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Drama Thriller
A regional broadcast talent show becomes a live national event after being hijacked by extremists. Local sheriff Ben Bayles is thrust into the spotlight to try and diffuse the explosive situation between the hijackers, media and government forces.
Based on the novel by Raymond Thompson & John Briley
Screenplay by Raymond Thompson
THE CUTTING ROOM
Horror
A group of twenty-something's are trapped in a deserted film studio only to be hunted by a killer and strange entities, becoming the unwitting stars in their own horror movie complete with shocks, screams and stereotypes. But the clichés are re-written, the rules are broken, who will make the cut?
Written by Stephen Clarke
SIDESHOW
Neo-Noir Thriller
1956. Gibtown, Florida. Where the Carnies and freaks live and hibernate when not on the circuit, and someone is killing them. Rookie African-American cop Lomax is sent to investigate and along with his strange new partner is thrown into a macabre world where no-one is who they seem.
Written by Stephen Clarke
THE COWBOY AND THE DANCER
Drama
Lance, who was born Shaun, has an intellectual disability but also a photographic mind. Unable to hold down a job, country music is his lifeline, often speaking in lyrics and using them to shape his life. All makes perfect sense to Shaun, as he leaves his hometown for the bright lights of the big city. Inspired by the lyrics of Dolly Parton, he is now the Cowboy looking for his Dancer.
Original screenplay by Raymond Thompson
JEDIAH WEEKES AT WAR
Period Action Adventure
African-American rancher Jediah Weekes has survived the Civil War, only to come home to another kind of war. His cattle are dying, his land wanted by others. He must take drastic action to survive. Travelling to India to bring home two Brahman bulls to revive his stock and save his land. Along with his two cowhands, their adventure takes us from the Wild West, to the even wilder East.
Screenplay by Stephen Clarke
KIN
Drama Thriller
1982. Rosa and Paco’s 20 year old daughter is murdered in the city. Paco leaves their farm to bring her body home, himself never to return. Now all alone, Rosa must go to bring her kin home. But she’s nobody’s victim. She wants justice and will stop at nothing to get it.
Original screenplay by Roy Clarke
JERUSALEM
Controversial Religious Drama
The story that inspired the famous Poem and Anthem. The missing years of Boy Jesus. He is spirited away by Joseph of Arimathea to the safety of Britain where he grows to become the man the world knows.
Screenplay by Andrew Rajan
A LITTLE RETRIBUTION
Contemporary Crime Drama
Jack 'Woody' Woods, An African American diabetic cop being forced to retire early. His immediate family are suddenly murdered by a major drug dealer who flees the country. Now retired, Woody follows him to the Caribbean to take his revenge.
Written by Stephen Clarke
LIGHTS OUT
Contemporary Crime Caper
Career criminal Eddie Burton and eco-warrior girlfriend Chloris are forced to commit two extraordinary robberies or die trying.
Written by Stephen Clarke
EASTERN PROMISE
Contemporary Crime Drama
Dubai, playground of the rich and famous. An unlikely hero partnership of an American Interpol agent and an Emirati detective take on an Indian gang who are perpetrating a violent gun / drug smuggling ring.
Written by Stephen Clarke
THE WORDS
Psychological Thriller
FBI investigator Ferluci is an expert in the occult. He should be. If he hadn't suffered from short term memory loss every day, he would remember why.
Screenplay by Stephen Clarke
MAXIMUM INSECURITY
Psychological Horror
A group of American college friends are exploring the highlands of Scotland, tracing their Scottish ancestry and unearthing a disturbing force that sets a gruesome chain of events in motion.
Screenplay by Roy Clarke
SLEUTH HOUNDS
Period Action Adventure
Victorian England. Charlotte Holmes and Emily Watson, daughters of the famous crime solving duo, take on a very dangerous supernatural case of their own.
Screenplay by Stephen Clarke
HUNTING GROUND
Period Action Adventure
1885. Pinkerton Agent Flowers with Indian agent Trunk follow an English aristocratic murderer Lord Bancroft all the way from their wild west frontier lands of Dakota to London’s wild urban streets to bring him to justice.
Screenplay by Stephen Clarke
SNAGS
Comedy Drama
The unlikely romance between two totally incompatible individuals who meet while both trying to commit suicide off the same pier in California.
Screenplay by Roy Clarke
FOR THE FALLEN
Drama
Six retired war veterans reassemble on their home territory to do battle against an enemy who has crossed the line and is threatening their families.
Written by Roy Clarke
GAME ON
Sports Drama
Trish Eastward was married into the male dominated world of darts and herself had been a good amateur player. After being dumped by her husband, she decides to go professional and take the men on at their own game.
Written by Michael Gyngell