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Following the success of "Do Elephants Pray?" Elephant Features have an exciting and diverse slate of films in development for production between 2012 - 2013
QUALITY UK INDEPENDENT FILMS
In Development
ABRA-CA-DEBRA
What if you fell in love with the impossible dream of a woman who lives in a world you don’t understand ?
Director & Story: Paul Hils
Screenwriter: Jonnie Hurn
Producers: Steve Di Marco, Paul Hills, Jonnie Hurn
Magic Consultant: Scott Penrose
Cast (STC): Andrew Lee-Potts, Marc Warren
Genre: Comedy
Elephant Features & Dimarco Films in association with The Magic Circle present a bittersweet British comedy set in the world of stage magic, where reality is just an illusion...
SYNOPSIS
When he breaks his leg Tony (Andrew Lee-Potts), a young shy virginal 22yr, is dragged to a weekend convention in Blackpool by his estranged magic-loving Grandfather, making his last annual pilgrimage.
There he meets and falls for Debra, a glamorous yet deeply unhappy Magician’s Assistant who is nightly impaled by a Horror Illusionist, whilst locked in a bitter divorce with a sad-faced Clown.
But when Tony, having learnt about magic from his Grandfather to win Debra’s heart, discovers that she wants to escape this fake world of illusion he is thrust between the two rivals forcing him to overcome his shyness and stand up for the woman he has fallen for.
“The characters are great fun, the dialogue is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, and the story has a really old-fashioned feel-good heart of gold quality about it. It’s very distinctively British and indeed northern in flavour.” Richard Johns, Warp X
Further information, photographs, profiles and script samples available at
RAT SCABIES & THE HOLY GRAIL
The Da Vinci Code goes punk...
AN ELEPHANT FEATURES PRODUCTION
Director: Paul Hills
Screenwriter: Jonnie Hurn
Original Book: Christopher Dawes
Producers: Paul Hills, Steve Di Marco, Jonnie Hurn
Associate Producers: Rat Scabies & Christopher Dawes
Cast: TBC
Genre: Comedy
Based on the hugely popular book "Rat Scabies & The Holy Grail" is the true story of a punk icon's quest to solve the mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau, the story that inspired The Da Vinci Code.
SYNOPSIS
True story of bored music journalist Push who is persuaded by ex-drummer of the legendary punk band The Damned to embark on a year long quest to France to find the Holy Grail.
With a gammut of bizarre characters either helping or hindering their search the self-confessed "pair of idiots" face Templar Knights, Secret Societies, CIA spies, "Mad Dog" the book finder, a mystical former Air Stewardess, a cheese loving lethario, a pirate-faced gangster, an eccentric former Dr Who scriptwriter and the 100 year old mystery he discovered of a multi-millionaire French priest....
...and it is ALL TRUE.
TAKE DOWN THE UNION JACK
There are two sides to every conflict, even when one side is against conflict itself.
SYNOPSIS
A photographer documenting a terminally ill vandal discovers she is an unwilling suicide bomber targeting his estranged politician father.
LONDON – ONE YEAR FROM NOW.
Haunted by the premature death of his sister, MOTHY, a diffident photographer with an obsession for documenting the anti-establishment, embarrasses his estranged politician father when he’s arrested at an Arms Fair whilst photographing a shaven-headed young demonstrator with big boots and attitude to fill them. She is DIMPLE (Sarah-Jane Potts) and she is bent on releasing her inner aggression through urban vandalism citing terminal illness as the basis for her anti-social acts.
As he captures Dimple's destructive lifestyle he is dragged unwittingly into her unpredictable and unstable political underworld; a band of idealistic protesters lead by troubled AWOL soldier TIGER, determined to expose the symbiotic hypocrisy of war and the arms trade. Unaware that his actions are a continual thorn in his father’s political side Mothy discovers through his lens a darker world of coded messages, undetectable explosives, black-mail, extreme beliefs, and a leader twisting Dimple from a mere urban annoyance into a domestic suicide bomber.
The target, the increasingly draconian Government and by default, Mothy’s father. As their relationship deepens the invisible barrier between photographer and subject shatters as each tries to convince the other to abandon their ideologies in exchange for their own, culminating in a shocking and controversial public climax.
Take Down The Union Jack is a hard-hitting yet commercially targeted British film-noir with an anti-war theme and a controversial climax.
Director: Paul Hils
Screenwriter: Jonnie Hurn
Producers: Steve Di Marco, Paul Hills, Jonnie Hurn
Cast (STC): Sarah-Jane Potts
Genre: Political Thriller
Teaser Trailer for 'Take Down The Union Jack'
Music: Billy Bragg (subject to permission)
For further information and investment opportunities please contact Elephant Features
investment@elephantfeatures.com
More projects to be added soon.
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