Shooters

The film is set in Liverpool. Its subject is the criminal world of the city. There are no professional actors in it. The people in front of the camera came from that world. They played out scenes close to their own lives. All that existed on paper was a short outline. No dialogue was written and the scenes were improvised. That leaves the picture between documentary and fiction. The speech and the places are left as they are. The story looks at how that world works day to day. Who expects what from whom, and how accounts get settled. The method of shooting is what it became known for. It was made for a film company. John Wayland and Desmond Bayliss appear in the seventy one minute film, a British production Dan Reed finished in 2001.