Projects matching: Vadim Jean

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Zebra Girl is a psychological thriller with a bold streak of pitch-black humour that explores the vicious cycle of abuse and mental illness.
Catherine’s seemingly perfect rural life is turned upside down after she discovers her husband is hiding a dark secret that leads her to the unthinkable. Murder. Cue Anita, Catherine’s mysterious best friend who shows up to help dispose of the body. As Catherine and Anita reminisce whilst chopping up and bagging up, their intimately intertwined and tortured past rears its ugly head. Reality blurs as Catherine’s tragic past is slowly revealed along with a secret she’s hiding to fight for the future.

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The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

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The story of three men who have spent longer in solitary confinement than any other prisoners in the US because of the murder of a prison guard in 1972 at Angola, the Louisiana state penitentiary. Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were convicted by bribed and blind eye witnesses and with no physical evidence. Targeted as members of the Black Panther party the film follows their struggle against the miscarriage of justice and their cruel and unusual treatment. Known as the 'Angola 3', their story culminated in 2016 with the release of Albert Woodfox after 43 years in solitary confinement.

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With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?

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Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King spent almost a century between them in solitary confinement in Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentary. They are known as the Angola 3. Herman and Albert are still in solitary confinement after thirty six years in solitary confinement. How could this be?

In America. Today. In The Land Of The Free... Is a documentary feature that examines the story of these extraordinary men who appear to have been targeted by the prison officers for being members of the Black Panther Party because they fought against the terrible conditions and systematic sexual slavery that was rife in the prison. They were subsequently convicted of the murder of a prison guard. There was no physical evidence against them and the main eye witness was bribed and promised his freedom by the warden in exchange for testifying. After years in the oblivion of solitary confinement, this year has finally seen dramatic developments of the Angola 3. This documentary tells the on going story of the case of the Angola 3.

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An immigrant taxi driver reluctantly takes his female passenger through a number of unplanned stop-offs during a long night-time journey. Various revelations along the way gradually reveal that each struggles with a different side of the same issue. The final location at dawn leaves the two characters changed forever.

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Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. The film is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick, and it seems that what makes us tick is complex, dark and ludicrously funny.

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Jessica Parker is unhappy with a world where injustices happen every day. Added to which she's just been clamped, had no sleep - courtesy of a flat mate's over active libido - and is about to go bankrupt.
Well, that's it, she is going to do something about it and that she does in Just Desserts, a 30-minute HTV drama.
Directed by Vadim Jean (Leon the Pig Farmer) the drama follows Jessica, played by Hilary Maclean (Dangerfield, The Bill, Taggart) as she attempts to redress the balance of society barely worthy of its occupants.

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He who returns has never left



Pablo Neruda





When Sarah Hopson realises her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved.





Sam Murray runs a restaurant. He and Sarah grew up together and Sam hoped they'd grow old together. His world fell apart the day Sarah left and now she's back; standing on his doorstep telling him she'd like to spend some time with him, turn his life inside out all over again. He introduces her to his wife and explains that now, his time belongs to someone else.





Sarah leaves the restaurant dejected and returns to the house where she grew up, where her father still lives. Not that he wants to see her. Frank has been sitting in the same arm chair for the last seven years and doesn't particularly want to get out of it. Not for anybody. Not until his daughter tells him why she's back.





One More Kiss is a story about rediscovering love and how when perceptions are forced to change, life can hold an entirely different meaning.

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Howard Spitz is dissatisfied with his lot in life. For years he has been writing unsuccessful and trashy detective novels; now his creditors, his agent, Lou, and his publishers are dissatisfied with Howard. Then he gets his big break. Howard discovers there is an audience out there for his unique writing style... and they are all under twelve years old. His trenchcoated bovine detective 'Crafty Cow' is an instant hit.





The problem is that the idea isn't all his. Ten year old Samantha is his creative partner. And she will only keep working if Howard helps her to find her long-lost father. Meanwhile, Howard realises he can't cope with the adulation and publicity his success has brought. He hires a dim-witted actor, Roger, to impersonate him as they all travel round the country promoting 'Crafty Cow'.





The search for Samantha's father continues, and Howard, who never saw himself as remotely paternal, finds himself united with Laura, Samantha's mother, in parental concern. Could it be that the heart of world weary Howard is melting to both Samantha and her mother? THE REAL HOWARD SPITZ is a heart-warming and romantic comedy about the lives of a number of absurd, funny and endearing characters.