Projects matching: Mairi Sutherland

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Jimmy the village committee chairman is informed by letter that the village has been left $50 million by a rich American industrialist in order to improve the life of the villagers. Incensed by the size of the the legacy, the American industrialist’s son, Brad, hires an Edinburgh law firm to contest his father’s wishes. A young female solicitor, Heather, is dispatched to the Highland village to await further instructions. Posing as a tourist she befriends the villagers but is beguiled by Jimmy’s son Geordie. However, when Heather reveals that she is working for the American industrialist's son Brad, and that the village is in no position to legally challenge the his blocking of the pay out, she is shunned. Propelled to desperate measures to make amends, Heather informs Brad that the Loch Ness Monster 'Nessie' really exists and that she has seen it herself. Disbelieving, but seeing the tourist potential of the monster, Brad flies to Scotland to discover the truth for himself.

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Amber and Nigel, seventeen-year-old daughter Liberty, and Amber’s father Michael, live in London. With Amber and Nigel both made redundant, they are no longer able to pay their mortgage. Facing repossession of their house, they decide to give everything up and go north to Scotland on a camping trip to contemplate their future. Liberty and Michael elect to stay behind until things take a turn for the worst, when Liberty sees her boyfriend with an other girl. She goes North with her Grandfather after all, only to discover her parents are living in a 'Green' New Age camp with ex hippies and oddball characters. Both parents get involved in the village anti wind farm campaign as a bid to fit in, whilst also placating the ex army New Age gang they encountered on the road. Liberty is unable to fit in with life at the camp in a tent. She ventures out to meet the locals in the village. Meanwhile grandfather has a heart attack and ends up in hospital. The family is broken and only Amber has the courage to put it together again. A film about loss and renewal.

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Wayne Wilson is a primo paparazzi who has gained his reputation by stalking his celebrity clients. Feted by an editor who need his skills to increase the circulation of her magazine, he goes on a spree of photograping footballers, models and rockstars, but does not follow his brief. Eleanor the editor is not impressed. To get him to make amends, she sends him to photgraph the reclusive actress May Hudson, who has not been photgraphed for years.

He soon discovers that he cannot get her picture in the conventional manner, as she never leaves her Buckingham mansion. Wayne realises he must try to befriend May's village neighbours of film producers and actors. However they quickly quickly turn their aquaintance with him to their advantage by hatching a plan to have Wayne pose as a movie producer to get May in their movie.

Like the film Sunset Boulevard, May makes a triumphal return to Pinewood Studios when the village has-beens succeed in getting their film funded, but when she discovers Wayne is a lowly paparazzi, she drugs and ties him to the bed.

Kidnapped and helpless Wayne's life as a paparazzi unravels before him!

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A four person crew, sent to bring back a mothballed ship parked at the back of Pluto, find themselves on their way to the edge of the Universe. Captained by Sceptra, crewed by the child genius Kraz, the hopeless negotiator Caroli, and the narcissistic Wasat, the crew of the Bismillah find themselves heading out into space ten times the speed of light.
Unable to turn the ship around, they resign themselves to spending the rest of their lives together on a ship preprogrammed to travel the thirteen billion light years needed to reach the edge of the universe. They soon find themselves at odds with each other.

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The Celts need to seek a new hero to help them fight the raiding Angles.
Fingal, the Celtic hero, betrayed to the Angles led by Aeric The Axe, is murdered. Meanwhile, Roderich, the governor of Strathclyde, preparing to make himself a king by marrying the daughter of the king of Ulster, Langoreth O' Neill, has his own daughter Melangall, a disappointment to him, banished to the farm of a serf in the loch lands.

Fingal's daughter Ethne, with the aide of retainer Domlec, sets off after the Angles to avenge her father and seek help from the Picts. However, the Angles are having their own difficulties - their ship has been stolen by a Friesian merchant Aldric who had been kept captive by Aeric. When the ship is struck and sunk by a loch monster, Aldric and slave girl Hretha determine to have their revenge on Aeric.

To complicate matters, double-dealing Tudwal, the betrayer of Fingal, in exchange for the chance to marry Roderich's daughter Melangall, also sets off to find Aeric and kill him. Roderich, meanwhile, left behind to negotiate his marriage terms, finds himself agreeing that once married to Langoreth and proclaimed king, she will set off to Rome for good with her monk Oran, and be supported by Roderich for the rest of her life.

Finally, Roderich's retainer, Dyfnwal, the gentle giant who Melangall loves, realises that unless he does something to straighten matters out, the country will sink further into ruin.

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Helen Fortuno, an Italian living in London, has not heard from her brother Frank for two years. She receives a cryptic postcard from him with enough informaiton for her to track him down to a Buddhist retreat in Scotland. Along for the ride is London girl Sylvia who is using Helen's search for her brother as her chance to leave her psycho husband Gordon.

Arriving at the monastry, they are told by a monk that Frank, failing to fit in, has moved on with tantric student Fiona. At Fiona's cottage they find Fiona has been abandoned by Frank and has a baby daughter by him. Frank has gone to live on the coast but when Helen confronts Frank's ex-beach buddy Joe, she realises that Frank doesn't want to be found. Meanwhile, Sylvia takes a fancy to kilted barman Davie and invites him along. Helen feels Davie is slowing them down and provokes him into parting with them. The two women, now followed by a mysterious Man in Black, continue on their search for Frank and encounter the Jeweller, Sunshine and Sophie, who guide Helen to the Drummer Girl, a forger who has given Frank a new identity - Sid Arthur.

When the Drummer Girl is murdered, Sylvia realises they are involved in something bigger than just looking for Helen's brother.

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Robert Burns overcomes his upbringing as a farm labourer to become the national poet of Scotland. Love comes his way in the form of Jean Armour but his attempts at securing a happy relationship are blighted by Jean's father who disapproves of Burns. Finally, Jean and Robbie are married and Burns tries to settle down to a happy married life, but the success of his literary career brings with it many temptations and he is unable to resist the attention of the aristocratic women who fawn upon him.
 
Finding difficulties in supporting his growing family of children, Burns seeks work as a local tax and excise officer in the port of Dumfries as Britain is threatened by the spread of the French Revolution. He meets and falls in love with married aristocrat Maria Riddell, and he is unwittingly exposed to rumour and innuendo. Siding with the sentiments of the revolution, his republican stance provokes retaliation from the aristocracy. Walter Riddell, Maria's husband, circulates false rumours to ruin his reputation. Systematically Burns is ousted from all polite society, and reduced to poverty by his government employers. Only his wife Jean and his friend Lewars stand by him.
 
Burns, blighted by illness since youth, bids to ease his suffering by giving in to the cures of Doctor Maxwell, who wrongly prescribes mercury. Faced with death, Burns reaffirms his love for Maria, and comes to terms with his powerlessness to right his many affairs and the tragedy of his marriage to Jean as he fights to make sure his work is not destroyed. 

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AD 575 - A shipwrecked maiden, Henini, must marry the mercenary Chieftain Cathen, but on her way to him she is kidnapped by the Angle tribesman Aedgar, who sees she has land, money and a troublesome entourage. She is carrying a holy relic to Scotland and must safely deposit the bones of St Andrew to Saint Mungo. However before she can do this Fingal, the warrior is assigned to give her safe passage - a journey which leads to her abduction and entrapment in a nunnery. Can Fingal save her?

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Scotland, present day. In love with two women, drug dependent Jonnie Condor escapes the city life with voluptuous Jackie Fox. They drive into the wilds of snowy Scotland and search for happiness in time-warped Happy Valley. Jonnie tries to convince Jackie to love him, but she is not interested in his changing moods and silent pauses, and deserts him for someone her own age.

Jonnie's search for an inner paradise is put on hold as he struggles to find new direction in the wild landscape. Frustrated and defeated, he meets refined Katrina Quiver who immediately leads him on a new journey of self-understanding. Camped in the high mountains she eases his over-burdened mind and begins to make him understand that his delusions are destroying him. She begins to teach him that he must live for the moment, but he pines to return to Happy Valley and his lost past.

They return to Happy Valley, but it is a mistake, and they drift back to the fringes of civilisation where they fall out. In a moment of clarity, Jonnie gives up his drug addiction and vows to accept Katrina's leadership.

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Harry Gillespie, bookeeper for gangsters, pimps and drug barons, hides out on a Scottish island after he has escaped his former life by taking money from his 'employer'.

Harry escapes with his girlfriend, Ebony, who discovers it is only a matter of time before Harry is found and dealt with by a series of killers who come to make amends. Harry is more than they bargained for and he even surprises himself when he makes sure that none of his pursuers return to the mainland.