Productions
Flight of The Fancies
TV Series
In the 1980s a host of Irish Air Stewardesses, left Ireland to work for Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines. It was just a job for some, a change of scenery for others, but many of the women fell in love with the country, married Jordanian men and made their lives there. Flight of the Fancies, is a romantic, funny and dramatic series following the fictionalised story of four of the women who made the move to Amman in the spring of 1983.
Status: In Development
Writer: Len Collin
Len says: “Based on a true story I met some of the original “Fancies” in Amman they inspired me with their stories and their love for their adopted country. I wanted to write something that captured that energy and love. Something aspirational and optimistic about the middle east and the clash of Jordanian and Irish cultures.”
Pigs in Blankets
TV Series
Helen Coates, a middle-aged businesswoman, faces post-pandemic financial ruin, but when she inherits a pig farm in Ireland, from a brother she didn’t know existed, her life is changed forever.
Pigs in Blankets is an uplifting series that focuses on a woman who has to re-evaluate what is important in her life, in order to transform into the person, she wants to be.
Helen Coates (50s) has her own PR agency, Smile, in London. She has always considered herself to be a good person. She was a good wife, until her husband had an affair. A
good mother, but now her son has left the nest for university. A hardworking, moral and good employer, until Covid ripped a hole in her finances. Now she is hanging on by a thread, with clients deserting the company and her best employees leaving “a sinking ship”. She has always been a good friend, often supporting those in need with a ready
shoulder, or credit free loan. Her house has been on the market for a year, her love life is non-existent, and her former business partner and best friend Sue is in a home for Dementia patients. Helen finds herself lonely and isolated in one of the world’s busiest cities. then she gets a call from a solicitor in Ireland.
Status: In Development
Writer: Len Collin
Based on an idea by Michelle Collins
The Faery Wife
Feature Film
The Faery Wife explores the true story of Bridget Cleary who in rural Ireland 1898 was murdered by her husband Michael Cleary.
Steph Lloyd Jones has written an engaging and challenging script that looks at the events through a feminist lens. Bridget was more a woman of our times than a woman of the nineteenth century. An entrepreneur with her own business, her own dreams and desires, independent of her husband. When Michael suspects she's a 'changeling' he and her family turn to dark folklore, only too willing to join in - but who has really been touched by the fairies?
Developed with funding from Ffilm Cymru
Writer: Steph Lloyd Jones
Steph is an experienced writer and script editor. Her credits include: The Bill, River City, Red Rock, Doctors, Holby City and Eastenders.
Steph Lloyd Jones is represented by Cecily Ware Literary Agents
Iron Harvest
Feature
Set now and in 1917 this is the story of four young men separated by a century, who fell in love in the face of war and street violence. Based on the award winning play Box by Len Collin this big screen version adapts the story for today's audience. Mark is mixed race and on the run after a knife fight on the streets of London. He meets Ronan on a ferry to France and immediately sees him as a dupe after stealing his wallet. However, Ronan is less of a push over than Mark initially thinks and he ends up agreeing to travel with him.
They end up working on a Belgian farm for accommodation and food, their task is to dig a drainage ditch. But in amongst the "Iron Harvest" of spent munitions from the first world war, they discover a box that contains the relics of two soldiers, one English and one German. Through a diary they learn about the story of these two men who fell in love and deserted the war together. However there is also a rifle in the box, and Mark sees that has his passport out of trouble.
Status: In Development
Writer: Len Collin
Len says: "This is the work that launched my career as a writer, it has never left me as a story and I now want to bring it to the wider world as a film. Box was well received as a play and the characters of Marcus and Gavin as they then were, are based on people I knew and grew up with. I understood violence as a young man, and Toxic masculinity, which wasn't a phrase used back then. It's an important story that can find a new and appreciative audience in the LGBTQ community and beyond."
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN COOL AND THE GROOVY GANG
TV Series
Part of our Emerging Talents strand
When a series of mysterious asteroids strike the town of Bramsville turning innocent civilians into bloodthirsty ghouls and monsters, James Watts and his loyal friends The Groovy Gang must fight to save the town from certain doom… unaware of a much greater intergalactic threat coming their way.
Eleven years after his father was murdered and sucked into a mysterious portal, James Watts aka Captain Cool and his group of loyal friends, The Groovy Gang find themselves protecting the small, secluded town of Bramsville from a constant barrage of ghouls, monsters and everything in between, leading up to a final confrontation between good and evil. All this happening whilst the gang try to deal with early adulthood and their arch nemesis, Sergeant Shithead and The Prick Patrol.
Writers: Nate James Williams and Jack Sinclair
Muse
Feature
Part of our Emerging Talents strand
A screenwriter escapes to the countryside for the weekend with his
wife and his editor to cure his writer's block, but instead finds
himself distracted by his sexual attraction towards his true object of
desire - his editor.
Muse is an examination of toxic masculinity and male impotence explored through the character of a successful screenwriter with low self-esteem. He can express himself in his written work, but his life is a mess and he cannot appreciate the gifts that life has already given him. Thought provoking, mature work from an emerging talent.
Writer: Bobby Charlton
Balloons
Feature
Part of our Emerging Talents strand
It's Lou Lou's tenth birthday, she is the youngest child of five siblings all but her brother Daniel (20) have left home, and now he is leaving too. Suzanne (60) the matriarch of the family is losing her health, and the grip she once had on her children. They have all established homes and families of their own... all she has left now is LOU Lou and her husband Andy.
Set in the 1990s Balloons is an examination of the breakdown of a family as seen through the eyes of a ten year old girl wise beyond her years. It is an emotional journey centred on Suzanne, who without her purpose in life, is left adrift, isolated and lonely.. Funny, heart rending work from an emerging talent.
Writer: Charlotte Chase