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A one-night-stand introduces frustrated author AMELIA to her paramour STEPHANIE’s latest computer engineering project - an AI algorithm that AMELIA could use to complete her novel. Two years later, an unexpected accusation of plagiarism is levelled at AMELIA on the eve of the novel’s publication. AMELIA must choose between revealing the novel’s true genesis or fighting to retain the critical and commercial success it is sure to deliver.

Written and directed by James Brown.

Produced by Nicky Bentham of Neon Films.

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A film based on the life of Dame Evelyn Glennie. As a child in rural Scotland she was a piano prodigy, but went deaf at age 8. Her music teacher introduced her to percussion, encouraging her to ‘feel’ music rather than ‘listen’ to it. Against all the odds, Evelyn went on to become the world’s first professional solo percussionist, changing the classical music landscape forever.

Screenplay by James Pearson.

Director Hope Dickson Leach.

A co-production with Neon Films, in collaboration with FreibeuterFilm.

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Early 1800’s New Zealand. The European whaling community of Babylon is put upon by a Maori warriors, Mata, who arrives in town to reclaim a cultural artefact that has been stolen from her tribe - the shrunken head of her father. She discovers that the artefact is in the possession of a woman - the villainess Sarah Graham. Sarah is the unofficial mayoress of Babylon, with control over every aspect of the town from its grocer to its brewer to its brothel. When she learns that only Sarah knows the location of her father’s head, Mata must insinuate herself into the community of Babylon in order to secure the head’s return before it is shipped to London to be sold on the black market. 

Written and to be directed by Glenn Standring.

A co-production with Jill Macnab and Tainui Stephens.

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Joe O’Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighbourhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganised thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his family’s lives forever: Huntington’s disease.

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After a young school girl, Khalilah Doumbia, is captured and sold off as a child bride, she must use her wits and skills to escape her captors if she ever wants to see her family again. Meanwhile her father, Boubakah, embarks on a treacherous journey to try and save her.

Winner of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, 2016.

Written and to be Directed by Vigil Chime.

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Skye’s sixteen, and her mum’s got yet another new boyfriend. Trouble is, Jason’s bad news. Really bad. Now Mum’s quit her job and they’re all moving north to Port Flinders, population nobody.

Written and directed by Renee Mao.

Co-producer Robyn Kershaw.

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In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.

An 8-part TV series written and directed by Karen Moncrieff.

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In the 1830s, Winnifred ‘Freddie’ Sheridan finds herself convicted to serve a sentence at the ‘Cascades Female Factory’ in Tasmania. There she meets the charismatic Ellen Scott, a female convict who has created a joyful counter-culture within the misery of 'The Cascades' - a rebel faction known as the ‘Flash Mob’. Together, the two women will grow the ‘Flash Mob’ from an underground movement into a prison-wide feminist phenomenon that could threaten the very existence of ‘The Cascades’.

Written by IR Bell-Webb.

Directed by Isabelle Sieb.

Co-producer Robyn Kershaw.

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On the eve of her 55th birthday, Elaine realises that she is becoming invisible to her husband, her family, and her town. So she decides to take a radical step to be seen: she takes her clothes off, and she does not put them back on.

Written and directed by Aemilia Scott.

Co-producer Holli Hopkins-McGinley.