• Max Needs Help

    Max Needs Help is a dark comedy that focuses on the anxieties of Max - a man who has never experienced therapy before and now finds himself spiralling throughout his first session. ◦ Written/directed by Tom Nunez Starring: Margaret Clunie + Tom Nunez Producer: Zara Trott

  • Lovecraft: When the Stars are Right

    This is the first film ever made about H. P. Lovecraft — and almost no one has seen it. Shot in 1989–90, it features unique interviews with Lovecraft's friends and colleagues. It has sat unfinished for more than thirty-five years. We need your help to complete it and release it for the first time. Banner/background image shows Frank Belknap Long and Stuart Gordon.

  • Every Place is for Me

    A dark comedy about the lengths one woman will go to for external validation, set in a gym where old age is the social currency. The script has been shortlisted for multiple funding competitions, including becoming a finalist in the Slick Films funding competition.

  • Two Sugars

    Two Sugars is an intimate character-driven drama set in a London café. Donell meets his old friend Toby after a long estrangement. Their banter is lighthearted at first, yet beneath the surface, both men carry heavy emotional burdens. Toby, who suffers from a heart condition called arrhythmia, while Donell masks his insecurities with bravado and a new substance, "Shoogar", a dangerous stimulant.

  • ON CALL

    Far from home, in a café in central London, awaiting news of her new-born's surgery, a young mother is haunted by a passing couple, triggering memories from her past and a secret she has kept from her partner.

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£14,240 funded
Funded

A Thirty Something's Guide to Your First Miscarriage

Film
Production

What’s it really like to lose a baby? This short film offers a raw, darkly funny and deeply personal answer. Inspired by the real-life miscarriage of one of our writer/directors, it follows a thirty-something woman through the chaotic, surreal reality of her first loss. Blending theatre and film, with bold humour and honesty, it challenges stigma and breaks the silence around pregnancy loss.

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£1,925 funded
Ongoing

Every Place is for Me

Film
Production

A dark comedy about the lengths one woman will go to for external validation, set in a gym where old age is the social currency.

The script has been shortlisted for multiple funding competitions, including becoming a finalist in the Slick Films funding competition.

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£1,600 funded
36 days left

Taxidermy

Film
Production

Taxidermy begins with a simple but unsettling premise: a man stands across from the stranger who was the recipient of his dead husband’s organ donation, his piercing blue eyes.

A deeply personal narrative, drawn from the writer/director's own experience of disability, the film is a queer love story about grief, disability and identity.

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£3,769 funded
Ongoing

Little Big Brother

Comedy
Completion

LITTLE BIG BROTHER is a comedic and heartwarming tale of two brothers trying to repair their broken relationship on a chaotic road trip to university. Old tensions and lingering grief turn their journey into a hilarious yet heartfelt reckoning with their past — and each other.

Producer: Lily Allmark
Director: Max Meadows
Cinematographer: Chris Tailor
Writer: Ellis Waynforth

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£2,205 funded
44 days left

Dear Papa

Drama
Production

A lifetime of quiet sacrifice collides with a son’s deepest fear when an aging father who gave up everything to secure his child’s future proves that love was never something that had to be earned.

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£5,380 funded
Funded

See You Tomorrow

Comedy
Production

A fearless, darkly comic one-woman show based on a true story. See You Tomorrow explores what happens when the only witness—your own memory—can’t testify. Heading from Cardiff to the Edinburgh Fringe, this piece is led by trained actor and writer Beth Lindsey, with director Helen Iley and BAFTA-winning producer Katy Mendo.

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£6,000 funded
Funded

Chinese Takeaway

Film
Production

CHINESE TAKEAWAY is a dark comedy thriller about what you can get through with your best friend.

Once upon a time at university, two girls find a flatmate who loves his nightly Chinese takeaway. Until he disappears... leaving a body behind.

Cast: Henry Rowley, Precious Mustapha, Rosalie Minnitt
Writer/Director: Jessica Hof
Producer: Roxane Bourges
DoP: Ben Smith

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£1,086 funded
Funded

HÉCTOR

Film
Production

Héctor is a 15-minute drama about an undocumented Colombian migrant in London surviving one exhausting workday before reuniting with his daughter after 8 years apart. Shot in Seven Sisters with the real Latin American community. Neorealism meets docufiction. This story is personal — my father lived it, and when I arrived in London in 2024, so did I.

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