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“THE PIG IS FINE “ - (Il Porco Sta Bene) A yuppy; a pretty girl; a village; a cinema; a priest; four ladies; a festival; George Clooney; some biscuits and the pig is fine. Emilio, a yuppy, travels south from Milan to take up his inheritance, a run-down cinema in his old home town in Calabria. Alice, a local Mafia daughter, is not just an usherette, she is a budding actress and wants to star in a Hollywood epic with George Clooney, with whom she has fallen in love while watching his films. Emilio falls in love with Alice. In order to win her, he hatches a cunning plan: to organize a film festival and invite George as its guest of honour, then stand back to let reality play its course. The local Priest, who believes all movies to be works of the Devil, wants to tear the cinema down and build a supermarket; so aided by the Mafia, he attempts to thwart Emilio’s endeavour. Emilio’s only allies are four ladies - wives of the local functionaries - who have their own agenda: to recapture their younger days. But how to persuade George to come? The village makes traditional biscuits. Pigs like biscuits, George has a pig and George follows his pig’s will. Screenplay: LUISA RAIMONDI “JACK THE RIPPER: THE NEXT CHAPTER” London, 1888: A series of grisly killings terrorises the city. A murderer known only as ‘Jack The Ripper’ haunts the fogbound streets of Whitechapel, ultimately to vanish as mysteriously as he appeared ... case closed, perpetrator unknown. But Coachman John Netley, having been an unwitting participant in the murders, knows who the Ripper is: Sir William Gull, surgeon to Queen Victoria, and bloodthirsty psychopath. When Sir William, en route to his new position as Surgeon to the court of the Russian Tsar in St Petersburg, falls sick and is returned to England. Netley, ever-seeking a way to escape his past, assumes the man’s identity, lying and cheating his way to a new life in Russia. All goes well until Netley has to treat the Tsar’s gravely ill daughter, Princess Natalie, and falls under her spell. Soon realising she needs an operation, Netley has to teach himself the fine art of surgery in order not only to fulfil his position, but save the life of his forbidden love. Netley’s troubles mount when Sergeant Godley of Scotland Yard, a leading figure in the Ripper case, takes up his trail, convinced the former coachman is the infamous killer, and arrives in Russia. Natalie’s health deteriorates, the Tsar decides it best to have her sent by Royal train to their Summer resort at Livadia Palace on the shores of the Black Sea, where she can benefit from the warmer sunshine. Netley is instructed to follow the Royal party by coach and horse, for on the way he must search out the existence of a rare herbal remedy to aid the Princess’ recovery. So Netley’s odyssey begins: a journey that will see him cross vast Ukrainian Steppes, with assorted enemies at every turn, ceaseless in his quest to find a cure for his Princess and save her from the clutches of death. He has little idea, however, of the sacrifices to be made along his epic trek . A fast-paced adventure, Jack The Ripper: The Next Chapter delves into the mind of a man seeking redemption, twisting and turning with every step. Can Netley shake off his past in time to discharge his mission? Or will the shadow of the Ripper darken his world once more...? Screenplay: CHRISTOPHER. J. DAVIES Inspired by Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”, this new adaptation is set in India during the unsettled nineteen twenties, dramatizing the passionate, but finally tragic love affair between Anna, the beautiful, vital wife of a British Raj diplomat and Ranjit, the rich, playboy son of an Indian Prince. Meeting by chance when Anna first arrives in India from England, the two fall headlong in love. Anna’s marriage, some years old is already a sterile affair. Yet she has a young child she adores and so is torn between her lover and her home. Ranjit, a brash, Westernised young man, is confident at first that he can achieve anything he wants in life. Yet he too is bound to the past, in his case by a timeless dynastic heritage, represented by his fiercely proud father, the old Maharaja. The lovers achieve a momentary bliss, and when the old Maharaja dies, Anna is even installed by the son in his marble palace beside a mountain lake. Yet their happiness is short-lived. Depressed at having access to her son denied her by his father, Anne becomes addicted to morphine, and prey to wild, jealous rages. Finally Ranjit and Anna quarrel violently and in a fit of madness she throws herself beneath a train ... The story ends, as it began, in the year of India’s independence, 1948. In the crumbling ruin of the marble palace, its new ruler killed in a car accident, a lone crippled figure is left wandering... the ‘English Concubine’, as she is known to the locals, lives on into her middle age, still physically afflicted by her suicide attempt - but damaged much more deeply, in her soul. Screenplay: STEVE GOUGH A baby daughter is born to a young lieutenant’s wife. But, life on the Northwest Frontier of India in the 1870s is harsh, and after a year of struggling with poverty, the elements and attack from Afghan tribesmen, the child is dispatched to England to be brought up by maiden aunts in a country parsonage. The mother remains dutifully beside her husband, as he advances through the ranks to take command of the garrison at Agra. Screenplay: STEVE GOUGH & N. M. BHATTI Set in the Caucasus Mountains of 19th Century Georgia, a story of love and betrayal, dealing with the obsessive love of a peasant hill-farmer for his young daughter. Following the death of his wife the farmer, Ahmed , lives with his daughter, Aysha, in a cottage high in the Mountains. Working the land together, they are bonded by the sadness of their loss. But Aysha is young and beautiful and drawn to the city life beyond the hills.. Following a train accident in the valley, an injured nobleman, Dmitri, is brought to their cottage. As the father and daughter take care of him, Aysha is soon fascinated by the hansom man who’s life is so different from hers. They fall in love. Ahmed is suspicious and hostile and so one night Aysha decides to elope with Dmitri. Ahmed lives for some months in a dream, before he discovers the whereabouts of his daughter and travels to the city for the first time in his life. Aysha and Dmitri are stunned at Ahmed’s appearance in their rich city mansion, placing a grubby pile of coins before them to buy his daughter back. The aristocrat is scornful. The farmer leaves in despair and humiliation, only to return hours later, armed with a pistol and gun Dmitri down. Ahmed and his now pregnant daughter flee in the confusion back to the mountains. Finally father and daughter become reconciled. But then one day a stranger arrives in the remote hills. It is Dmitri, his face terribly scarred from the pistol wound. He has come to claim back his child. Screenplay: STEVE GOUGH ‘Badmash’, the Hindi word for villain, could be subtitled "Lock Stock and Two Vindaloos" or "Get Carter meets My Beautiful Laundrette". It's a violent gangster thriller set within the Asian underworld of London’s East End and Bradford. A Sikh hitman is driven by his brutal code of honour as the final contract becomes personal. Screenplay: N. M. BHATTI Love, Politics, Religion and the Mafia, each play an important role in the simple rites of passage tale, set in the 1950s, of a young man, Cufu, who returns to Sicily after spending three years at university in Bergamo only to discover that his Father had sold his future services to the local shadowy figure of the ‘pezzo grosso’ (big shot) for the price of an education. A revelation enough to turn any young man, expecting a summer vacation with his mates in search of libidinous fun, into a rebel with a cause. Screenplay: LEO MILAZZO and N. M. BHATTI A hot July morning in Brixton, bulldozers move in to demolish an old gothic chapel. A decayed limb is glimpsed in the rubble as the workman uncover a mass grave of fifty corpses, all grotesquely twisted and bent. An occult thriller ensues, snaking its way across the astral plane to Port Au Prince, Haiti, making a detour through Blackpool ‘en route’, in a melange of international politics, murder, voodoo and zombies. Screenplay: CHRISTOPHER J. DAVIES "COMBO AND THE TANK” Screenplay: JOHN DAVIS & STEVE GOUGH |