Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud (2016)

Crime Documentary

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.

Updated May 15 2016

Keywords:

fraud filmmaker film within a film arab low budget film

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Runtime: 85 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Jonathan Sothcott

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Cast

Jonathan Sothcott

Paul Knight

Mel Mills

Danny Young

Tony Carling

Narrator

Freddie Foreman

Crew

Ben Lewis

Director

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Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud (2016)

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Cast

Jonathan Sothcott

Paul Knight

Mel Mills

Danny Young

Tony Carling

Narrator

Freddie Foreman

Crew

Ben Lewis

Director

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