Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.
Charles Gormley
as Charlie
Neville Smith
as Neville
Anne Zelda
as Anne
David Stone
as A Distributor
Suzanne Danielle
as Sue
Ron Taylor
as American Director
Wim Wenders
as Another Director
Stephen Frears
as Biscuit Man
Jim Haines
as Professor of Sexual Politics
Maurice Bulbulian
as French-Canadian Director
William Forsythe
as Bille
Alan Bennett
as Neville's Doctor
