Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud (2016) - Double Feature

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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.


Main Cast: Tony Carling, Paul Knight, Jonathan Sothcott, Freddie Foreman, Danny Young, Mel Mills

Director: Ben Lewis

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Editor: Simon Barker

Cinematographer: Tom Swindell


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