Every now and then you see about a powerful and great achievement coming about purely by a stroke of luck. film director, Nick Scott is just one of these people in this subject field as he has made a film that is already attracting copious attention in the film biz. The "feelgood factor" in this story is not the story in the movie itself but the fact that the first finance made to lift the film off the ground for the broke director came from placing first an online poker tournament!
Nick Scott had found the same money difficulties for films that thousands of others in Britian. As Scott says:
Nick, who had played poker but not played online, was a choice to play poker at a buddy's home when he
was shown an online poker site.
Soon after that evening, Nick played £3 single table
satellite.
Nick and his producer, Fiona Brownlie, took the cash to form their own production company, "The Winners Productions" and paid for pre-production of a short film called "The Breaker".
Not being in that level yet, Nick and Fiona are now on the search for investment in their feature film project 'Black Box Recorder' - it took home the Panasonic script award at the Cannes Film Festival. This is a thriller about a sound artist who wakes up in the middle of a desert with a cassette player taped to his chest. The recorder told him the reasons he was there and took him on an incredible journey |