Projects with status: Complete

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It's the year 2004. A company called Cortex exists. It advertises its services by way of the Internet. The role of this organisation is simple: if you want somebody dead, simply push a few buttons and pay. The organisation collects the money and immediately finds the best professional hit man for the job. The killers are the first human beings to be implanted with a miniature "Eyecam". This permits them to record their work. Their work is then downloaded, shown to the client and ultimately sold by Cortex to those who can afford it. Tom Lawson is one of these Cortex killers. He doesn't know why he has to kill these people. He only knows he has to do it and follows the orders. He never asks questions. And the only reason he does it is for the money. He has just been commissioned to kill a little black kid. But today this killing will lead him to an unexpected love story and to his last days within the organisation.

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Set against the backdrop of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, Washington Post journalist, Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) meets Anna Malan (Juliette Binoche) an Afrikaans poet covering the hearings for South African state media.   His horror at the relevations at the truth commission leads to instant animosity between Langston and Anna, but as he becomes increasingly drawn into her world and her passion for the country of her birth, he softens his stance and, against his will and principles, falls in love with the white African.

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A secret agent accepts a coded mission which is intercepted by a listening station. A cool, complex thriller with a twist.

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Late one night Teenage Danny finds himself caught between two highly-strung and drunken individuals. Becky accuses Josh of attempted rape. Danny doesn't know whom to believe. Becky insists he fetch the Police but Josh is adamant that she is wrong, he is intent on leaving the scene but Becky pleads with Danny to stop him. Violence erupts.   Danny is forced to question his own burgeoning sexuality; does he really have the same urges as the morally dubious Josh?

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Cut and Run takes a reality biting account of what life is like for a family on one of London's many council estates. A family that is tested to the limits as their world gets turned upside down.

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As the sun sets on a busy day in the Welsh capital, Nia and Meredydd return home to prop-up their relationship and cosy, metropolitan lifestyle with another evening of evasive conversation, each fearing a truth that may, in fact, set them both free and revive their once happy marriage.

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When an East End butcher boy discovers his lover's been unfaithful, he resolves to win back his lover's heart, no matter what the consequences.   Daddy's Boy is a dark comedy that proves the way to a man's heart really is through his stomach.   Warning: Not Suitable for Vegetarians.

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Through a series of ghostly reminiscences a young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the story unfolds, hero worship turns to revulsion, as the web of deception and violence that Johnno creates is revealed, pulling narrator and audience into its destructive wake. Manipulated live-action mutates and combines with ghostly digital animation.  

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The film produced for S4C by TV company Fiction Factory, takes viewers on a 2,000-year odyssey through Europe's oldest surviving bardic tradition. It takes in everything from Aneirin's sixth century war reportage to today's modern poetry slams, along with subtle clues to the secrets of its survival.   The film features some of Wales' greatest performing talents. Sian Phillips, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys and Rhys Ifans are among those reading poems while singer-songwriters Cerys Matthews and John Cale perform their own arrangements of two Welsh melodies. The film has a stirring musical score composed by Catatonia's Owen Powell and Bedwyr Humphries.

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The tale of Josh, a man at the end of his tether for whom wine, song and women no longer hold any pleasure. He books a call girl when spurned at a bar. Tara the call girl is not happy about being called out during daylight hours. However a job's a job. These two damaged individuals come together like a jigsaw puzzle forming a picture of the intricacies of their lives. They find in each other a difference and similarity that brings to them both a moment of hope.

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Dancer is Glasgow writer/director Ewan Stewarts' gently comic debut. The film chronicles the trials of painter Brian, who is trying to trace the identity of the elusive Ray Bolger. His discovery leads him along a well known road.

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An enterprising father decides to pay a bear to cut his young boys hair, however, things take a sinister turn when it becomes clear the bear may in fact be nothing more than a large dog with a pair of scissors!