1595
Synopsis:  

Based on a true story about the last full invasion of England by the Spanish in Cornwall.  An assorted collection of characters are forced together in order to defend themselves from the invading force.

7 DAYS
Synopsis:  

Based on the fictionalised story of a prison inmate and his relationship with his wife and four children.

The film will combine documentary and fiction and will be shot over a 5-year period, to enable Winterbottom to explore the changing dynamics of a prisoner's relationships. It will be mostly shot within a working prison.

A MAN'S STORY
Synopsis:   A fly-on-the-wall journey of ten years in the life, loves and work of fashion icon Ozwald Boateng.
Director:   Varon Bonicos
Producer:   Wellington Films
Enquiries:   Wellington Films
Broadway Media Centre
14-18 Broad Street
Nottingham NG1 3AL
England

T +44 (0) 115 840 0043

aclark@wellingtonfilms.co.uk
Status:   Post-production
Record last updated:   Jan 21, 2010

A TASTE OF BLOOD
Synopsis:  

A contemporary vampire film...

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Synopsis:  

Based upon the Oscar Wilde play - a young man discovers his future employer is actually his father and a despicable character.

ARTHROPODA
Director:   Kelly Anne Mullaney
Producer:   Kris R Bird
Screenwriter:   Kelly Anne Mullaney, Kris R Bird
Enquiries:   arthropoda@mothcatcher.co.uk
Status:   In Pre-production
Record last updated:   Jan 26, 2010

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS
Synopsis:  

Production has started on Aardman's highly ambitious computer-animated feature film, Arthur Christmas. Set on Christmas night, the story at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation revealed by the movie is on a massive scale that requires the creation of a huge CGI world. But the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic a family at seasonal loggerheads and an unlikely hero with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns. Aardman is working closely with Sony Pictures Imageworks on the animation for this CGI motion picture.

BLACK DEATH
Synopsis:  

The most terrifying thing about Osmund's nightmare is that it's real.

BORN OF WAR
Synopsis:  

Born of War opens against the backdrop of the Soviet Afghan conflict of 1979. A young female red cross worker has an affair with a Mujahadeen leader. She becomes pregnant and flees Afghanistan to return home to Britain where she can hide the child. Twenty years later a young woman, who has no idea of her real identity, enters Oxford University. She is immediately recruited by MI6 and believes she has an illustrious career in front of her. Instead the MI6 are using her as a pawn in their game. Her father has discovered he has a daughter and he wants her back. This young woman must run from both her government and her father to discover who she really is.

BREATHE
Synopsis:  

Carroll Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambitions and desires. After endless parties, too many dead end jobs and family arguments Bailey becomes self destructive - resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love.

After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise. Things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are otehrs who will stop at nothing to make Bailey's life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug fuelled parties Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.

CARMEN'S KISS
Synopsis:   A contemporary adaptation of Bizet's world famous opera, Carmen. Carmen's Kiss is a romantic thriller set in the East European underworld in London.
Director:   David Fairman
Producer:   David Fairman, Jon Morrey, Niall Stewart, Francoise Gouliardon
Screenwriter:   David Fairman, Niall Stewart
Cast:   Hugo Speer, Vivienne Harvey, Bruce Payne, Martin Kove
Enquiries:   Albion Films
27a Cobble Lane
London N1 1SF
England

T +44 (0) 20 7288 2464
F +44 (0) 20 7159 1525
Status:   Completed
Record last updated:   Jan 26, 2010
(completed)

CENTURION
Synopsis:  

AD 117. The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black Sea. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying tribesmen known as the Picts.

Marcus Dias, sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Titus Virilus’ legendary 9th legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the earth and destroy their leader Gorlacon.

But when the legion is ambushed on unfamiliar ground, and Virilus taken captive, Marcus faces a desperate struggle to keep his small platoon alive behind enemy lines, evading remorseless Pict pursuers over harsh terrain, as the band of soldiers race to rescue their General, and to reach the safety of the Roman frontier.

CHARLIE
Synopsis:   Southern Italy, 1943. An on the run Allied prisoner of war - Charlie - encounters Marco, the teenage son of an executed partisan leader, out for revenge. Charlie wants nothing to do with Marco or the group of children who soon join them at an abandoned partisan hideout. As a German commander ruthlessly sweeps the valley searching for him, Charlie finds he has to rely on the help of the children to survive until Marco discovers Charlies secret, one that could tear their friendship apart.
Director:   Mike Ogden
Producer:   Andrea Borella
Screenwriter:   Mike Ogden
Cast:   Lara Fabian, Richard Armitage
Enquiries:   Charlie Film UK Ltd
Status:   In Pre-production
Record last updated:   Jan 26, 2010

CHERRY TREE LANE
Synopsis:   A couple are terrorised by a gang hunting their son.
Director:   Paul Andrew Williams
Producer:   Ken Marshall
Screenwriter:   Paul Andrew Williams
Cast:   Rachel Blake, Tom Butcher
Sales agent:   The Salt Company
Enquiries:   The Salt Company
3rd Floor
1a Adpar Street
London W2 1DE
England

T +44 (0)20 7535 6714

info@salt-co.com

www.salt-co.com
Status:   Post-production
Record last updated:   Jan 26, 2010

COMEDOWN
Synopsis:  

An urban horror set against a contemporary London backdrop of abandonment and decay. Six tearaway teenagers setting up a relay aerial for a local pirate radio station at the top of a condemned tower block, are targeted by a resident psychopath intent on exterminating the 'vermin' he perceives are besieging his home.

CORIOLANUS
Synopsis:   A contemporary version of Shakespeare's dangerous political thriller.

The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views ignite a mass riot. Rome is bloody.

Manipulated and out-manoeuvred by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, Coriolanus is banished from Rome. He offers his life or his services to his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius. Coriolanus and Aufidius march on Rome intending to destroy the city. Volumnia appeals to her son. He tries to reject her but eventually breaks. Aufidius, feeling bitterly betrayed, brutally murders Coriolanus.

DANCE OF THE GOBLINS
Synopsis:  

In a post-apocalyptic London, humans carve out a medieval-like existence in the rubble of a ruined city. Meanwhile, the goblins have come up from the deep places and taken over the old underground stations, staying out of sight of the humans. A chance sighting leads the humans to invade the goblin tunnels and start the first conflict with goblins in over 800 years. What would you do, to protect your world?

EATING DUST
Director:   Jade Carmen
Producer:   Jinx Films, Louis Paltnoi
Screenwriter:   Jade Carmen, Louis Paltnoi,
Cast:   Charles Dance, Jimi Mistry, Joanne Whalley, Nicki Pedersen, Paul Kaye, Joseph Beattie, Clive Standen
Enquiries:   Jinx Films
info@eatingdust.com
Status:   In Post-Production
Record last updated:   Jan 21, 2010

EGRESSION
Synopsis:   Three people meet and become friends in London. Two of them form a relationship in turns loving and destructive. The death of one of them forces the others to reassess their lives and change or die. The main themes of 'Egression' are escape and redemption. All the characters are trying by some means or another to escape from aspects of their pasts. Whether it's by drinking, taking drugs, gambling, casual sex. What begins as fun distractions in youth leads to lives of self abuse and addiction. With forms of therapy frowned upon by the strata of society composing the piece and families distant or uncaring, the characters have no recourse but each other. After the lead female character takes her own life, the others are left with the repercussions; blame, guilt, self-doubt. Thoughts of the futility of their own existence. Deciding to simply keep on living is the nearest to redemption these character allow themselves or are perhaps even capable of.
Director:   Ray Brady
Producer:   Ray Brady, Owen Morgan
Screenwriter:   Des Backhouse-Brady
Cast:   Des Backhouse-Brady, Angela Spalding, Andrew Shire, Ray Brady
Enquiries:   T +44 (0)20 8257 1478

www.egression.co.uk
Status:   Post-production
Record last updated:   Jan 21, 2010

ELFIE HOPKINS AND THE GAMMONS
Synopsis:  

An aspiring teen detective investigates the mysterious new family in her neighbourhood.

ELOISE IN PARIS
Synopsis:  

ELOISE...rambunctious, precocious, adventurous and "rawther" stupendous. But underneath the white blouse and black pinafore, beats a sweet little heart with plenty of soul. Eloise lives in a suite at New York's legendary Plaza Hotel with her beloved Nanny. An eternal optimist, Eloise tries to think more about the mischief she can make, rather than the fact that her high-powered Mother is absent so much of the time. So, the night her Mom calls to announce they're going to celebrate Eloise's birthday in Paris, during Fashion Week, Eloise and Nanny can't pack fast enough. What's ahead is romance, adventure and intrigue... Watch out Paris!

EROTOLOGY
Synopsis:   A poetic love story that follows Manchester and Noon as they enjoy a long, hot, summer romance. Noon is our narrator, a shy taxidermist who keeps a silent menagerie in the freezer alongside Manchester’s ice pops. Manchester documents their affair, creating wonderfully charged images with just a couple of cheap, instamatic cameras. When a wealthy pornographer launches his photography on the art world, Manchester’s success destroys the beauty of their once idyllic life.
Director:   Ashley Horner
Producer:   Karl Liegis, Ashley Horner
Screenwriter:   Sean Conway
Cast:   Liam Browne, Nancy Trotter-Landry, Michael Hodgson, Stephen Bent
Enquiries:   Pinball Films

T+ 44(0)191 221 1626

info@pinballfilms.com

www.pinballfilms.com
Status:   Post-Production
Record last updated:   Jan 26, 2010

FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Synopsis:  

Incarcerated for fifteen years, Frank is finally released, but his world has changed! No longer his deposed old boss Marco's 'right-hand man', he is forgotten and destitute! His dream for a peaceful life becomes a nightmare when old friends are murdered! He must once-again rise through the ranks, somehow make his fortune and take his revenge against the Russian Mafia now running his manor!

FENCE, THE (UK/US/HUN)
Synopsis:  

In 1992 62-year-old Herman Rosenblat was shot and seriously wounded during a robbery on his Brooklyn business. As Herman lay semi-conscious on the operating table his mother (killed in Treblinka) came to him in a vision and urged him to open his mind and his heart to his past and to finally tell the amazing story of his life.

The Fence tells the true story of Herman Rosenblat - how he and his brothers stayed together ansd survived the Holocaust and how a young boy's faith is restoed by a girl's love.

FOXGLOVE
Synopsis:  

Set on the outskirts of London, Foxglove is a tense psychological drama of two destructive urban teenagers (Jordan and Liam) on the run, who become imprisoned by a bitter and brutal farmer who decides to dish out his own justice.

While they initially endeavour to escape, Jordan, burdened with the guilt of a dark secret in her past, begins to develop a connection with the farmer and his world, creating an ever increasing tension between her and the jealous Liam.

GALAHAD
Synopsis:  

A coming-of-age take on Sir Galahad's quest for the Holy Grail.

GRAVEYARD SHIFT: A ZOMEDY OF TERRORS
Synopsis:  

The graveyard shift holds many horrors, not least of all the zombies that nightly wander into the 24 hour convenience shop where Keith, an ordinary working lad, summarily despatches one or two per shift between serving the living customers who are oblivious to the deadly threat that walks among the invisible downtrodden of the streets.

One night, while Keith is flirting with a young woman customer called Suzi, a zombie gets close enough to the girl to try to bite her. This puts into motion a series of events that will lead to a turbulent adventure across the city through hoards of zombies and an encounter with an ancient priest-magician who has been mistakenly invoked from the grave as a zombie.

Meanwhile, a renegade priest performs dark rituals to raise the zombies for his own nefarious purposes. As the priest gathers his minions, the Dark Lord roams the city in search of one who can complete his ancient spell.

Assuming that the Dark Lord is after Suzi, Keith vows to protect her with his life. Suzi is torn between Keith’s devotion and her unnatural attraction to the Dark Lord. A final showdown between the Dark Lord and Keith will determine the fate of Suzi, the city, and perhaps even the world.

GRIDIRON UK
Synopsis:   Based on a true story in 1985. Derek is a dreamer and a loser.  No matter how hard he tries he fails at everything he attempts. Determined to show the world he can succeed at something he forms an American Football team in a country dominated by Soccer, Rugby, Cricket and Fish & Chips. His desire to succeed consumes his life and he is blind to see that his success will lead to him losing everything.
Director:   Ed Bye
Producer:   Gary Delaney, Gareth Jones, David Soul
Screenwriter:   Gary Delaney
Cast:   Keith David, Stephen Marcus, Paul Nicholas, Helen Lederer, Russell Floyd, Michael Dixon
Enquiries:   Brushy Creek Films Ltd
www.brushycreekfilms.com
brushycreekfilms@hotmail.co.uk
Status:   In pre-production
Record last updated:   Mar 3, 2010

HEAVEN AND EARTH (AKA BARRY)
Synopsis:   Remarkable true story of James Miranda Barry, the first woman doctor, who had to masquerade as a man.
Director:   Marleen Gorris
Producer:   Malcolm Kohll, David Pupkewitz
Screenwriter:   Malcolm Kohll, Marsha Levin
Cast:   Sean Pertwee, Miranda Raison, Janet Suzman
Sales agent:   Cinema Management Group
Enquiries:   Malcolm Kohll +44 (0)207 435 9004
Status:   In production
Record last updated:   Jan 26, 2010

HELPIN MELWYN
Synopsis:  

A group of female cornish pasty workers try to save their factory from closure.