NOT so long ago, would-be film producers Kieran Parker and Arabella Page Croft had doors closed in their faces whenever they tried to pitch ideas to executives. Now Hollywood studios are chasing the Glasgow-based pair begging for details of the projects they currently have on the drawing board. "Last week we had phone calls from Sony, Warner Brothers, Pathé, Content, all saying, ‘When are your scripts ready and what have you got for us?’" says Page Croft, who is Parker’s partner in both senses of the word. The dramatic change in their industry status is due to a low-budget horror movie about Nazi zombies that used Dumfriesshire to double for Eastern Europe and got made only because the pair could not get the cash together for other more prestigious film projects. Outpost recouped its £1.2 million budget even before anyone had seen the finished version, when Sony bought UK and US rights on the strength of 15 minutes of footage. It has already been released on DVD in the US, where it not only received positive reviews, but also prompted a serious internet debate about the logic and viability of the secret Nazi experiments at the heart of the story. Read the rest of the Article here
