AN up-and-coming movie maker has high hopes for the future as a music video he shot in Kidderminster with a budget of "nothing" is set to be shown at the largest film festival in the world.

Weak 13's music video, When You Say When, will be watched by around 9,000 people at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, including movers and shakers from the film and music industries.

The man behind and in front of the camera, director and co-producer, Wayne Davies, hopes it could hold the key to his future.

The Kidderminster 25-year-old, who funds making films with work as a security guard, told the Shuttle/Times & News he was saving up to travel to the showing in Las Vegas in July and he hoped the trip - if it happened - could mark the start of a new life in America.

"It's quite a buzz," said the former Kidderminster College drama student, who completed a film degree at Worcester University last July and also writes his own scripts.

"It's film directing that I want to do and I'm hoping this will be my chance to get a visa and move to the States but it's just one thing at a time.

"Because it's the first festival we've ever entered it in, it's a hit and miss situation.

"I don't really mind whether it gets noticed or not because there's always next year and it's something to put on my CV."

He explained he paid $800 - around £430 - for the digital video to be shown in New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles and the exciting journey started when he searched on the web for "film festivals in general" and the largest in the world was flagged up.

"I filled in a form, around four weeks ago, and they phoned back a couple of days later, asking questions like how much it cost to make - which was nothing at all," he said.

"Then they left it to me to finish the film. I sent it off and it's been accepted."

Weak 13 frontman, Nick Townsend, who co-produced the film and is hoping to accompany Wayne to Las Vegas, said: "If it helps the band out that's great but I'd much prefer it if it could get Wayne into the film industry because he's a very talented man and deserves to be successful."

He added: "It's almost like a CV for him, saying if you give me a budget to make a movie it would be amazing because, in two and a half minutes, he can do so much."