Projects with status: Post-production

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In small-town America, a solitary man drifts through life until a group of fearless young creators crash into his world. Ray Panthaki makes his feature directorial debut with a coming-of-middle-age drama, subtly weaving themes of historical colonialism into a modern story of identity, belonging, and unexpected connection. Filmed with a poetic, observational eye, IN STARLAND captures the punk-rock chaos of youthful rebellion colliding with the quiet reckoning of a life half-lived, a tender, sometimes volatile, meditation on chosen family, cultural inheritance, and the connections that can change us in ways we never see coming.

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Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment system fails and passengers are forced to face the horror of being bored.

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After Michael is in a car accident, abandoned at the scene, and loses his job while in recovery, he starts to feel at odds with how he's spent his life. He rents a cheap basement room and tries to come to terms with the state of the world, via online bitesize information and videos. As he struggles with his narrow perception of the world, clashing with the complicated reality, he becomes fixated on an English businessman who is mismanaging a local lough.

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Delving into themes of solitude, memory, and displacement, the film is crafted through a poetic and non-linear narrative. Set between imagined geographies, it speaks a cinematic language that transcends borders. An Adaptation of Norse Mythology, the film speaks of the epic from an Indian POV.

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Fisherman Stan Rennie and his family have always fished the waters of North East England for centuries. This line to history stretched uninterrupted, until a devastating tidemark of poisoned crabs appeared one Autumn morning like a biblical plague, heralding an unprecedented poisoning of the river and the sea. Unless Stan - and others like him - can find answers, he may be the last of his kind. Told with wit, pathos and underdog tenacity by the coastal community whose own Brexit votes may have been the catalyst for disaster.

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Fisherman Stan Rennie and his family have always fished the waters of North East England for centuries. This line to history stretched uninterrupted, until a devastating tidemark of poisoned crabs appeared one Autumn morning like a biblical plague, heralding an unprecedented poisoning of the river and the sea Unless Stan - and others like him - can find answers, he may be the last of his kind. Can an unlikely alliance between a raggle-taggle group of salty fishers, elderly seal conservationist Sue and her equally elderly dog Mandy, with marine biologists be the key to survival? A richly layered story about the value of home and what happens when it is undermined by corruption, betrayal, and environmental collapse. Told with wit, pathos and underdog tenacity by the coastal community whose own Brexit votes may have been the catalyst for disaster.

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Ryan, a disinterested teenager, is coached by the ghost of William Shakespeare to land the role of Romeo in the school production, and win over his Juliet.

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Behind the walls of a juvenile detention centre, young inmates navigate friendship, identity, and personal growth while confronting harsh realities and their own paths to redemption.

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1974 - a young woman flees war-torn Cyprus to start a new life in apartheid South Africa, carrying with her a dark secret that threatens her future happiness. A story of friendship and self-discovery, of finding your place in a world fraught with violence and division.

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At the age of five, Beldina and her family moved from Kisumu, Kenya to a small town in rural Dumfriesshire, Scotland. As her sister Leah explains “One flight from Nairobi, and Bel became a black person, before she was just a person”. In the 1990s as the only black family in their community, Bel grew up being “othered and marginalised, and questioning her worth”. The effects of this racism had an immeasurable impact on Bel’s mental health and her desire to be seen and heard. In telling Bel’s story, this film exposes the experience of being Black and Scottish. Bel expressed her feelings and thoughts in her obsessive writings and songwriting. This film explores how, despite her incredible gifts, it was still almost impossible for a Black woman to break through. In the past, a diary might form the basis for a biography, however Bel left a phone full of self-shot films and heart-stopping performances. This compelling archive, plus photographs, diaries and notebooks, brings Bel to life - combined with interviews with those who knew Bel best to create an insightful picture of a darkly humoured, supremely talented, troubled but joyous Kenyan-Scottish black woman determined to be heard.

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Amongst the wind-swept desolate marshes and dense forest sits Ithaca, cloaked in mist post rainfall; a storm is coming. Once a palatial estate turned children’s home, now a high-end hotel, much like its former owners, Ithaca rots from the inside out. Though its exterior is luxurious, its rooms well appointed, and the restaurant’s menu composed of delicious, hand-foraged wild produce, the twisted secrets of Ithaca’s past form an indelible stain that cannot be exorcised. Into this eerie world steps Leda, under cover, pretending to be a ghost-writer tasked with penning the memoirs of the estate’s previous owner: Jove Livingston who has passed away. A memorial event to celebrate Jove’s life is being held, an event that will be celebrated by a lavish dinner. Leda will discover the deep and terrible secrets of Ithaca. A revenger’s tragedy, set in a Downton Abbey like world, portrayed through a hallucinogenic lens, with an almost fetishistic detail around the food, nature and wardrobe where the evil sins of the past are exposed and revenge is served up on a plate.

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An observation and comparison of two contrasting relationships experienced by the same young fella a few years apart from each other.