat of Roxy Music and Bowie. Joe's rights of passage as a young man in a tiny British seaside community lay the foundations for the Hollywood dream he goes on to experience. His budding sexuality, his boyhood camaraderie, the untoward advances of a voluptuous older woman, and his teenage actions lead to unforeseen, tragic consequences, which will ultimately force him to flee in search of a new life. Flash forward to the present day. Following news of the demise of Joe's childhood friend Boots, he makes the journey back to England for the funeral. Once there, he must face the ghosts of his past; his family, his friends and his first love, Ruth.