Projects with status: Complete

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A British student in Japan, Kate struggles to make new friends. Determined to fit in, she programmes her English robot to play Japanese music but the robot has other ideas.

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On a bleak English housing estate a dysfunctional teenager is reduced to a mere automaton. Using heavily manipulated video and strong colourisation, Joe Magee's film conveys the surreal experience of a young drop-out. The protagonist's state of mind manifests through extreme film loops and continually recurring sound motifs. Dogs become agitated, birds circle and clocks stop working all to the backdrop of a melancholy ice-cream van.

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Banglabandu Primary School brought in the filmmaker Joanna Woodward to make a film on the subject of the legend of George and the Dragon with seven and eight year old children. The combination of the naivety in the children's art and Joanna's skills at telling a tale, has produced a very original film that will make even the most sceptical of viewers aware of the miraculous powers of characterisation that children possess.

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Sarah is 32 and wondering if she'll ever meet Mr Perfect. She places a personal ad and arranges a blind date with a hot prospect. But with a serial killer on the loose should this girl be afraid of something far worse than being left on the shelf?

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To set the scene - the year is 55 B.C. The Romans are beating a bloody swathe across the European continent. Any nation daring to defy them is swiftly and brutally crushed into servitude. Mighty Gaul has just fallen and Rome has set its sights upon a small, cold and rather damp island across the narrow waters of the Channel.   Now, with the Romans invading, it is up to three sisters to save their country from the bonds of slavery.   Smirgut - Magnificently strong, she towers over most men and then beats them into unconsciousness with a large club.   Dwyfuc - Exquisitely beautiful  and irrestible to men, she is also very spoilt and something of a control freak.    And finally, Worthaboutapig - the youngest, plainest and undoubtedly dumbest of them all.   Gladiatress - A tale of three sisters against the entire Roman Empire. With a little help from the Gods, an emormous amount of luck and a really big axe - they just might be able to do it.

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Glasgowland is an interactive narrative exploring identity and the contemporary built environment, combining cultural mythology with the architecture of memory and magical phenomenon.

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Charming black comedy about a shy young boy forced to deal with the death of his best friend. By using his fertile imagination and passion for electronics, the boy temporarily resurrects his friend. However, things start to change when the dead friend takes on a life of his own.

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Somewhere in London, two people tired of being alone, find themselves chatting on a dateline. As they talk their confidence grows. They both begin to talk about themselves in more elaborate and exaggerated ways. Finally they agree to meet. The initial excitement evaporates as reality kicks in.  They can't possibly live up to the ridiculous images they have created in each others minds - or can they? (Written, shot and edited within 48 hours).

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The film follows the story of a young boy named Will who is so traumatised by his mother's death that he retreats into silence. One day he meets Randall, a friendly but flatulent talking goose, who helps him regain his voice. However he soon discovers that the school principal, Congreve Maddox, is fattening up the goose in preparation for the Gourmand Gastronomique, a Christmas cooking competition. Will and his friends hatch a plan to kidnap Congreve's mother for ransom and the caper begins.

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A successful middle aged businesswoman receives a letter from a childhood friend who 'grew up to be a murderer'. Tension mounts on her journey to visit him at a mental institution, bringing back memories of a seemingly idyllic seaside holiday spent as teenagers in 1950s England.

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Gordon is about to be 40. Perhaps it's time to grow up. A musical comedy from the streets of Hackney.   Gordon Bennett is a small time drug dealer who bypasses the normal responsibilities of a working man and father. He drifts through life like a puff of marijuana smoke on a summer breeze. His saving grace are a romantic imagination coupled with an optimistic belief that his life will get better. Over the forty-eight hours that take him to the night of his fortieth birthday his optimism is mangled by a series of events instigated by friends, family and fate, coincidences that should make him change his life for good.   The film begins with a council tax dispute and ends with a stabbing on a council estate pavement, via a scheming father, a burglarising ex-wife, a custom dream car, two Danish junkies, half a kilo of coke in a goldfish bowl, three singing villains with varying degrees of psychosis, a very bad trip, a mysterious stripper, a disappearing boat on the River Thames and far too much marijuana.

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Hank is continually interrupted by Marty, his alcoholic neighbour, but after Marty confesses his love for the hot young girl stuck in a basement room because she can't afford the rent, Hank takes down some cheap whiskey and checks her out for himself.