STRUGGLE-Film in Post Production sponsored by the Cameron Grant Memorial Trust - Mental Health issues - Struggle is the story of one late teen girl who amid the pressures of modern society breaks down . Her parents want her to do well at school, the teachers at her school press the girls to get good grades, excel at sport and music. Her friendships are compromised by the latest fads, whether or not she is invited to the cool parties and accepted by the “it” girl groups. Social media pressurises her to be thin and pretty or face ridicule. No-one is to be trusted as even people she thought were friends troll her on social media. This adds to the struggle of how you have been raised versus what is expected of you by your peers.

 Admitting she has a problem is the hardest thing. She asks her mother for medical help and counselling which is the first step to recovery.

The film will have moving made up people, i/e/ people painted to look like a moving painting with "normal people and will incorporate animation to make it fun, moving and engaging for young people as well as adults to watch.

Sponsored by the Cameron Grant Memorial Trust.

THE OTHERS- a 3 minute film about an alien living a secret life written by Alan Blyton. We hope to film this year. And are presently applying for funds.

THE WILDLINGS TRAP  In post production - a short about a girl who lives in the woods as a "Wilding" in the Home Counties. She is not conventionally schooled or parented. A hitch hiker encounters her and mayhem follows.

The following scripts are available for sale for others to use:

1. Teen Prophet: 20 mins Mimi a whizz at science and a secret tae kwon do champion hears a "voice" when visiting Joan of Arc's grave with her mother. Joan when a teenager changed history and the voice tells her she is chosen to change world history.  Reluctant and unbelieving Mimi set off on her first mission to stop a nuclear bomb being launched.  She cannot believe that anyone will listen to a teenage girl in this patriarchal and ageist society. How will she accomplish this feat?

2. Hidden Angels:  15 mins Three unlikely and lonley people meet and though they dislike and distrust each other at first. They then find that each has something to give that makes the other's lives better. The characters are Femi an orphan and illegal immigrant who must remain under the radar of authority to pretect herself and her little brother, Jaimie a gay man, his tired drag act needs revamping to give him that big break that he craves, and Mr Maximov an elderly Jew, a survivor of the holocaust, lonely and impoverished who still mourns the wife that died thirty years ago.

3. Ape Child:  15 mins Marcy and Rob have the perfect life, good looking and successful with two beautiful blonde boys but they long for a daughter.  When a scan shows that the pregant Marcy is to have a girl they are thrilled. However when the girl is born she has hypertrichosis lanuginosa, in other words she is very hairy and ugly.  As time goes on the toddler does not speak only grunts and is very volatile. Finally Marcy decides to send the child to a special institution never to return so that she can get on with her erstwhile perfect existence.

4. He Says, She Says:  10-15 mins Domestic violence against a man is talked of very little.  Here we see the viewpoint from the possibly warped mind of both husband and wife in the outwardly perfect marriage.  However when the husband dies after an accident whose account are we to believe, was the wife the violent one or was it the husband?

5.. The Innocent One: 15 mins  Madeleine, a simple country girl comes to The Sisters of Mercy convent in the late 1800's as a novice nun. Here the sisters take in unmarried mothers and give the babies to good catholic homes for adoption.  When Madeleine gives birth herself it's a shock as her pregnancy has gone un noticed.  She claims it's a virgin birth and the baby is the new Christ.  When stigmata appear on her hands the Mother Superior and Priest seize the opportunity and allow her to become a pilgrimage spectacle. They allow this in order to ask for money for their new stained glass window. Madeleine is not so simple and pious as she seems and one day both she, the baby and all the money disappear.

6.. Escape: 10 mins Maggie and John are celebrating their 5 year wedding anniversary by going on a road trip to Ireland.  They pick up a seemingly harmless man, a hitchhiker, on the journey.  At first he is benign but he gradually asks more and more probing questions and seems to know a lot more about their lives then a stranger should.  He opens a can of worms with  disastrous consequences.

7. The Haircut - Gay has been a conventional housewife for 25 years, uncomplaining and compliant,she is demeaned by her husband and two young daughters. Treated as a chattel for her good looks and cudos that she brings  Franklyn is  her husband she never says a word against him. But inside she is seething and a chance leaflet through the door from a Women's movement leads to an act of defiance.

8. Barak - A story about an east end family with a far right, neo nazi father who foster a little Syrian boy who is gay. Written by Cheryl Neve and Jane Sanger

Please email me for a NDA reading of any of the scripts if you would like to read with a view to buy : info@luminofilms.co.uk

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