#1: Can you describe your movie and why somebody should see it in less than 140 characters?

There’s great acting, it’s black and white, and the subject matter is a bit of a mind-f**k. Watch it!

#2: What do you want the Borrego FilmFestival audience to know about your film that isn’t obvious from its title?

It’s not about bankers or financial institutions. Or film financiers.

#3: What is your movie making background? Tell us about yourself.

I’m an actor. Currently filming Hans Rosenfeldt’s Marcella for ITV here in London until March next year. Creditors is my first film as a director, screenwriter, and producer.

#4: What was the biggest lesson learned in getting your film made?

Managing expectations starts with not expecting to manage others the same way you manage yourself.

#5: What does the future hold for your film and you?

For Creditors, we’ll keep seeing it through more festivals as we go. It’ll be making the rounds at the main European markets in Berlin and Cannes this year with our sales agents New Morning Films taking it there. As for myself and a new film project, I’m currently working on a script for a new film. Can’t say much more about it for now...

Cast : Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles; Rush; Northern Soul; The Theory of Everything), Andrea Deck (Mr. Selfridge; The Devil’s Violinist; The Counsellor), Ben Cura (Comes a bright day; Threesome; Dream On), Tom Bateman (The Tunnel; Da Vinci’s Demons; Jekyll and Hyde), Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral; Poirot) Synopsis Grant Pierce (Christian McKay) arrives from London into Madrid, Spain, hoping to be given the chance to meet his favourite painter, American Freddie Lynch (Ben Cura), who is currently staying at a private hotel in an unassuming location outside the city. As Grant steps into the main building of 'El Madroño', he troublingly finds Lynch a crippled man whom, he soon reveals, has been unable to actually paint for the better part of a year. As the two men get to know each other under the watchful eye of one of the owners of the hotel, Michael Redmane (Tom Bateman), they start to piece together the disturbing picture of Freddie's marriage to beautiful writer Chloe Fleury (Andrea Deck) which harbours secrets that will reveal much more than Freddie's recent creative emaciation and clearly defined obsession with her ex-husband. Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play, 'Creditors' is a modern re-telling of Strindberg's story of love, betrayal, revenge and psychological manipulation, which he considered to be his one true masterpiece. At times disturbingly funny and cruelly bleak, 'Creditors' deals with the most private aspects of human relationships. From questioning our concepts of marriage and fidelity, to trying to establish the role of the modern woman in a world still trapping her within the confines of old fashioned canons, the film's story stirs, moves and sometimes even angrily rebuts our very own personal definitions of each.

5Q's w/Ben Cura "Creditors" Director