The Money Shot

A “Fearless Dreamer” FILM
WRITTEN BY Matthew David Hopkins

INT. YOUR COMPUTER – NO CLUE WHAT TIME IT IS

What is the price of believing in your dreams?
A team of young and avid Film-Makers find themselves faced with that very question after being rejected by yet another funding body in New Zealand. Determined to find the funds needed to see their film made, they concoct a “truly ridiculous” plan to break into the National Reserve Bank, and “borrow” just enough money to see their masterpiece come to life. (After all, it’s not as if there’s a project out there that they can enter in order to win the money. I mean stuff like that just doesn’t happen in real life.)
As their plan begins to take shape, they begin to realize that this is in fact, a truly ridiculous idea and are forced to seek out other alternatives.
One of the team makes an ill advised decision and borrows the money they need from one of New Zealand’s most notorious loan sharks. A decision that comes back to haunt them, as the loan shark – being a wicked swine – decides to claim back on his loan early. He sends his goons to steal all of the gear purchased for the shooting of their film.
And if that isn’t bad enough, he also demands that they repay the loan in full, or they will meet some very grizzly ends. (And not like a bear, more like a bullet in the chest.)

Now they are left with no option but to revisit their original scheme, and forge the plan to break into the bank. But being film-makers and not members of M.I.6, they don’t really know what they are doing, and base the entire operation on some of the great heist films such as: Mission Impossible, The Italian Job and Ocean’s 11 to name a few.
If it worked in the movies, it’s got to work in real life. Right? Umm…

Sometimes, life doesn’t quite follow the Script.