PROTEIN
DISCOVERY SCREEN 1
SATURDAY 24 AUGUST - 6.00 PM
Director: Tony Burke.
With: Craig Russell, Andrea Hall, Charles Dale, Ross O’Hennessy.
UK 2024. 100 mins.
FIRST BLOOD - WORLD PREMIERE - Based on his 2014 short film of the same name, award-winning film, content and music video director Tony Burke makes his feature debut with a grim chiller about a traumatised ex-squaddie and serial killer returning to South Wales to escape his demons. There Sion (Craig Russell, CANARIES), becomes work-out and gym-obsessed and eats a local drug dealer for their protein. Compelled to kill again he sends shockwaves through the local criminal underworld and inadvertently sparks a brutal and bloodthirsty tit-for-tat turf war between rival gangs. Soon the bloody events set Sion on an unlikely road to redemption.
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