Prolific Middlesbrough-based filmmaker Joseph Tan releases his latest film next week.

Starring Craig Samson and James Woods, Question of Faith is a ten minute short about a priest who’s in cahoots with the local mob. Samson (who you may recall from Tom Marshall’s Daddy’s Girl) plays likeable Priest Jimmy who’s in it up to his neck. He owes them money and it’s James Woods as hit-man Finn who’s sent in to sort him out. Except Finn makes a deal with Jimmy. If he wins the deal he lives. If he loses, he dies. What the deal is exactly, you’ll have to watch the film to find out.

Question of Faith was shot in the Tollesby area of Middlesbrough last week. While in filmmaker Joseph Tan’s own words it’s ‘twisted’, the script’s regarded as Gore Cartoons’ most serious film since the 2006 feature Time To Kill! It’s been funded by St Mary’s Sixth Form College (who helped with the shoot) and is being used as a live project to teach media students how to edit.

Question of Faith can be viewed on the Gore Cartoons website from next Monday 1st December.