Regional film director and Producers' Forum member Humaira Shah recently completed her promo for feature film, 'Fleeced' here in Birmingham. She'd love fellow filmmakers to take a look and the link is below:

www.vimeo.com/4420375

Film Synopsis:
Three rules for a successful bank job; never work with animal costumes, under-cover police officers or men smeared with copious amounts of Vaseline.

After two years of customer service, RAY (26) snaps, assaults a customer and gets fired. It’s time to get back to what he knows best: crime. Ray needs cash to resume his previous career as a conman. Unfortunately, his years of playing it straight have left him with a nasty case of morals. He bumps into the beautiful EMILIA and picks her pocket, but changes his mind and picks her up instead.

Ray tries a different approach. He seeks out BARNEY, a psychopathic old friend with absolutely no concept of morals or decency and a particular distaste for gerbils. Barney takes Ray to see THE PANTHER, a leading figure in the local underworld who needs a crew for a bank job.

So far, so good.

Unfortunately Barney neglected to mention that The Panther genuinely believes himself to be a large cat; that The Panther’s son, FREDDIE, never changes his underwear and has a body odour which can kill squirrels; and that Ray, Barney and the rest of the crew have to rob the bank dressed as giant furry animals.

If this isn’t bad enough Ray learns his old nemesis, the dogged INSPECTOR BRIGGS, is hot on his trail. Briggs has hated Ray for years and is determined to catch him whatever the cost.

At least Ray’s date with Emilia goes well. Too bad he doesn’t know she’s Briggs’ daughter.

Things go from bad to worse when Freddie tries to engage Ray in naked wrestling, the bank job turns into a massacre and Ray discovers none of his fellow bank robbers are actually bank robbers. As the film unfolds, they gradually reveal themselves to be: an undercover cop; a reporter; and a priest, hell bent on saving Barney’s soul.

Before long, Ray finds himself under siege from the police whilst falling in love and trying to keep himself out of the papers, prison - or worse.