One Eyed Dog Films

Sugar Daddy

This is a contemporary and original English Comedy about a father and son who move away from London to set up a traditional sweet shop in a quiet village. But their initial stock gets mixed up with a delivery for a sex shop, so they have to try and sell a collection of adult toys, DVD's and magazines to a quiet, conservative community. It turns out that there is rather more demand for their stock than they were expecting. Riddled with outlandish sub-plots, brilliant characters and set in an idyllic Cornish Community, we expect the film to be a big hit in the same vein as The Full Monty, Hot Fuzz and Love Actually.

In pre-production
Shooting October 2012
Release March 2013

Blackberry Stains

After the tragic suicide of 12- year-old schoolboy Lewis, questions arise about the circumstances of his death. The families of both Lewis and his inseparable best friend Matthew are left at a loss as to why the young boy took his life. However, Matthew soon begins to reflect on how nervous his best friend was when Lewis, Matthew and his father Daniel went blackberry picking two weeks earlier. Matthew’s worries are personified by his inability to wash the blackberry stains from his hands and his suspicions grow when finds Lewis’ handkerchief in his father’s car after the funeral. Blackberry Stains is an award winning short film, which explores a young boy’s dark discovery, and the implications it will have on both his own life and the lives of those who surround him.

Sucker for Blood

Part True Romance, part True Blood, Sucker for Blood brings a comic, indie-spirited sense of adventure into the horror genre.

Gwen is a vampire who longs for a normal life, and will give up anything to make that happen.

Dennis is a normal guy who will do anything to save his dying wife, even if it means giving up his humanity.

Dennis captures Gwen forcing her to turn him into one of her kind, an immortal vampire.

Little does Dennis know that he is opening up a whole can of worms, as the realm of vampires is governed by The Organization, a corporation set up to monitor the underworld.

When The Organization finds out about Gwen’s begrudging transformation of Dennis into an Immortal, the ugly side of the corporation is revealed.

Meanwhile Dennis and Zoe, his newly immortal wife, realize that they can’t avoid the system causing them to run from The Organization. Gwen is told that she will be granted permission to go through with her vampire exorcism if she finds Dennis and ends his reckless killing spree. A dangerous game of cat-and-mouse unfolds as Gwen is forced to find Dennis and return him to The Organization in exchange for a cure to her unwanted immortality.

Gwen, with the help of Pete and Moe, the Organizational hit men, thus embark on a manhunt in order to find Dennis and “take him out”. Once The Organization finds Dennis a fight ensues, which results in his wife being killed, sending him on a vengeful murdering rampage.

Determined to put an end to the chaos, Gwen decides to put her desires to be human aside in an attempt to make everything right again.

Deaducation

After contaminated yellow #2 pencils from China infect a small town High School on Standardised Test day, a mismatched group of teenagers in detention find themselves confronted by zombie-like creatures that used to be their classmates. With only a hard drinking, chain-smoking, 1960s throw-back for adult supervision, the group must band together to survive the army of Dead Heads. What ensues is an explosion-filled, hormone-fuelled, gore fest. As they battle the infected students, the teens soon discover each other’s hidden depths, form new friendships and even romance begins to blossom.

Israel Lost

2022 sees quite a different Israel. The balance of power has shifted through the influence of the world powers. Palestine has grown, become incredibly wealthy as a tax haven and spread into Israeli lands. Now Israel is a small entity surrounding Tel Aviv, the people live in ghettos and struggle to find drinking water. There is still fighting, but now it is done underground and in secrecy by the seemingly underdog Israelis in order not to rile the powers that observe the uneasy truce both countries have agreed to.
We follow the children of the two countries' leaders as they seek to restore peace to the region. A tragic love story riddled with heated political messages.

In pre-production

House of Culture

House of Culture is based on the events of 2002 when a theatre in the centre of Moscow, with over 900 people in the audience, was taken over by Islamic terrorists. The terrorists asked for Anna Politkovskaya. Anna was born in NYC, a famous and very outspoken journalist who for years was covering the war in the break away Islamic republic of Chechnya. She was in Washington trying to convince politicians to do something about the violation of human rights in Chechnya when she heard the request, she flew immediately to Moscow.
Once inside the theatre under siege, Anna begins to realise that something is not right. She begins to suspect that the Russian secret service might be somehow connected to the attack.
As Anna searches for the truth behind this act of terror, the Russian secret service refuse to negotiate and are planning the rescue operation to storm the building. Having become an inconvenience for both sides and with only one wish-to save human lives, Anna puts her own life in jeopardy.
During the rescue operation a secret gas was used as a result of which 130 people died. Anna worked hard to prove what she already knew. She continued to investigate the case that others would not dare to do. She was later killed but her murderers or, perhaps, more importantly, those who ordered her killing have never been found. Who were the powers in government behind all of this?
We hold the rights to Anna Politovskaya's articles published about this event. In addition, this project has the full support of the families of those killed as a result of the siege.
The amount of material researched for this screenplay, including many exclusive and not widely available documents, is unparalleled.

In pre-production

The Arrival

Ten year-old Elisa was evacuated along with thousands of other Jewish children just before the Second World War on the Kinder transport trains. During that train journey she is separated from her older brother, Otto. Even now, 70 years on, she struggles to come to terms with the fact he will not be on the next train into Liverpool Street Station.
As the story unfolds, we see the deepening effect and confusion caused within a mind that begins to fragment with signs of the onset of dementia.
As the confusion and memories collide, Elisa is helped and befriended by a young Palestinian man, Saheed, himself trying to escape a tragic past. Saheed, a recent immigrant and station cleaner, tries to unravel why she is there.
The story has clear resonances with the past but also very much with the present as evacuations of children and forced exile is very much part of our current world.

In pre-production

Trader

Carter, a mid-20s banker sits in an interview room, anxious, confused and covered in blood. He’s linked to four deaths. He struggles to remember recent events after the apparent physical conflict he’s been in. He starts telling his tale from an early period at university and how he met his wife. This helps him regain his memory. The story soon shows us how he rapidly becomes the star-performer at his investment banking company and his ambition soon overtakes the importance of his family commitments. Greed and ambition seduces Carter and he unknowingly mixes with gangsters as he delves in to the illegal world of inside trading. The emotional events of his wife leaving with their child and the jarring perspective 9/11 put on most peoples’ lives, Carter gives himself up. This affects his criminal contact who seek revenge by killing Carter’s wife and son. Carter races to save them and dies in the process. His interview concludes with St Peter judging Carter’s realisation, repentance and endeavours to save others while uncaring for himself, means he gets his redemption and avoids hell.

Cutter

When Amanda and her friends discover a decaying boat run aground in the secluded bayou, they think they have found the ideal party spot. Unbeknowest to them the boat is home to Cutter, a disturbed loner with a tortured past and a body covered with self-inflicted scars. Cutter is driven to defend his home against the unwanted visitors who fight back…but are brutally dispatched and added to his macabre collection rotting in his meat locker. When local law- enforcement arrive to investigate the missing students, they will be put to the test and tempted by lust, greed and the lure of forgotten fortune. Their final decisions will decide who lives, who dies and whether or not truth will finally be revealed.

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Entombed

Inspired by real events, Entombed is an intelligent romantic drama that explores the nature of love, its pain, pleasure and ability to endure against incredible adversity. As other memorable films such as Atonement, The Reader and The English Patient, Entombed effectively uses war as both setting and catalyst within an epic love story. Set in Germany and Poland during WW2, the story centres on lovers Hans and Ericka who are separated when Hans and his fellow soldiers become trapped in a subterranean cavern in Gdynia. The plot follows them as they both fight to survive, reunite and shows how their love for one another remains strong. Over time a love triangle develops when Ericka meets a British Army officer Marlowe. This sets the stage for a tangled web of rivalry, longing and hope between the three main characters.

The Old Hag Syndrome

A horrifying story of a young woman named Annette Chambers who has been suffering from the same reoccurring nightmare of her beloved twin sister’s death for the last twenty years. These nightmares are traumatic reminders of the loss and heartache she still struggles to accept on a daily basis. But she doesn’t realize that the real nightmare has just begun. While trying desperately to get her life in order and making ends meet by working at a coffeehouse with her good friend Tara Cline, it’s at work that she is approached by Alex Mathews, a cryptic stranger that warns Annette that her sister did not die of natural causes, and she’s now in danger of being murdered the same way, by an ancient evil that dwells between dreams and reality. Annette dismisses Alex’s warning and that night her nightmare becomes a reality when she awakens to a horrific attack by an unseen entity. Her doctor tries to explain it as a common condition where a person wakes up, they can not move, or scream, accompanied by terrifying audio and visual hallucinations. This diagnosis of “Sleep Paralysis” failed to explain the bruises on her body from the assault. After she learns that her ex-boyfriend was murdered in his sleep, she is once again approached by Alex Mathews, who tries to inform her that sleep paralysis is nothing more than a modern medical term for what every culture throughout history has called, “The Old Hag.” Now this evil is after revenge for the sins of her estranged father who captured and killed one of these demonic spirits, and only Alex knows how to save her. Her distrust towards Alex leaves her alone and frightened to fall asleep, until all reality begins to fall apart around her, and she awakens to find herself trapped within a mental hospital. Where the nightmare continues to bleed away all sense of sanity, which leads her and Alex into a final confrontation with the Old Hag, a struggle where the only hope for their salvation is either death or madness.

Original Sinner

Series overview

Blowing dust off the bedroom keyhole of the most iconic women in history, Original Sinner is a new style original sexography - a response to our time's fascination with sex and celebrities. The show will focus on the sexual needs and desires of twelve unforgettable women who proved that only by bending the rules a mark is made.

Each episode will take us into the bedroom of one of the most powerful women in history and reveal her relationship with the strongest force of nature - her sexuality. Original Sinner will release the human beneath the myth and show, for the first time on television, what sex really meant to the women you thought you knew. How was it practiced and how was it reflected to the public? What details of their sex lives have been skewed, hidden and misinterpreted?

In a tone where Sex and the City meets John Adams each episode will entertain with raunchy dramatisations, provoke discussion through light-hearted expert interviews and move its audience by delving into the most intimate area of these captivating women's lives.

The programme looks at the following women separately over twelve one-hour episodes:

• Cleopatra
• Jackie Kennedy Onassis
• Marilyn Monroe
• Audrey Hepburn
• Queen Victoria
• Coco Chanel
• Catherine the Great
• Pocahontas
• Empress Wu Zetian
• Marie Antoinette
• Lady Godiva
• Lady Churchill

In Development with the BBC

Tapeworm

Series Overview

An apathetic, carefree young man finds an oversized semi-humanoid Tapeworm coming out of his ass. Life as he knows it, or rather ignores it, is about to change as the Tapeworm is all Tommy has suppressed: unpredictable, unique, full of extreme desires while demanding satisfaction! In a dozed off, homogenous parody of our own world, the pair experiences one crazy adventure after another while being chased by state agents on a mission to kill anything that is original.

Behind closed doors secrets are swept under the rug and fantasies are forgotten among comfy cushions. In a world of content pill poppers and stuffed fast food junkies, what you don’t know won’t hurt you! But what if not only what you secretly dream of, but also the craziness you didn’t know you had in you would suddenly surface from your unconscious? What if we push the limits of the imaginable even further and your urges come alive in the form of a living breathing impulsive creature? What if you can never get rid of it because it’s coming out of your ass in the form of an oversized Tapeworm?! Let us introduce the unusual heroes of a daring animated series - Tommy and the Tapeworm, a surprising re-invention of the classic opposite pair whose love and hate relationship against the backdrop of a dozed off society, offer endless comic possibilities to entertain the audience.

Only one step above a vegetable, young Tommy indulges in the same apathetic bubble engulfing the entire society. In pale and clean cut surroundings, ordinary humans living like lemmings give another meaning to the living dead. Children will find their mechanical behaviour and terse speech strange to the point of laughter and adults will be amusingly struck by the absurd parody of their own world. With the sudden appearance of the Tapeworm nothing will ever be the same and things will definitely get out of control! Tommy’s alter-ego claims attention and satisfaction. There is no limit to what the Tapeworm can be and how far his lack of conformity will go.

In 12 episodes of 30 minutes each, in a tone where Southpark meets Invader Zim, we discover how the Tapeworm’s change of moods, crazy actions and out-of-this-world mischief put the pair in one absurd and hilarious situation after the other. We can never predict how he will behave or feel but we can always be sure that it will be extreme.

In Development with the BBC

The Passenger

Series Overview

Blending the mystery of Lost, the real world fantasy of True Blood and the mythology of Rome, The Passenger is a modern and deeply mysterious retelling of the myth of the Ancient Greek ferryman of the dead. The ferryman transported the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx to Hades, the land of the dead.

In a curious variation on the classic myth, in the 21st Century the ferryman now exists as the driver of a London black cab. Now, instead of rowing the souls of the dead to Hades in a skiff boat, he drives them through the busy streets of London.

Into this world of dark fantasy is thrown The Passenger, Mike Chandler, a British soldier, missing and presumed dead in Afghanistan. He finds himself slumped in the back of the mysterious ferryman’s speeding taxicab.

Forced by John Kharon, the ferryman, to adopt his role, the passenger becomes the driver, lost in a world he doesn’t understand. Uncertain whether he is dead or alive, Chandler is trapped in a world between worlds that he must unravel.

This series is about what happens at the crossover of worlds, the world of the living and the land of the dead, the world of ancient Greco- Roman mythology and the world we live in now.