Amy Bowden

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.

A young mum runs away with her son to a woodland hut community in Scotland.

A group of people become interconnected by their shared memories, mirrored lives and consciousness.

A teenager defies her mother by training in secret for a town’s dangerous tradition to try and live up to her brother’s past successes.

After his eldest son is murdered in a gangland hit, an absentee father desperately tries to protect what’s left of the shattered family he abandoned.

A short film that follows Rachel, a young woman on a night out with her best friends and her crush, that changes her life irreversibly.

The Nest is a Cathy Come Home story for Generation Rent; a warning tale of how quickly social harmony can break down when people are pushed out to the sidelines. Janine is a single mother struggling to raise her children at odds with the local community. And her daughter Clemy is an angry teenager trying to assert her growing independence. This tense environment is exacerbated by the fact they are living illegally in a squatted house. After being evicted the family is forced to confront their growing sense of resentment and frustration at the world around them.