A BOY CALLED DAD

Written by BAFTA winner Julie Rutterford and directed by double BAFTA winner Brian Percival.

Cast includes Ian Hart, Charlene McKenna, Steve Evets and hotly-tipped newcomer Kyle Ward.

Location:

Nottingham, Skegness, Liverpool and North Wales

Genre:

Drama

Log-line:

“All I ever wanted was a dad. Instead I got a son…”

‘A Boy Called Dad' tells the story of Robbie, a 14 year-old boy who has just become a father. Abandoned by his own dad Joe, Robbie snatches his son and goes on the run.

As Joe joins the search for Robbie, they are each forced to face up to the past and what it really means to be a father.

www.aboycalleddad.com

Director:

Brian Percival

Writer:

Julie Rutterford

Main funders:

EM Media, North West Vision and Film Agency for Wales and Made UP North's private equity partners in the North West.

Written by Justin Trefgarne from an Idea by John Merryfield

Location:

Edinburgh

Genre:

Family comedy

Log-line:

With her mum dead and her professor father out searching for ghosts all around town, it seems as if Beth's prayers have been answered when her long-lost Granny comes to stay. But is Granny all that she seems…?

Developed with the assistance of the UK Film Council and Scottish Screen.

Writer:

Justin Trefgarne

John Merryfield

Written by Matthew Ehlers

Location:

Manchester

Genre:

Buddy film

Log-line:

When Mike discovers he has cancer, he conjures up a plan to trick his best friend, Ben, into taking a jump at life by convincing him that it's he who has the disease. Can their friendship survive the test?

This project is being developed with the assistance of North West Vision.

Writer:

Matthew Ehlers

Written by Matt Ehlers

Location:

US

Genre:

Romantic comedy

Log-line:

A misfit wedding party limo collides into a feuding funeral party, leaving them stranded together at a remote lakehouse. Vows and Rites is about the comedy of saying ‘goodbye' and the tragedy of saying ‘I do'.

Writer:

Matthew Ehlers

Log-line:

Forgiveness is divine, but is revenge sweeter?

Synopsis::

Michael Donahue’s faith in God is strong until his wife and child are killed in a hit and run. They say these things are sent to test us - and Michael’s faith is tested to the limit. As he sets out to find the perpetrator, he is met with a wall of silence even the police have given up all hope of finding the killer. Michael’s last hope is to go against everything he believes in, to find out the truth. The truth being Jamie Sinclair But Sinclair is part of a notoriously violent family that holds the local community in its grip. Michael goes to Sinclair to beg him to confess and hand himself in, but this only makes things worse. As the family closes ranks, will Michael’s passionate faith allow him to forgive Sinclair or will it force him to take his revenge? Forgiveness is divine, but revenge is sweeter?

Director:

Steve Looker

Writer:

Chris Green

Log-line:

What price friendship?

Synopsis::

BEST LAID PLANS is about the bonds of friendship, and how loyalty and love can be tested under the most extreme and violent circumstances.

The film is a co production between Made Up North and Moli Films, the production arm of the highly successful Molinare Group.

Starring:

Stephen Graham   & Maxine Peake