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Works

Crow
completed
Crow is protector of the wood. He has lived there ever since the Crow tribe of travellers were brutally moved on from the farmstead nearby by ruthless developer, Tucker. Now Tucker wants the wood too and will stop at nothing to raze it to the ground. Crow must defend it with his life. The battle begins, but Tucker doesn’t realise that he must contend with a man who has the power of nature behind him. Before the day is done, he and his men will learn the real meaning of terror in this original supernatural thriller. Sales handled by 4Digital Media www.4digitalmedia.com tel: +44 1753 893121 info@4digitalmedia.com
Avengeance
in development
Cadarn is an outcast Celt at the time of the Roman invasion, yet lives peacefully with his family in a remote farmstead in the hills of Wales. He is a skilled archer and sets off into the mountains to hunt, but upon his return, to his horror, finds his son has been mercilessly slaughtered and his wife dying outside their burning farmhouse. In her last breath she tells him that a scouting party of six Roman legionnaires are the perpetrators. Grief stricken and distraught, Cadarn pleads for help from the gods.
Lovely Day
in development
Jazz! Miles, Mingus, Monk! These are 16 year old Richies’ heroes. The jazz greats! The coolest of the cool! The posters on his bedroom wall keep him company through the early hours, while he dreams of playing bass with Miles Davis. Lovely Day follows one boy’s obsession with jazz, where determination, fate and chance conspire to make a dream come true for young Richie. A moving and heart-warming love poem from a boy to his mother in a 1970’s valley’s town.
No Vacancies
completed
James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn’t enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same room, in the same hotel. Mariella watches them – unknown, unseen, unheard. She’s the hotel cleaner who deals with the debris, the aftermath of their passion. She dreams of a similar life. This has been the pattern for some time, but Ali wants more. James can’t give it. He wants to keep it as it is. It starts to play with Ali’s head. She schemes and dreams and fantasises. Things start to unravel, but Mariella is use to cleaning up mess. She is thorough; methodical, meticulous.
Downtown Paradise
in development
Young defence lawyer, Rachel Bloom, takes on the brief of Black Panther, James Wilson, but when her judgement is clouded by emotional involvement, she puts her own life at risk in this civil rights political thriller.
The Springeald
in development
It’s 1838 and there’s a killer on the loose. They think it’s ‘the long fella’, the Springeald, but is the hideous one the killer or really the protector? It’s Joseph Proberts duty to find out.
Abraham's Point
completed
The tale of Comet Snape’s sometimes sad, often funny, redemptive journey home from London to West Wales carrying a grandfather clock. It’s a moving, picaresque story about the pain of grief, estrangement, absence, guilt and ultimately the journey home to repair the past and forgive.
Playing Burton
completed
Winner of a BAFTA Cymru Best Film Award, this unique, one actor, feature length film, adapted from a multi award-winning stage play, traces the Hollywood star, Richard Burton’s rise from South Wales mining community poverty, through tutelage by his mentor, Phillip Burton, to international star of stage and screen. A soulful exploration of the ambitions of one of the greatest actors of his generation, it follows his passionate though tempestuous love affair with Elizabeth Taylor and his tragic battle with alcoholism until his eventual demise.
Dante's Daemon
completed
Dan Teal is a successful sculptor and artist, but when his wife leaves him for his best friend his mind begins to unravel. Plagued by dark hallucinations, his nemesis, Mr Black provokes thoughts of suicide. Encouraged by therapist, Dr. B.T. Reis to take a vacation, he travels to a remote cottage to heal his soul. Yet, when his schizoid, daemons return, he enters a life or death battle for personal salvation.