Abstract
The low-budget British feature film Stella Does Tricks (1996) was developed by Ben Gibson at BFI Production with director Coky Giedroyc and producer Adam Barker. The screenplay was written by Scottish novelist A.L. Kennedy which lent the project a ‘dual nationality’. The nomadic production process needed to realize this story meant that the film's producers were able to ‘play the Lottery twice’ by applying for National Lottery funding from both the English and the Scottish Arts Councils simultaneously. Its rejection by the Arts Council of England is explained in conflicting manners by those involved. Finally the film's complicated financial background is considered in terms of notions of regional and national benefit as inflected by recent film policy in the United Kingdom.
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