Doomed to Failure




We had a camera and a dream. Both fell apart.
Doomed to Failure is the story of a group of aspiring filmmakers and their first film. As the title suggests, things did not go to plan.
The story was written, the actors were cast, the crew was ready, and then things started to go wrong. And when things started to go wrong, they went very wrong indeed. In fact, everything that could go wrong did go wrong for this story of three pizza delivery men.
But rather than admitting defeat, the four filmmakers involved have turned their experiences into a very funny documentary that thoroughly explores the pitfalls that face inexperienced filmmakers with broken equipment.
I’m not sure whether Doomed to Failure will encourage aspiring filmmakers to keep going in the face of adversity, or scare them away entirely – possibly both – but, as a low budget Lost in la Mancha, Doomed to Failure is unmissable.
Wednesday 29 Mar 2006 | Paul Pritchard | Documentary