'Dream On' team turn to crowdfunding to complete film started in 2013

The team behind sports film Dream On have turned to crowdfunding platform Indiegogo after one of the film’s major backers, Sirk Acquisitions and Management PLC, were served with a winding-up petition halfway through filming.

The shoot originally began in May 2013 at Elstree Studios and was scheduled to run for six weeks with a budget of $3.9m (£2.5m).

However, the project was paused four weeks later in June when it was hit with the news that Sirk Acquisitions and Management PLC, which had planned to run a golf tournament called The Dream On Challenge alongside the film’s release, would not be providing funding.

The film, based on John Richardson’s novel Dream On: One Hacker’s Challenge to Break Par in a Year, tells the story of a non-professional golfer attempting to play a level-par round of golf within one year.

Farren Blackburn (Hammer Of The Gods) wrote the film’s screenplay and is also directing. Richard Coyle (Pusher) is playing the film’s lead. Mark Pegg is producing for his company Artifice Entertainment.

Filming was taking place at Elstree Studios, though this has now been paused until the rest of the funds can be raised, with $616,000 (£400,000) needed to finish the film.