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Runtime: x

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Email Address: x@x.com

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Any budgets available: x

Title: Damned if You Do

Synopsis: The short depicts two situations in which two people are faced with seemingly unimportant decisions to make. These very small decisions then lead them to a far more significant destination, showing us how even the smallest decision can have a great impact on future events. We begin in a warehouse where a man sits in darkness as he smokes and begins to tell his story. He is angry at life and how a small decision can have a great impact on future events. He gives us an example of a businessman going out for lunch. The businessman is faced with the simple decision of what to have to eat however takes a while to decide. His meal arrives and he seems to enjoy it. But after he has had most of the meal he begins to feel a little funny. He needs to make a visit to the toilet, he does so, sits back down and tries to eat again but can't. So realizes he has got food poisoning from this meal and tries to get home as quick as he can. As he runs outside and towards his car we begin to follow another character. This man is on the phone and has been offered a job. He thinks about it for a moment but then decides to take the job. This man however is a burglar and he has been asked to break into a house that contains a lot of jewelry. He does so, goes up the stairs and into the bedroom, he finds the jewelry and just as he thinks he is in the clear, another man enters the room. It's the businessman, he's just returning from the toilet. The burglar wins the resulting fight and flees the scene, completely forgetting about the jewelry. We go back t the warehouse and discover that the burglar and man in warehouse are the same person. When we leave the man in the warehouse, he is left deciding whether to surrender tot eh police or commit suicide. It is all seen from the view point of the man in the warehouse and is done in a slightly film noir kind of way.

Genre(s): Drama

Skills Required: Actors/Actresses Camera Operators Distribution Graphic design Music Composers Set Design/Props/Locations Sound Recordists/Technicians

Runtime: 00:12:00

Suggested dates for meetings: Filming to begin early August 08. Meetings of crew and auditions to take place late July 08.

Email Address: hardingandmurphy@yahoo.com

Phone: 07851 563458

Any known issues: Is strictly volunteer. No pay for anyone taking part, good experience and good to put on your CV.

Any budgets available: No.

Title: Sword

Synopsis: Basic telling of the sword in the stone section of the arthur legend with a few brief outlines of other events either side including a small battle in the woods. All done with a class of 10 year olds from Cashes Green school in Stroud as part of their project in conjunction with a French and an Italian school. Lighthearted and inventive. We plan to act silently with just a few clarifying lines of dialogue and put music over the whole. I have screenplay and director skills but need a camera and cameraman.

Genre(s): Drama Musical

Skills Required: Camera Operators

Runtime: 00:25:00

Suggested dates for meetings: We have to start on 21st May and finish by 8th June

Email Address: thecainabode@waitrose.com

Phone: 01453 765121

Any known issues: have to work with 10 year olds during school hours

Any budgets available: none

Title: Children's Animation

Synopsis: The project is to create a ten minute animation from James Ecendance's first children's book "Paul Espen and the Curse of the Wild Mountain. The animation will be narrated in both English and Norwegian due to Norway's main commercial station: TV2 being interested in the project. Help is needed with illustration, animation, narration and post-production. More details/website available on request.

Genre(s): Animation

Skills Required: Animation Voiceover Artists

Runtime: 00:10:00

Suggested dates for meetings: Between 16th and 20th October

Email Address: james@i2in.com

Phone: 01242 584968

Any known issues: End product must be second-to-none to maintain commercial interest

Any budgets available:

Title: Hunting Season

Synopsis: girl goes to night club with friends, stumbles out, drunk, and looks for a taxi home. gets into what she thinks is a taxi but doesn't stop to check [fade to black] next day. she wakes up in a tiny cabin in the countryside, the cabin is not even big enough for her to turn round. hands and feet tied. breaks the ties by rubbing on a protruding nail. she escapes the cabin but sets off an air raid siren in the process. realizing someone would hear the siren she runs into a near by woods. she hears cars and runs to see if its help. two men get out of the closer Land Rover, one of them pulls out a sniper rifle and aims it and the girls head. realizing this she ducks and runs for the wood. she hides in the wood and waits for the hunter to enter. she finds a rusted hunting knife in one of the trees and pockets it. sure enough the hunter enters. she waits. he walks past the tree which she is hiding behind. she sinks the knife into his neck, he falls to the floor, dead. a tear runs down her face.A gunshot is heard, she is hit in the shoulder and falls. the second hunter enters the wood. she gets to her feet and runs blindly through the woods. she reaches the edge and the setting sun warms her face, with renewed energy she runs into a corn field towards a group of houses in the distance. she falls and as she does a gun shot flies over her head. looking just above the corn she spots a hunter running towards her. the corn field is long enough for her to hide below it. she crawls on, looking up she spots a scarecrow. thinking quickly she slides into the scarecrow. the hunter runs on scanning the field. he passes the scarecrow where she is hiding. she holds her breath. angered that his prey has escaped he turns and begins to walk back to his car. she turns her head to watch his walk away as she does she brushes her cheek against the head of the scarecrow and pulls away in horror. the scarecrow is a rotting corpse! unable to contain herself she lets out a short shrill scream. the hunter turns and instinctively fires three rounds into the scarecrow. after a small pause a figure falls from the scarecrows coat. A tear gets caught halfway down the girl's cheek as, lying on the ground amongst the corn, she gazes at the beauty of clouds sailing across the red sunset sky.[end]

Genre(s): Drama

Skills Required: Equipment Hire Music Composers Producers Production Companies

Runtime: 00:10:00

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Email Address: buck_compton@hotmail.co.uk

Phone: 01285 831 536

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Title: WATERS END

Synopsis: A sentimental journey, with a hint of menace, and an unexpected ending. Set in beautiful rural Gloucestershire, Waters End starts with a steam train journey where we meet Mary who is travelling to Waters End to visit her husband's grave. On the train she meets a wealthy Lord who offers her a lift to the churchyard - could she be in danger? (Think "Tales of the Unexpected").

Genre(s): A Mystery/Ghost Story

Skills Required: Business & Legal Distribution Equipment Hire Marketing

Runtime: 00.15.10

Suggested dates for meetings: To be arranged

Email Address: flat-brokefilms@fsmail.net

Phone: 01242 238429

Any known issues:

Any budgets available: Yes

Title: Damned if you do

Genre(s): Drama

Skills Required: Actors/Actresses Camera Operators Distribution Music Composers Set Design/Props/Locations Sound Recordists/Technicians

Runtime: 00:12:00

Suggested dates for meetings: Filming to begin early August 07. Meetings of crew and auditions to take place late July 07.

Email Address: hardingandmurphy@yahoo.com

Phone: 07851 563458

Any known issues: Is strictly volunteer. No pay for anyone taking part, good experience and good to put on your CV.

Any budgets available: No.

Title: Fur Meinen Vater

Synopsis: Actors wanted for WWII feature We are looking for actors for a feature length World War 2 film being shot in the Forest Of Dean the last week in March over one week. The roles we need actors for are: four British soldiers, four German soldiers and a German Major. German accents not required. This is a micro budget film and we cannot currently offer payment, however we will provide accommodation, food, costumes and a chance to add a feature film to your CV and showreel. Below is an outline of the film: Fur Meinen Vater (For My Father) 'Ardennes, France, March 1940. Plans for the invasion of Western Europe are revised after they fall into French hands. The main focus of the offensive is changed to the Ardennes region after a suggestion by General Erich von Manstein. The bulk of the German Army's armoured units are allocated to this radical plan. A German sniper is sent to eliminate a British scout squad reporting on suspected German movements in the region. Whilst he is finding the best opportunity to strike, he thinks back to his friends, his training and his parents. As he watches the British soldiers he begins to develop a sympathy for them, whilst feeling the pressure of the threat made against his family by the dreaded brown shirts, which makes him question his own motives.' If you are interested or want more information please contact me via email: samcopland@gmail.com Sam Copland Director Macro Creative House

Genre(s): Drama

Skills Required: Actors/Actresses Distribution

Runtime: 1hr. 30 mins ish

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Email Address: samcopland@gmail.com

Phone: 01242700968

Any known issues:

Any budgets available: Very tight.

Title: The Magic Mansion

Synopsis: 1st Assistant Director Wanted (Expenses, Stroud) The Magic Mansion is a luminous, 15 minute drama that follows a naive, young location scout on a recce for a horror film. The story pays homage to Thomas Mann's similarly titled novel, The Magic Mountain, and charts the subtle development of a youthful mind, set in motion by a wise old caretaker... Please see www.davidwarwick.eu/magicmansion for further details. We are looking for a flexible, friendly, experienced and professional 1st AD for an exciting location shoot in a half built Victorian mansion in beautiful countryside. A reasonably small cast and crew. A very creative role within a very creative project, adapting to circumstances outside of our control (mainly weather!), happy to coordinate both intimate and crowd scenes, really aims to help the director and crew to work to the best of their ability but within our timeframe, limitations, etc. We are a low/no budget production so can only provide expenses but the Production Manager prides herself in looking after crew so you will be fed well and accommodated if you live outside the area. Should be a fun, happy shoot. Shoot dates are pencilled for 29th July to 1st August. Director: David Warwick see www.davidwarwick.eu Production Manager: Becky Adams see www.reelscapefilms.co.uk Please send all applications to themagicmansion at gmail.com (subject: 1st AD) and for further information please visit www.davidwarwick.eu/magicmansion .

Genre(s): Drama

Skills Required: Directors 1st Assistant Director

Runtime: 00:15:00

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Email Address: themagicmansion@gmail.com

Phone: 07930 646721

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Any budgets available: Expenses

Title: Fair is foul, foul is fair

Synopsis: Based on the characters of the three witches in Macbeth, this short film deals with theatrical superstitions and the curse of the Scottish Play. Action switches between scenes of incantations from the play and three actresses rehearsing the parts in a theatre. As the spells are recited the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred. Our cast and crew are complete. But we are having trouble finding locations. We need a theatre and also a basic, old looking, shelter for the scenes with the witches, caves, ruins, a crypt, that sort of thing. If anyone could help us with this it would be a massive help! We cannot offer payment, which is creating a large hurdle.

Genre(s): Drama

Skills Required: Set Design/Props/Locations

Runtime: 00:10:00

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Email Address: info@montpellierfilms.co.uk

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Title: Before I Die

Synopsis: This short film is around a group of friend who get together annually and chat about the irrelevant issues surrounding them. Over a quiet pint it is discovered that Al is terminally ill, but beofre he snuffs it, he wants to carry out one final act of ludicrous insanity, something that will be daring and shock passers by. This project has already recieved excellent interest by none other than Carol Decker and full permission has been granted to use a specific track of hers for the end sequence and credits.

Genre(s): Comedy Drama

Skills Required: Actors/Actresses Camera Operators Distribution Marketing Music Composers Photographers Producers Set Design/Props/Locations Sound Recordists/Technicians

Runtime: 15-20 minutes apx

Suggested dates for meetings: to be arranged

Email Address: celticstormfilms@live.com

Phone: 07847 262468

Any known issues: looking for crew, preferably with own equipment and looking to just add to a growing track record on a professioinal film production.

Any budgets available: No budget set, so initially looking for voluntary collaborations with other like minded film makers at a professional level.