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Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud

2016-01-24
7
en 85m
CrimeDocumentary
Documentary about a bankrupt Jordanian entrepreneur and an unemployed Irish actress who hatch a plan to scam £2.5m off the British taxman by faking the production of a £20m movie. But they are found out, arrested and then bailed. While out on bail, they decide to prove their innocence by actually making a film. They hire a former nightclub bouncer, now a self-made micro-budget gangster film director. In 2011, Paul Knight makes their movie for under £100,000 with a cast of soap and gangster movie stars including Danny Midwinter, Marc Bannerman and Loose Women's Andrea McLean. The film's title is A Landscape of Lies. But the cinematic alibi does not convince the jury when the trial runs in 2013. The producers are convicted of tax fraud and given long sentences.

Director

Ben Lewis

Director of Photography

Tom Swindell

Editor

Simon Barker

Sound

Merlin Bonning

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Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America

Companies

  • BBC
  • Rise Films
  • Splice Post