Chancers The Great Gangster Film Fraud

Documentary about a bankrupt Jordanian entrepreneur and an unemployed Irish actress who hatch a plan to scam 25m 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 selfmade microbudget gangster film director In 2011 Paul Knight makes their movie for under 100000 with a cast of soap and gangster movie stars including Danny Midwinter Marc Bannerman and Loose Womens Andrea McLean The films 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