GETTING yourself on the production credits for a major movie would normally cost a bit more than a tenner.

But Bournemouth Film School graduate Nick Love is offering exactly that bung him a tenner and you'll be listed as executive producer when his next film, Outlaw, comes out next year.

"This is a real people's film," says the ever-enthusiastic Nick.

"In fact, of that tenner only about £6.50 goes to me because we post everyone a high-quality t-shirt that must take up about £3.50!"

Nick, who made his name with Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Football Factory and The Business, a trilogy of films connected to his native south London, is currently writing the script for Outlaw and hopes to raise part of its budget from a unique funding offer available through the film's website, www. outlawthemovie.com which went live on Monday (JAN30).

Three different packages, costing £10, £50 and £100, include a variety of benefits from an executive producer's credit on the DVD release, to t-shirts, sweat shirts, the chance to be an extra in the film, prize draws, exclusive screenings and production updates.

"This film will be a bit different from the other three, but I'm not running out on south London yet let's say it's a gradual departure.

"I couldn't do this kind of thing with the other films because they were about very specific groups of people gangsters, football hooligans whereas Outlaw is much broader based."

The story follows a group of five people from very different backgrounds with very specific reasons for a deep-seated discontent with life in modern Britain. They band together to try to right the things they perceive as wrong. In doing so they take control of their lives, but inevitably it all goes very wrong.

"So it's a political zeitgeist vigilante story," says Nick. "You could say there's a bit of Taxi Driver, a bit of Falling Down and loads of other films, but it's about Britain today. Like most people I have a general malaise with the Blair government, the lack of order and respect, the fact I have to turn left instead of right at the end of my street because there's a gang of listless youths sat there smoking crack. You can trace this back to the Thatcher years when she made a virtue of greed and the people that grew up then now had children, the Asbo generation, and that's what this film is about."

Nick's last film, The Business, released this week (JAN30) on DVD, held a mirror up to the wayward escapades of migr gangsters on Spain's so-called Costa Del Crime.

"On one level it's a silly shoot-em-up movie, but its subtext was all about how Britain was being changed in the early 80s. This new film expands on that. It's people saying enough is enough. What happens is the media get hold of this group and lionise them, then you get copycat groups that just add to the lawlessness. The stories are all taken from things I've read or what people have told me over the last couple of years."

Nick's previous films have been populated largely by working class males aged 18-35 who swear a lot, fight a lot, drink a lot and take lots of drugs, prompting one reviewer to label him the Undisputed King of the Chavs.

"That's right and I'm rightly proud of it. Nobody's speaking to those people and if they can identify with my films then I'm happy for that they might not call my films artistic but if they say they're &*$%ing wicked' then great. The reality of making films in Britain is that if you've got a fan club then you don't walk away from it in a hurry and if I've got a big chav fan club then I'm thrilled they identify with the work I've done. Who's to say their opinion is worth less than someone who shuffles around mumbling about Art?"