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The Banksy Job

Synopsis

March 2004. The artist known as Banksy illegally erects a ten-foot statue in a small square off Shaftsbury Avenue in central London. Titled 'The Drinker', this sculpture is a replica of Rodin's 'The Thinker' - with a traffic cone placed on its head. The only clue as to who put it there is a stencil on the plinth that merely says 'Banksy'. Then, one day, in broad daylight, masked thieves pull up with a flatbed truck and cart 'The Drinker' away - a reporter from a national newspaper receives a ransom note from a man calling himself AK47, claiming to represent a group of 'art terrorists' calling themselves 'ART KEIDA'.
After several years back and forth between the media, Banksy and Art Keida, it is alleged that the artist called Banksy 'arranged' for the statue to be destroyed by any means necessary... Now, after all this time, it seems that AK47 is about to breathe new life into the saga.
Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2016
Type of project: Features
Running time: 75 mins
Director: Ian Roderick Gray, Dylan Harvey
Producer: Christine Alderson, Alex Hurle, Hamish Jenkinson
Executive Producer: David Adair
Editor: Anton Short
Screenwriter: Ian Roderick Gray, Dylan Harvey
Director of Photography: Anthony Dias
Production Designer: Kate Stamp
Sound: Edwin Matthews
Principal cast: AK47, Art Keida, Giles Alderson, Andy Gibbins

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Ipso Facto Productions

Christine Alderson

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Sales Company

Metro International Entertainment

16 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Holborn
London
WC2A 3ED

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