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The Pitch
A smuggler in India involves a woman from the World
Health Organization in his mounting list of problems
when a bag containing a million dollars worth of opium
is substituted for his at a train station.
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After a corpse appears in his hotel room police, drug dealers and thugs chase
them across India to the ashram of his partner, a guru with an herbal cure for
hemorrhoids, worth more than the opium.
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A UK-India-Australia co-production
Budget US Dollars 10.5 million
Start date September 2011
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Writer/Director
Robert MacLean
Last film “Emma Blue” with Costas Mandylor, budget USD 1 million
Silver Lei Award – Honolulu Int’l. Film Festival
Best Int’l. Feature – Heart of England Int’l Film Festival
Best Foreign Comedy – Atlanta Underground
Invited to 12 other Festivals incl. Shanghai, Strasbourg & Cannes
Independent
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Financing:
US Dollars 10.5 million (100%)
How?
30.7% – Australia / 54.3% – U.K. / 15% – India
Australian Funding
$1.5m – Screen Australia direct investment
$1m – cash-flowed 40% Producer Offset
$724k – domestic pre-sales and Gap financing