WARRIOR
Feature Film
Synopsis
Japan. 2025. In the foothills of Mount Fuji, a Buddhist temple stands.
The Sensei of the temple is the most respected and feared man in the
country. A spiritual leader without official political power, a
mythical legend as the undefeatable warrior.
With constant threats on his life, Sensei continues to preach the Art
of Peace and teaches trainee monks the martial art Aikido. As he
performs the sacred tea ceremony, he talks of the dawn of a new
civilisation, medicine for a sick world, resolution of conflict without
the drawing of swords. The country who leads this dawn will be the
greatest super power on the planet. In the wrong hands it will lead to
the ultimate destruction.
The temple, though poor in means, supports a nearby orphanage. As part
of their daily chores the children clean the temple, one young girl’s
strength captures Sensei’s attention. To ensure the proper coming of
the new dawn he needs a protege. She, furious, brilliant needs a
father.
Her training begins. It’s fraught, patience and endurance tested for
both Sensei and the young girl. Time passes. On the eve of her first
national martial arts competition, her introduction to the world, she
goes to Sensei’s quarters and finds his lifeless body.
The young Warrior girl turns and runs out of the temple, the only home
she has known, taking nothing except his Samurai sword.
Alone in the natural world, she remembers a fairytale Sensei told her
many years before, a quest that if completed successfully, can bring
back the dead. That is her path now. She travels through Japan, tasks
etched out in the rocks, the forests, the rivers. Hidden messages guide
her but she is hunted. With Sensei gone, she is believed to be the only
one who owns the secret to the new dawn, though she herself does not
yet know it.
Her quest takes her through the four seasons. A lifetime lived in a
year. Despite the attempts on her life she remains focused her goal to
complete the quest and bring him back. Each step her grief wraps itself
tighter and tighter around her.
Do you believe in the magic of fairytales? As one dreams vanishes so
another appears. Her true path reveals itself now, what’s gone is gone
but the legacy remains.
The future is coming.
The new dawn of civilisation.
But in who’s hands?
BOND 007: BLACK VELVET GOLD
Feature Film
Synopsis
BOND goes rogue to overthrow the
puppet masters behind the world's most powerful governments.
Top
secret file, script available to Bond Executives only!
BURLESQUE FAIRYTALES
Feature Film
Synopsis
“Welcome to Burlesque Fairytales, a night of revelation at Wilton’s
Theatre.”
At least that’s what it says on the flyer. But this 1930’s fashionable
london audience are in for a surprise. Things are not what they seem at Wilton’s
and slowly it dawns on them that this is indeed no ordinary night at the theatre.
The audience can not remember how they got there, now that they’ve arrived,
the doors to the theatre are bolted shut. They are trapped inside.
Henry Clark is the first to notice something’s going on. He is with his
three children, wondering why his wife hasn’t arrived yet. He doesn’t
yet know that they will not see each other again. His boss is also at the theatre
tonight. Mr Blythe-Smith, many years Henry’s senior, holds himself like
a gentleman but soon reveals his true nature; a short sighted, arrogant man.
He assumes authority over all things, including his beautiful wife Annabel.
He has no idea that she will leave him tonight.
Annabel’s sister Grace is embracing new liberations for women after the
Great War. She threatens Blythe-Smith and enjoys it, but secretly she fears
him. His behaviour with her during the half time performance interval reveals
she has every reason to.
Grace catches the eye of brash American Jimmy Harrison. Despite his fun loving
appearance, Jimmy in fact guides all the characters towards their revelations.
He is a stranger that people can trust and tell their secrets too, even the
tight lipped woman in mourning, Mrs Argyle.
As the film progresses in real time, the stage play hosts five Burlesque fairytales.
In these tales a mixture of stage, film, animation, giant set pieces and the
elements playing out inside in theatre create a fantastical story telling experience.
At the heart of each tale is an important message for the audience members.
This is personal. The Compere of the show acts as both guide and tormentor.
By the fourth fairytale, the action has become dangerous with two of Henry’s
children actually being integrated into the film world of the fairytales. The
audience convinced that sorcery is at play, are too frightened to make a stand.
Henry understands a far greater power is at work than simply a magician’s
tricks.
Blithe-Smith, guided by ignorance, demands answers. He discovers much too late
that he has finally met his match. At the moment of truth, he fails to be enlightened
and so is cast into a hellish reality; an eternity alone.
LA MADRINA
Feature Film
The Treatment
'LA MADRINA' IS THE ADAPTATION OF THE TRUE LIFE STORY
OF ONE WOMAN WHO BECAME AN ITALIAN MAFIA BOSS, LA MADRINA – THE GODMOTHER.
Meet Maria. She's a good Italian wife. She knows what her brother does
for a living, she knows her husband is involved. She keeps her mouth shut and
sends her sons away to study abroad in the hope that they stay away from trouble.
That is, until the police come.
She's afraid and goes to her sister Rosetta. Rosetta enjoys the kudos and the
money that being part of the Guimaro family brings her. She has a weakness for
high profile affairs. She tells her sister:
"YOU'RE TALKING CRAZY MARIA. PEOPLE KNOW WHO YOU ARE, DON'T BE
SCARED. WE HIDE BEHIND OUR MEN, THIS IS HOW IT WORKS."
"AND WHEN OUR MEN ARE GONE ROSETTA, WHAT THEN?"
Backed into a dangerous corner, Maria must make a decision, to disappear quietly,
or to come our fighting. It's terrifying to see what a mother will do to protect
her family and that possibly, she might come to enjoy it.
But Maria’s not the only woman taking charge. Signora Lo Russo, also known
as Grandma Heroin ran three generations of drug dealing under her roof and when
the police finally caught her, she was on a drug run, she was 67 years old.
LA MADRINA charts the 15 years from the MAXI trials in the eighties in which
over 400 mafia men were locked up leaving the path open for their female counterparts,
right up to Maria's real life arrest just 2 years ago.
The script dives like an American thriller but has the passion and sentiment
of European cinema. Perhaps the most frightening of all, is that it's all true.
IMOGEN
Synopsis
Feature Film
Imogen – A STORY OF GRIEF, LOSS AND LOVE
“Missing word: A woman who outlives her husband is a widow, a
man without a wife a widower, a child without parents an orphan. But what do
you call the father and mother of a child who has died?”
Set in modern day Britain, Leo’s working on a building site, dreaming
of going to art school, when he meets Michela, a feisty Spaniard working her
way round Europe playing guitar in bars.
“That’s it. That’s the moment. That’s when I
first met your mother,” Leo tells the small figure playing with
his keys in the darkness. She looks like a little girl, only when she turns
to camera is it revealed that he’s talking to a life size puppet doll.
A mixed match, Leo and Michela fall in love and struggle to find common ground
between the expressive Mediterranean culture and the quieter British temperament.
But in striving to make their relationship work, they find more in common than
first thought. Both dreamers, they enjoy happiness in their first home, a run
down london studio flat.
Michela falls pregnant, Leo becomes a father. Imogen comes into the world. Imogen
dies. In a desperate attempt to avoid facing up to her death Leo retreats into
an imagined fantasy in which he still talks with his daughter, returned to him
in a frighteningly realistic puppet doll.
What begins as a comforting dream becomes a nightmarish reality as Leo retreats
further from the real world into this dark, misguided alternative reality.
Told out of sequence, this film reveals the love story of Leo and Michela, their
tragic loss, the destruction of their love by grief and their love’s final
salvation.
HUNTED
Synopsis
Feature Film
“Kidnap Show Girl to stand trial in the US” (taken from
The Times Newspaper Sept 2004)
A FORMER Las Vegas showgirl who spent 15 years on the run with her son
after accusing the father of child abuse is to be extradited to the United States
on charges of parental kidnapping. She now faces up to six years in jail. The
extradition order was approved by Jack Straw and upheld by David Blunkett.
Sounds like an open and shut case. That’s what this reputable newspaper
report would have you belief. What if I told you this was all lies?
I’d like you to meet Michelle. She’s a dance teacher at an expensive
country club in the west of England. A far cry from the bright lights and seedy
punters of Vegas, her ‘clients’ are middle aged women looking to
keep trim for society dinners. 15 years ago she packed a suitcase, left behind
a lucrative business, a blossoming career and went on the run with her three
year old son.
She’s been on run ever since. Cut off from her family. Phone calls in
the middle of night “Michelle they know where you are, go,” and
the less friendly, “It’s the FBI, we’re coming for you.”
Desperation, Poverty, Loneliness. This has been Michele’s living nightmare.
Let’s clear some things up. Michele has never been a ‘table-dancer.’
She was a happily married young woman with a little boy living well off the
proceeds of a lighting company based in Vegas. That was until she walked in
on her husband abusing their son.
Michele went to court. The judge ruled that she would be the main carer for
the children but that her husband would have access of the weekends. Her husband’s
lawyer and the judge were golfing buddies. Michelle panicked. She could have
stayed, remained financially well taken care of, continuing her choreography
career all at the cost of pretending she saw nothing. Instead, Michele ran.
She’s been running ever since. Her son’s grown up in her care. Now
the FBI wants to see her locked up. That’s what they told her. That’s
what she was facing just six months ago.
Do you believe in miracles? Or maybe just a bitter sweet dose of karma. After
being actively pursued by American authorities for the past 15 years, she received
one last call from them. Her file has been accidentally destroyed, the case
against her dropped, she is a free woman.
In one month, Michele will return to the country that hunted her for so long.
Her daughter’s had three children Michele has never seen, it’s time
to go home but as she walks through customs she’ll be shaking, remembering
the past 15 years. This is where her story begins.
INSIDE EVE
Feature Film
Synopsis
SEXY, SMART, EROTIC DRAMA – ONE WEEKEND IN THE LIFE OF A MODERN
COUPLE PUSHING THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO EXTREMES – Inside Eve
Jonathon Miller has everything a man could want; high flying executive job in
the city, a beautiful, devoted and pregnant fiancé, they’re making
big plans for the future. In the opening scene of Inside Eve, Jonathon Miller,
finishing up in his office for the weekend, commits suicide.
Nick was the last person to speak to him. He returns home that night his mind
filled with questions; why did Jonathon jump, he was living the dream so why
wasn’t he happy and was there anything I could have done to save him?
Evey’s soaking in the bath after a long week. She’s in tears. Somewhere
in all the striving to establish a successful career as a freelance photographer
life has become routine. Isn’t there more to it than a good job, climbing
the property ladder, saving for the future? She’s beginning to question
her long term relationship too...and she might be pregnant.
INSIDE EVE looks at one weekend in the lives of a modern couple, Evey and Nick.
With the pressures of ever increasing work hours, striving for their careers
and temptation round every corner, can honest love survive in this urban setting?
Friend Kat warns; “push anything far enough Evey and it will break.”
By opening up their relationship to questioning and heading into the sub culture
underground of the fetish scene Nick and Evey have some tough truths to face.
But as they discover, sometimes things have to be pushed to breaking point to
prove that they’re strong enough to survive.
Inside Eve puts the audience in the heart of this relationship. It’s honest,
explicit and the scenes will be written to run longer than traditional dramas.
Above all, it cannot feel contrived, sculpted, cut and paste viewing. If the
sexual scenes are to be woven into the story naturally, it can’t be played
sensationally, it must feel real, honest, recognisable. Whilst Nick and Evey
push their relationship further than many of us would in the real world, this
fictional reality must feel within reach of modern, urban relationships today.
In one woman’s story is all women. Common experiences and emotions reveal
universal truths about the sexual side to our nature often talked about but
rarely truly heard. This is your chance to listen…Your chance to be Inside
Eve.