Pawno: Footscray pawn-shop drama-cum-rom-com is a little film with big ambitions

By Karl Quinn
Updated May 1 2016 - 10:13am, first published April 25 2016 - 10:39am
Having a lend: John Brumpton stars as pawn shop owner Les in Pawno.
Having a lend: John Brumpton stars as pawn shop owner Les in Pawno.
Cash converters: Damian Hill, writer, co-producer and co-star, and Paul Ireland, director and co-producer, of Pawno, photographed in Footscray. Photo: Justin McManus
Cash converters: Damian Hill, writer, co-producer and co-star, and Paul Ireland, director and co-producer, of Pawno, photographed in Footscray. Photo: Justin McManus

When Damian Hill and Paul Ireland were chasing money to make their movie Pawno, they ended up in the office of a lawyer who spent much of the meeting talking about his new car.

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