Way of the Con-Artist, a true crime meta-story from Goa, India

 

For travellers, artists, adventure seekers and true-crime enthusiasts.

White Western filmmaker embroiled in an effective 10-day hostage with Confidence Artists then turns the experience into a movie, with meta-twists.

Feature-length tragi-comic docudrama exposing the techniques and psychology of Con-artists through dramatisation of the core story interwoven with the filmmaker’s narrative of how in making the film he himself felt like a con-artist – promising a world-class film but struggling in Goa with tropical conditions and a crew of one – disillusionment, abandonment and critical equipment failure among the endless challenges faced by low-budget filmmakers.

 

 

Can he deliver the high quality film that was proposed ?

Is he himself becoming a con-artist ?

 

 

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud” – Jean-Luc Godard

 

 

? Who do you trust ¿

 

 

Feature-length documentary drama featuring a “meta” framework, employing voice narration, subtitles and multi-mode animations over live action.

 

STATUS : CURRENTLY IN POST-PRODUCTION

for edit completion February 2024

 

One-page Exec.Summary on request | ~9000 word story with photographs | Audiobook version

 

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STILL FRAMES FROM THE DOCUMENTARY SHOOTS

Michael Stevenson (film producer), Michael Serwa (personal coach), Mark Button (prof. Counter Fraud Studies), anon. (filmmaker)