Cleve
A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing competition. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of one of their own sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.
Faye
Sophie and Paul (an aspiring musician) can't pay their London rent and turn to friends and family for support. Over the course of a summer, things go from bad to worse: The couple lose everything and find themselves lost in the underbelly of life on the streets. Though frustrated, their good humour and positivity land them odd jobs and a temporary shelter.
Anne
La censora de cine Enid se enorgullece de su meticuloso trabajo, protegiendo a las audiencias desprevenidas de los efectos nocivos de ver las decapitaciones llenas de sangre y las cicatrices en los ojos que examina. Su sentido del deber de proteger se ve amplificado por la culpa por su incapacidad para recordar los detalles de la desaparición de su hermana hace mucho tiempo, recientemente declarada muerta en ausencia. Cuando se le asigna a Enid la revisión de una película inquietante del archivo que se hace eco de sus nebulosos recuerdos de la infancia, comienza a desentrañar cómo este misterioso trabajo podría estar vinculado a su pasado.
Emilia 3
Emilia took our wooden ‘O’ by storm in late 2018, celebrating women’s voices the world over through the story of a trailblazing, forgotten woman, Emilia Bassano. 400 years ago, Emilia wanted her voice to be heard. In 1611 she penned the words to her ‘Vertuous Reader’ as part of a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. Yet the little we know now of Emilia is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets – and the rest of her story has been erased by history. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s acclaimed play revealed the life of Emilia: writer, wife, lover, mother, muse.
Launderette Assistant
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
Kids Mum (as Claire Perkins)
A disgruntled married man called Tom believes that there is a better life for him out there somewhere. On his way home one night he gets attacked and falls into a parallel world where he lives 6 other lives including a Rock-Star, A homeless person and the 'hoody' that attacked him. These lives help him to re-evaluate his priorities and values but in order to get home he must face some of his deepest fears and desires. Will he make it home or is the grass greener on the other side?
De Costa
Ex-con Clarkie is betrayed by his best friend, he has no one to turn to as he tracks down his brother's killers. The war spills onto London's mean streets. If Clarkie makes one false move he is...DEADMEAT.
Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.
Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local rude boy. The trouble escalates into a series of tit-for-tat incidents that threaten to spiral out of control. Ricky's 12-year-old brother Curtis, hero-worships Ricky, though he appears smart enough to know he doesn't want to follow his example. Yet, despite the stern warnings from his mother and support from her friends in the community, might Ricky's bad boy allure be too attractive for Curtis to resist?
Hortense's Sister in Law
Al morir sus padres adoptivos, Hortense, una joven negra que vive en Londres, siente la necesidad de conocer a su madre biológica, la cual la dio en adopción nada más nacer. Cuando por fin la encuentra, resulta ser una mujer soltera que trabaja en una fábrica.
Jill
Maggie tiene cuatro hijos, todos de distintos padres y que, debido al violento ambiente familiar, están a cargo de los servicios sociales británicos. Cuando Maggie conoce a Jorge, un refugiado hispanoamericano, vislumbra la posibilidad de rehacer por fin su hogar. Sin embargo, su pasado sigue atormentándola. Una vez involucrada en la burocracia de la asistencia social, le resultará muy difícil conseguir la custodia de sus hijos, pero Maggie no se da por vencida.
Opal
When Adlyn, a woman preacher at a Gospel Church in London, meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonising choice between her faith and family and her heart. Sundance 1992 (Official Selection).
Joan
On the night Danny is due to look after his daughter he is forced to do a job for a local criminal.
Helen
Amy, a sexual surrogate, is employed to help a high-security psychiatric patient overcome his intimacy issues in order to make parole. Incarcerated for 18 years, Dan must confront his dark past if he is to have any chance of freedom.
