Funded Projects April 2022
Fulfilment
Writer Ted Wilkes, Producer Manon Ardisson
To make ends meet, aspiring novelist Abbie (30s) is forced to take a job as a ‘seasonal associate’ at a warehouse operated by the world’s biggest e-commerce brand, Sahara. But in the shadows of the night shift lurk terrifying creatures, feasting on the flesh of the workers who can’t make quota. Slowly Abbie relishes morphing into one of them…
Just In Time
Director Carol Salter
A lyrical documentary exploring how people work in opposition to or in harmony with time, and how ultimately it controls and defines us. And how saving time today might mean losing it tomorrow.
The Golden Radiance of a Beetle
Writer and director Henry Blake, Co-Writer Xiao Tang, Producers Victoria Bavister and Denzil Monk
1919. A Chinese dock worker and an English woman fall in love, but societal hatred transmogrifies her into a beetle. Cocooned from the pain, can their love transcend?
Madam Tinubu
Writer Rex Obano, Producer Jennifer Monks
2052. The world as we know it has ended. Only migrating Africans can survive the blistering heat of Britain. After the kidnap of her lover in a tribal rivalry, Madam Tinubu will do anything bring him home, even risking the safety of her people. Will her resolve survive the cruelty of this new world or will she succumb to the Nordic traffickers?