Film Productions
In August 2007, Money-Coutts travelled to Kenya with his school friend and fellow performer Tom Lyon to film Kenyan Conjurations: the School Built By Magic, a DVD documentary released early in 2008 and sold to raise funds to build a primary school on the Kenyan coast. The project has raised over ₤17,000 to date.
In August 2008, Money-Coutts travelled again with Tom Lyon to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics, where the pair filmed their second DVD together.
In January 2010, Money-Coutts travelled to India to film his third film project, a work titled Hindi'licious - A Magical Mecca Unto the Taj. Produced in association with the Rajasthan charity Seva Mandir, Money-Coutts was featured on both local news channels and the national channel ETV - broadcast to over 30 million people across northern India.
In August 2010, Money-Coutts spent a month in Tanzania, both performing and investigating the widespread beliefs in witchcraft. The short film, Tanzanian Devil - The Dark Truths B'hind the African Witchdoctors, was released on the internet on 26 October 2010. In February 2011, the film was featured on Derren Brown's blog with an article detailing the witchcraft issues in Tanzania and Swaiziland.
In February 2011, Money-Coutts took to Bangkok to work and study alongside the card cheats and card artists of the city. The resulting short film, Thai-Boo, Cardsharks of Sin City, was released to the internet on 9 March 2011. In addition to footage of the local cardsharks, the film also explains the story of The Expert at the Card Table, the classic card-cheating treatise written in 1902 by S. W. Erdnase.
In January 2012, following the murder and ritual sacrifice of a young girl in southern India, Money-Coutts returned to the country to film the short film, Why Do We Believe?, which looked at why human beings today still believe in superstitions, rituals and beliefs in the face of modern-day technology and evidence.
In May 2012 Money-Coutts travelled to the supposed birthplace of magic, Egypt, in order to film his fifth solo short film, "DMC: What is Magic?". Staying in Cairo whilst the city was under military curfew, owing to the ongoing unrest after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution - the film seeks to find quite what magic really means today after so many thousands of years of development.
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