Script Pitch: Read Pitches

An old fisherman living in a small cottage by the sea misses his wife Annabelle. He is estranged from his friends in town and bares a grudge against the local priest as he stares at a gravestone in the churchyard. His longing for his wife grows. He writes her a letter and posts it. The next day the postman delivers the letter to his house. He places the letter under the door of the second bedroom. A tale of longing, tragedy, suspense and intrigue.

After Ryan gathers the courage to speak with Alex, a lost tourist girl from the Czech Republik, while sat together on an Edinburgh Bus, they embark upon a magical adventure around the city together.

After moving with his military father to an army base in Cyprus, a quiet teenage boy struggles to fit into his new life until he meets the mysterious tomboy, Sarah, who opens his eyes up to a whole new world filled with fun, adventure, romance, and tragedy.

A young playboy and a failed dealer are forced by the infamous boss of the Alice Discoclub to find who stole from him the Tank Dust, a red drug able to give super powers to whoever sniffs just a line of it.
The two guys will have to go after each dealer of Giulio’s club right during the carnival party in order to find the guilty; but the clock is ticking: they have until closing time, before Giulio’s anger will overwhelm them.

Why didn't they make a sequel to Gandhi? You'll wish you didn't ask.

Two guys rob a married couple and get more than they bargained for when it turns out the couple are members of a cult-like criminal organisation.

A desperately lonely elderly man retraces the cruising spots of his youth in search of a sexual encounter. A terribly sad, dark comedy about the elderly gay communities isolation.

Mrs Foster has cancer. Anxious about starting her chemotherapy treatment, she forms an unexpected friendship that gives her much more than just a glimmer of hope.

Ever wondered if it would be possible to accidentally appear in an adult movie ?. No ?. Neither had Colin until today.

With spin doctors for witches, campaign managers for thanes, vice-presidents for princes and presidents for kings this is a timely update of Shakespeare’s classic play to contemporary Washington. The era may have changed but slimy politicians and the corruption of power remain. Shakespeare’s dialogue combines perfectly with modern politics to capture contemporary malaise and voter alienation, plus politicians have always spoken a different language to everyone else. As a good man ruined by power, Macbeth cannot escape the catch-22 of being unable to implement change without power, but unable to achieve power without being corrupted by it.
There are no real murders, just political deaths. American politicians’ fondness of killing metaphors, along with the prevalence of religion in U.S. politics makes this the ideal setting.

A week in the live of a cinema worker who deals with colleagues, customers, hot dogs and his dream of becoming a filmmaker.

A screenwriter gets run over by a lorry, and is sent to hospital. Worse than that, no one understands his art.

Someone wanted him dead, so they murdered his only child and plunged him into a bloody vendetta.

Two fresh-faced young whippersnappers meet at Drama School and instantly become best buds, drinking, drugging and shagging their way to what they hope will be thespian glory. Trouble is, Lady Luck only has eyes for one of them. Can a friendship survive one of those friends getting it all while the other can’t cop a break for love nor money? When your bestest friend’s face is twenty feet high on a billboard, how close can you really be and still recognise her?
But wait! Fate just can’t keep her hands to herself. She steps in, once more, to even things up; everything ends happily ever after and nobody has to die… Oh wait... No… Someone dies. And now, one half of our happy pair has a terrible secret.
Lucky You is a Comedy Womance. With a Murder.

Sorcerer and blasphemer.
Father of Judas Iscariot.
True betrayer of Jesus Christ.

Nick is a film director haunted by his dreams.

A Halloween prank takes a sinister turn when the Chinese underworld of drugs, gambling and subterfuge targets a quiet provincial city. A web of intrigue, danger, intimidation, fear and death changes the life of the city forever – the cruellest trick of all.

When two troubled people come together for a night of passion, things turn sour but nothing can stand in the way of a good rebound!

A young teenage girl and her psychotic twin sister must grow up hard and fast in the unforgiving Scottish Highlands as their father - a sick and twisted man of violence, obsessed with the end of the world - teaches them how to survive out in the wild with no one to rely on but themselves.

Great Britain - 2029. An ex-soldier with a tragic past and nothing left to live for sets off on a perilous journey of revenge and redemption into the heart of a lawless and unrecognizable, un-United Kingdom.

A weekend fishing trip seems rather a good idea. Sun, a few beers and a trio of pals get to really speak their minds and relax. BUT........

A ringcard girl uses a boxer to get rid of her gangster ex and makes a few quid in the process.

In the stadiums of Rome, a debate rages on, about who will take over the empire. As the two main philosophies duke it out, a new candidate emerges, Attila the Hun.

A college professor moves to the city and is drawn into her new neighbour’s plan to dispose of something she has hidden away in her apartment.

2060: artificial intelligence rules all. Antigonnie (17) is unique – she’s off-grid, having missed the compulsory operation to put a voice transmitter/tracker into her neck. But... if anyone speaks to her, she’ll be exposed to the surveillance bots. Isolated and trapped in her own home, she is about to hand herself in for the implant.

Then she and her sister hide a young rebel whose transmitter has been removed, and Ant can at last have a real, unconstrained relationship. But who can she trust?

Turingland packs contemporary issues of data-led social manipulation, and timeless themes of teenage isolation and first love, into a twisting SF. It has trilogy potential, and is written for a low-medium budget.