Development

The Calling (Working Title)

Joanna is a modern, young woman at university, engaged with all that comes with student life, friends, booze, drugs and entertainment but something is missing. Joanna has been avoiding the truth her whole life but now she comes to face the fact that she has an inexplicable, spiritual calling to be with God. She wants to become a Nun. The Calling is a spiritual coming of age story about a modern young woman's external and internal struggles with her yearning to become a 'Bride of Christ'. Joanna is the only one who understands why she would even consider making the ultimate sacrifice, foregoing all the pleasures, freedom, choices and distractions that the world she inhabits has to offer. As she slowly comes out to them, her friends don't understand, her boyfriend is devastated and her hedonistic mother begins to wonder if the enormous amount of money she's poured into her daughter's education has been wasted. The Calling is a film about facing the truth and coming to terms with yourself and accepting who you truly are and that in the end the one person you cannot run away from is yourself.

When Love Comes to Town (Working Title)

Oh, love is a crooked thing'
WB Yeats

Every town in the world has its secrets. Each inhabitant and visitor has dreams and longings. Ours is no different and throughout the course of one summer the search for love forces truth to the fore and life will never be the same again. Relationships are tested and new ones formed in a heart-warming romp through love and all its crooked ways.

In a small seaside town on the East Coast of Ireland, this summer will see fundamental changes for locals and visitors alike. Love has come to town and things can never be the same again. With the backdrop of the town's unofficial matchmaker, Franny O'Flaherty, going about her usual business, she is about to discover her husband's guilty secret and will use this to change her status within their marriage forever.

Local farmer, Sean, is in love with his best friend's wife, Anne. Realising he can never have her he forges a new romance with an American visitor, Lisa who has come to trace her family roots with a big surprise in store. Just a few days later his best friend is killed in an accident. Will he finally get it together with Anne when Lisa suspects his true feelings and flees town with another man instead.

Nancy, and her best friend Liz, come to escape their unhappy marriages. They come to realise that they'd be much happier if they just set up home together and resume where they left off with their travels when they met as air-hostesses in the seventies.

Insisted on by her traditional Aunt, Susie from Shanghai embarks on a formal courtship with local schoolteacher and long term local lothario Kevin. Has he become a changed man or is it just a matter of time before he slips into his old habits?

Fisherman and widower, Paddy, and his family are startled by the black New Yorker who appears to be stalking him. She is Sunny and is not using Franny's skills to seek a match but to find her long lost Dad.

At summer's end, all of our characters lives have changed, for better or for worse.

Sales

Target Entertainment Ltd

Since its inception in 1998 as a television distribution business, Target has grown into one of the most successful rights management companies and is ranked in the top five distributors by independent producers in the UK.

Working with leading directors, producers and writers including David Aukin, Stephen Poliakoff and Kay Mellor, Target's library including high profile movies such as Pinochet in Suburbia starring Derek Jacobi, She's Gone starring Ray Winstone and Daybreak Pictures latest release, The Trial of Tony Blair.

Alison Rayson ' CEO

Alison began her television career in 1993 at ITEL as a sales executive, and was responsible for the UK and France, helping the company develop its profile in these territories by brokering pre-sale, co-production and catalogue agreements.

In 1996, Alison was approached to set up a television distribution arm at the movie distributor Mayfair Entertainment International (now Crescent). As Director of Sales and Programming and then Managing Director, she quickly established Mayfair as an exciting independent in the UK market. In August 1998 she left to set up Target Entertainment. Under Alison's guidance Target grew into one of the UK's largest independent distribution companies and over the last couple of years she has extended the company to a full media rights management business with its own consumer products and production divisions.

Chris Rayson - Head of Home Entertainment

Chris headed his own character licensing business prior to joining Target. He joined with a brief to establish and grow the blooming licensing division, and progressed to head up the Company's global Home Entertainment Division. Chris is responsible for running Target's own-branded DVD label, a joint venture with Warner Vision, in addition to exploiting video, DVD and mobile technology rights worldwide.