Dressing Granite" is a 90-minute micro-budget feature film, co- produced by Bedrock Films and Wild West Films, and funded by Cornwall Film. This contemporary story about two stone masons, father and son, addresses powerful issues surrounding family ties, the challenges of illness and the tension between tradition and progress. The film has been adapted by Pauline Sheppard from her own successful stage play and was made entirely in Cornwall, using local crew and cast.
After constant arguments with his parents and after being left by the girl who dumped him for an engineer, Mike leaves university and starts managing a laundry hoping to find himself and escape from his life.
Pam meets Rico an Ivatan, and decides to leave her stressful life in the city to follow him to Batanes to meet his parents Boy and Lydia and marry him.
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares.
In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life.
Through interviews and recreation, Zoo tells the story of "zoos," or men who "love" animals, through a group of men involved in the fatal incident involving man-horse love.
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