Horror. Grace and Abel’s seemingly perfect life on the North Yorkshire moors becomes swallowed by their desire to have a child. When Abel returns home with a curious living mass of flesh, skin and hair, they name it Ginger, and as this strange deformity grows, so does its demands and its capacity to destroy them.
Writer/Directors: Sophie Mair & Dan Gitsham
Producing partner: Rebecca Wolff, Grasp the Nettle Films
In Development with the BFI
Horror. The Still Man stalks the people of a small English town with a horrifying ultimatum: you stop moving, you die.
Writer: David Scullion
Director: Emily Greenwood
Producing Partner: Douglas Cox, Shadowhouse Films
A lonely saleswoman stumbles upon an unconscious man in an alley and gets him to the hospital, where he slips into a coma. When a misplaced comment from a doctor causes the victim's family to assume she’s his girlfriend, she goes along with the lie in a misguided attempt to help them and quickly finds herself welcomed into his seemingly loving family and a life she’s always dreamed of. But as the investigation into the victim's brutal attack mounts, it becomes clear that she's not the only one harbouring a secret. Based on the book of the same name by Jessica Vallance.
Director: Suzi Ewing (10X10)
Book by: Jessica Vallance
Screenplay by: David Regal
Producers, Brian Etting, Josh Etting, Garlin Pictures and Jude Goldrei, Lunar Lander Films
Broke, disillusioned graduate Sarah, desperate to get her dream job in the art world, befriends Violet, daughter of a billionaire gallery owner. Violet invites her to her hi-tech penthouse, but things take a terrifying turn as the penthouse is haunted and Violet is possessed.
Writer: Lucy Moore
Director: Laura Smith
In development with the BFI
Sci-Fi following two female scientists discovering the astonishing effects of the northern lights on IQ.
Writer/Director: Aurora Fearnley
In development with the BFI
UK/Vietnam set Action Thriller. Bao works in an East End nail bar, where she plots her revenge against the gang who trafficked her sister to the UK.
Writer: Rebecca Crookshank
Director: Ham Tran (MAIKA, HOLLOW)
Producers: Jude Goldrei, Lunar Lander Films & Anderson Le, East Films
Betrayed by her expedition crew and hunted by a polar bear, a climate researcher stranded in the Arctic must forge an unlikely alliance with the predator.
Writer/Director: Lukas Rinker
Producers: An international co-production between Neopol Film (Germany), Samsara (Austria), Rein Film (Norway), Grasp the Nettle Film (UK) and Lunar Lander Films (UK)
Sales Company: The Playmaker Munich
Romantic Comedy. Set in Birmingham’s vibrant Sparkhill, a divorced woman finds unexpected love during the Mela festival. Written by Screen International Star of Tomorrow Paven Virk.
Writer: Paven Virk
In development with the BFI
Comedy about a jaded magician who re-connects with what magic really means to him, by multi-award winning theatre, film and TV writer Nick Payne (SENSE OF AN ENDING, WANDERLUST, WE LIVE IN TIME), with BAFTA and Emmy-nominated director Alex Winckler (MY MAD FAT DIARY, THIS WAY UP, SOMEWHERE BOY).
Writer: Nick Payne
Director: Alex Winckler
In development with the BFI
Thriller. A young Cambridge graduate tutors the children of wealthy families in hope of finding the love he once had before his whole family tragically died. His dark past brings with it a destructive force.
Writer: Miles Mantle
Director: Tom Geens (COUPLE IN A HOLE)
Comedy about 30-something Frankie, who is dumped by her boyfriend in a year of weddings, hen parties, baby showers and Christenings. She gets a dog to prove to everyone she can be responsible, but she spirals out of control, untrained dog in tow, and tries to get through her mid-life crisis.
Written by and Starring: Daisy Haggard (UNCLE, EPISODES, BACK TO LIFE)
Smart Sci-Fi Comedy about a woman who rebuilds herself as an indestructible cyborg to cope with life as a single mum.
Writer: Joy Wilkinson