Film Hub Wales’s Made in Wales Officer Radha Patel sat down to talk about Welsh westerns with screen writer Matt Redd and Director Ryan Andrew Hooper. Their darkly-comic thriller – The Toll, about a lone toll-booth operator with a past that is fast catching up with him, will be released in the UK on August 27ed.
They’re joined by Lewis Carter and Kristian Kane who co-directed Showdown (written by Carter) which will be screening alongside The Toll in select cinemas. Showdown is a short film about a young autistic boy with a passion for western films who is faced with a showdown for the soul of his village, in the local corner shop.