Francesca Marie Claire

Sidney Turtlebaum is a bitter sweet comedy that tells the story of Sidney, an eccentric gay Jewish man in his seventies. To punish the world Sidney earns his living as a pickpocket and a conman - his chosen modus operandi is to gatecrash Shiva houses of mourning to steal from the gathered crowd.

Nina, a troubled teen, is fixed on an uninterrupted feast of destruction when she’s forced to confront her immortality and twisted blood lust. Trapped between light and dark, psychosis and reality, the living and the dead, she’ll stop at nothing to satiate her CRAVINGS. Every addiction has a price, and usually it’s the cost of a life. Her price will be life too…but never her own.

Best friends (and cleaners in crime) Bertha and Polly are the last two singletons of their friends group, who vow with a pinky swear to always stick together - Until Jock appears and threatens to rock their relationship with unexpected consequences.

A group of car thieves steal a car with a boot full of cocaine which leads to them unknowingly busting up a drug deal, between crime bosses, Frank Morgan and the Carbone Brothers. The Carbone brothers, itching to expand their influence into Frank's territory, see this situation as a way to declare a war on Frank. Separately, Nick Hayden has sought refuge in the UK after a terrifying ordeal with a gangster in New York City. However, through the influence of Claudia he soon finds himself ushered back into the world of underground poker. Linking these stories together is the sad tale of Charlene. A woman in her late twenties who desperately wishes to leave the sex industry behind her