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A family drama, coming-of-age story, set against the backdrop of the Algerian War of Independence. A boy must choose between his collaborationist father, a brutal French Army captain, his Muslim mother and a nation torn apart by conflict and clamoring for independence. Only then he can carve out his own identity and forge his own destiny. Based on the novel ‘The Powder Monkey of Algiers’ by Dan Douglass.
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THE POWDER MONKEY OF ALGIERS
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A 60’s period heist drama series set in and around a London East End greyhound stadium. Two Romford businessmen, exploiting a gambling loophole and looking to settle their debts, are lured by the prospect of a multi-million win on a single race. Leaned on by the American mafia, they set about planning an elaborate high stakes sting to pull off the greatest betting coup of the century while outsmarting the authorities and staying out of jail. Based on a true story.
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How far does the human condition allow for the call of conscience in the settling of old scores? This darkly comedic road trip, spanning generations, continents and worldviews explores the twists and turns of a long held vendetta in which a stolen masterpiece changes the lives and fortunes of its octogenarian protagonists — a gangster and a bent barrister — and others who come into contact with it. An elaborate hit, fifty years in the making, plays out under the guise of an anniversary celebration. Based on the novel ‘The Road to Tarascon’ by Dan Douglass.
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THE ROAD TO TARASCON
A spirited love story for the holiday season set among the destitute of Los Angeles. A hapless screenwriter, down on his luck with one last tilt at glory, touts a hopelessly misguided script around Hollywood. Still reeling from the sting of rejection and feeling sorry for himself, he accidentally stumbles across the raw truth about the issue he’s set out to dramatize, experiences an epiphany and manages to perform a modern day miracle — with the help of the homeless community and one amazing woman.
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SANTA MONICA
A near-space sci-fi psychodramatic thriller based on recent historical events transposed to a parallel universe. A manned moonshot mission suffers a catastrophic failure when the lunar module fails to lift off the surface of the moon, leaving the orbiting command module pilot with no choice but to abandon his fellow crew-members to their fate. Dogged by suspicions of Cold War sabotage, hunted by the intelligence services, shunned by his fellow citizens and pursued by his own demons, the eponymous nearly man faces an uncertain future on the most hostile planet of them all — his own. Based on the novel ‘The Nearly Man’ by Dan Douglass.
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THE NEARLY MAN
An irreverent story about the pursuit of immortality in a town where up is down and down is up, and a wide variety of characters find themselves driven by the lure of life eternal. Normal, Illinois, a nuclear bunker, a beauty salon and a disused steelworks are the unlikely backdrop for events that are anything but normal in this darkly comedic drama. Based on the novel ‘Uptown Normal’ by Dan Douglass.
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UPTOWN NORMAL
