THE BOY WHO SAID NOTHING

Director/Producer

Script written by James F Simpson based on the best selling book ‘The Boy Who said Nothing’ by Mirsad Solakovic and Cass Pennant.

A boy’s emotional journey from war-torn Bosnia to the UK dealing with PSTD after witnessing unimaginable horror and yet he still finds hope

BREAKFAST IN BEIRUT

Associate Producer

Written by Tala Osseiran Calil

This is the story of Lana, a young Lebanese woman who returns to Beirut to see her estranged dying father for the first time after he’s driven her away from her homeland with her mother twenty years ago.Lana discovers a great deal about family she never knew about, and the journey helps her discover even more about herself.

Filming in Bulgaria and Beirut. Filming January 2021

ONE FOR THE GIRLS

Producer

Written by James F Simpson and Denise Van Outen

Stephanie Canworth in her early forties, CEO and founder of an international Lingerie Brand has a mid life crisis when she goes with her best friend Sam and three other girlfriends to Ibiza to celebrate Sam’s fortieth birthday. Being away with her friends Stephanie questions her happiness, her relationship, and her busy life. She reconnects with the Island she visited with her best friend twenty years before and relives the memories. She finds out that her first ever love in her life, twenty years ago, is also on the Island.

It is a journey where she touches her real feelings and faces emotions from the past that she has never dealt with. It is fun and laughter and explores what can happen to women when they all get together and question their lives post 4o! – Definitely ‘One for the Girls’ !!!!

Filming in Ibiza and London.

LOVE AND PRIDE

Director/Producer

Written by James F Simpson

Natalie Marshall, 37, has been in a loving relationship with vivacious Mandy McLoud, 26, for nearly three years. Natalie is about to become a senior partner in a London city law firm and Mandy is the manager of a piano bar in Smithfield. They live together is an apartment in Canary Wharf. Everything in their relationship is wonderful and they decide, on a weekend away to Amsterdam, to have a baby together. The only issue they have in their relationship, is that Natalie has kept their relationship a secret from her work colleagues, because she is worried being gay might effect her becoming a senior partner in the law firm. This infuriates Mandy in that she feels that their relationship only exists when they’re together. This explodes when Natalie goes alone to the company ball.

Add a love child from a one night stand, and their relationship is thrown into chaos. A perfect relationship in an imperfect world.

Filming in London and Amsterdam

HOPE

Director/Producer

James F Simpson

Hope is a documentary about how the biggest sport in the world ‘football’ can break down social international barriers and give disenfranchised youth ‘hope’ , steering them away from radicalization or crime. It will explore how football can give young people the opportunity to understand and communicate with others and help communities find common ground and dialogue to unite each other in peace.

Filming in Nigeria, Pakistan, Cambodia, China, Jordan and the UK