Film Funding Blog

Monday, September 18, 2006

Poker Pays Off for Independent Filmmaker Author: Ian McKenzie
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http://www.bluffmagazine.com/news/newsArticle.asp?newsID=1101278

It’s the kind of storyline you would see in a film – but one online poker win means that a new film will make it to the big screen.

“We’re pretty sure that ours is the first film to be entirely funded by online poker winnings” says film director Nick Scott, who turned to poker after being frustrated by the lack of official film funding. “It’s difficult for British filmmakers to fund their projects. We had a great script and just wanted to make the thing, but it was going to take us months to raise the cash ourselves.”