Q&A with Director Rupert Russell Rupert Russell’s wild ride documentaryThe Last Sacrifice uncovers thereal-lifewitchcraft killing that inspiredThe Wicker Manand birthed the folk horror genre. Thisunsettling true-crime interrogation unlocks the perverse cultural undercurrents thatshaped the genre from its murderous beginnings to its modern-day resurrection. Thisis a journey that gets under the skin of British polite society, that slays with pride, killswith prejudice and exposes an island nation’s dark heart to revealThe Wicker Manismore fact than fiction. Rupert Russell is an award-winning writer, director and author. His documentaryfeature debut, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF, won the Audience Award at theSlamdanceFilm Festival and was nominated for the Cinema for Peace‘MostValuable Film of the Year’Award during Berlinale 2019. His animated docuseriesHOW THE WORLD WENT MAD premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and earned him aspot on the shortlist for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions. His investigationinto commodities and conflict, PRICE WARS, was both a feature-documentary thataired on ARTE, and a book published by Doubleday at Penguin Random House.Last September, he premiered his latest feature doc, THELAST SACRIFICE, on thetrue-life‘witchcraft’murder that inspired THE WICKER MAN and helped invent folkhorror. He is currently in production on a new feature doc, MAD DAD, about hisfather, the late director Ken Russell, which includes interviews with Guillermo delToro, Oliver Stone, Kathleen Turner, Pete Townshend, Twiggy, and many more. He isa member of the LGBTQ+ community and has directed commercials celebratingPride for HSBC.