CHARACTERS AND FILMS

Over the course of his career Russ has created many amazing and diverse characters, with plenty more to come.
This page pays tribute to some of those wonderful characters we all know and love.
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Project: The Projectionist (Post-Production)

Character Name: Jacob

Synopsis:

An NYPD Detective Lieutenant sets out to unearth the mystifying events leading to the cryptic suicide of a recently returned POW suffering from PTSD, and the motive behind the four inconceivable murders he committed prior to taking his own life.

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Project: Against the Wall

Character Name: Adam

Synopsis:

In a futuristic city, a man and his girlfriend break into an abandoned hi-tech game park.

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Project: Blue Collar Boys

Character Name: Slim

Synopsis:

A 27-year-old construction worker must take over his father's business in order to save his family. Motivated by financial hardship, Red and his lifelong friends fall into a lifestyle of hatred and thirst for revenge. Together, they are faced with a dilemma that will test their morals, faith, and ultimately, their loyalties to each other. In a world that refuses to let the working man thrive, they want a better way. .

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Project: Cross Lines (Short)

Character Name: David

Synopsis:

David's nightly ritual is interrupted when a stranger enters his work space - eluding to their fated union to be and work together.

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Donner Pass

Character Name: Jed

Synopsis:

Donner Pass has a well-known and macabre history - the place where George Donner and his party got stuck in the winter of 1846 and were forced to resort to cannibalism to keep from starving. But what if it wasn't just history?

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Project: London Betty

Character Name: Volgo The Russian

Synopsis:

Betty has moved across the pond to become a real life American reporter, but when her first story assignment turns out to be just another fluff piece she begins to think twice about the move. Discouraged and looking for allies Betty forms an unlikely bond with the neighbourhood thieves and together they set out to investigate the town's crooked Mayor. Betty might just get her first real news story, but she'll have to be in cahoots with thieves to get it.

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Project: The Children of Fleeting Light

Character Name: Christian

Synopsis:

Modern day Shakespeare.

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Project: The Land of College Prophets

Character Name: 'Irish' Jonah Joe

Synopsis:

Two belligerent college students accidentally reactivate a toxic wishing well, setting off a series of events that brings havoc to a small community.

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Project: Williamsburg

Character Name: Brother James

Synopsis:

Welcome to WILLIAMSBURG: the hip, upstart, intellectual mecca of New York City, the land where people would rather be artists than make art. Williamsburg is a voyeuristic picture about seven 'artists' living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and their comical, usually absurd, intertwining lives.

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Project: 10,000 A.D.: The Legend of a Black Pearl

Character Name: Fari

Synopsis:

Far into the future after the world has brought about the apocalypse what remains of humanity has split into two warring tribes - but now a new enemy starts to kill them both.

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