Craig Russell Stars in British Action Thriller ‘The Priest’ as Cornwall Shoot Wraps (EXCLUSIVE)
Russell (“Protein,” “Queen Cleopatra”), repped by Felix de Wolfe, plays a parish priest whose buried past resurfaces when a woman from his old life...
Key points
- Russell (“Protein,” “Queen Cleopatra”), repped by Felix de Wolfe, plays a parish priest whose buried past resurfaces when a woman from his old life arrives at his confessional.
- “For me, the film is about the distance between who we have been and who we want to become, and about the cost of trying to build a new self on unstable ground.” Noel Goodwin, Martin McQuillan and Kingsley Marshall also serve as producers on the film, alongside Chee Keong Cheung of the British action studio Action Xtreme.
- “The Priest” is the first feature to emerge from the MA Feature Filmmaking course, led by producer Martin McQuillan, a post-graduate program based within Falmouth University’s School of Film & Television, where students partner with Action Xtreme to write, shoot and complete features within the action genre.
- “‘The Priest’ is exactly the kind of work this course was built to produce – a fully professional feature film, made to industry standards by a crew of over 60 emerging filmmakers who have earned every frame of it,” said Kingsley Marshall, head of the School of Film & Television.
What happened
Russell (“Protein,” “Queen Cleopatra”), repped by Felix de Wolfe, plays a parish priest whose buried past resurfaces when a woman from his old life arrives at his confessional. “For me, the film is about the distance between who we have been and who we want to become, and about the cost of trying to build a new self on unstable ground.” Noel Goodwin, Martin McQuillan and Kingsley Marshall also serve as producers on the film, alongside Chee Keong Cheung of the British action studio Action Xtreme. “The Priest” is the first feature to emerge from the MA Feature Filmmaking course, led by producer Martin McQuillan, a post-graduate program based within Falmouth University’s School of Film & Television, where students partner with Action Xtreme to write, shoot and complete features within the action genre. “‘The Priest’ is exactly the kind of work this course was built to produce – a fully professional feature film, made to industry standards by a crew of over 60 emerging filmmakers who have earned every frame of it,” said Kingsley Marshall, head of the School of Film & Television. Goodwin, an Action Xtreme executive producer who also oversees talent development and formerly ran the BFI...
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