A zero-budget film about making a zero-budget film that somehow got Wim Wenders. Meta before meta was cool.
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.
Acting
Gormley and Smith's barely-fictional bickering feels documentary-real.
Direction
Hatton blurs reality so hard you forget what's staged.
Director
Maurice Hatton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bill Forsyth appears before making 'Gregory's Girl'; this might be the most Scottish film ever assembled.
The 1977 North Sea oil boom funded wild dreams like this — and crushed twice as many.
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