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Friday, April 19, 2024

Film Industry Scam Features in Tom Waller’s ‘Kiss of the Con Queen’

France’s Swift Prods. and Japan’s Yaman Films have come on board “Kiss of the Con Queen,” a new fact-based feature film directed by Thailand’s Tom Waller.

The script was written by Bangkok-based Irish actor Eoin O’Brien (“The Last Full Measure”), who was a victim of Indonesian con artist Hargobind Tahilramani’s elaborate film industry scam.

Nicknamed the “Con Queen of Hollywood,” Tahilramani, an Indonesian food blogger, had been impersonating Hollywood executives such as Kathleen Kennedy and Amy Pascal, and promised roles in movies that never existed. He was arrested in the U.K. in 2020, after an FBI investigation that uncovered the extent of the scam.

Tahilramani is currently awaiting an extradition trial, which was recently delayed and is now expected to take place in November.

Waller, who directs, produces and provides location services in Thailand…

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