Swipe fires up 'Fire' biz

Frank Mannion's Swipe Films has offered questionable clerical sex abuse pic "Beyond the Fire," for the BBC for Blighty, Pretty Pictures for Gaul and Ireland's TV3. Helmer-scribe Maeve Murphy's pic stars Cara Seymour ("InstructionInch) and Scot Williams as kids of sexual abuse whose relationship is jeopardized due to their condition of denial, together with other dark secrets they have hidden for any very long time. The BBC will broadcast "Beyond the Fire" this year, which Murphy describes as "a good chance to pay attention to the issue of religious sexual abuse, that's presently emerging inside the U.K." Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com