Projects matching: Martin Smith

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A gay man confronts his belly fat in a shop changing room, triggering him to relive an abusive past relationship. Who can save him from his own body?
Official Selection FilmOut San Diego 2022

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In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, former Secret Service agent and Presidential guard, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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When a young showman visits a new town he struggles to fit in. Seagulls explores the subtle differences in the lives of these teenage boys and how cultural bonds that are deeply ingrained are never far from the surface.

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Jamie adores his older brother Donald but begins to doubt his tales of their absent father. A short film exploring two brothers growing up in Scotland one summertime.

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Amy lives on an island off the coast of Scotland where not a lot happens but the good news is that she is leaving for the big city and university. She gets a camcorder and begins documenting her new life with new friends.

She soon befriends the other girls in her halls and they have a lot of fun together. She becomes particularly close to Clare who seems to have some dark secrets in her past and only trusts Amy. The relationships between the girls develop and intensify and Amy starts to change in ways she did not expect.

Clare persuades Amy to play pranks on one of the other girls in the flat, but as Clare's methods become more extreme Amy starts to doubt the sanity of her new friend. There will be blood, seduction, murder and terror before Amy finally has to confront her friend.

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Reaney wants to belong. When he runs away from home he has to survive on his own.

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Accidents is the story of Marko, who after missing out on a party with his mates, mooches around his bedroom alone. He then takes to the beach, where a chance meeting with a girl makes their lives seem better. A touching and genuine story of teenage relationships.

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The Stone of Destiny was used for centuries in the coronations of the monarchs of Scotland until it was captured in 1296 by Edward I and taken to Westminster Abbey where it resided for over six and a half centuries. Stone of Destiny tells the true story of how on Christmas Day 1950, four Scottish students took the stone from Westminster Abbey, hid it in Kent for a few weeks before returning it north to Scotland. It is based on the book The Taking of the Stone of Destiny, written by Ian Hamilton, the leader of the students.

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In a life where violence begets violence, 13-year-old Nico reacts to a beating from his brother by stealing his cat. He then engages in an act of wanton brutality with devastating consequences, in this powerful and affecting film.

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Despite having excellent witness descriptions of possible suspects, vain and uncompromising police detective Fred Andrews becomes increasingly frustrated by his lack of success into a traumatic series of missing persons investigations.
 
Fearful that he is replicating the errors of a previously botched-up police investigation, narcisistic Andrews deduces that a mysterious white van is the key to unwinding this growing police debacle, and more importantly the platform for his own meteoric rise throught the ranks. As the number of abductions increase, key suspects are progressively eliminated, egos clash and tempers fray until the self-centred detective eventually zeros in on his nemesis. In the final confrontation, Andrews realises that capturing the psychotic killer will almost certainly rocket his career, but it will fail miserably, to bring true justice to the missing souls.