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Sitting down in front of a computer to write a screenplay is a daunting task. Directing and producing a feature film is a mammoth undertaking that can take years to complete if it ever actual gets done at all. Writing/Directing duo David Alford and Joseph Stam know this first-hand. The team co-write the 2020 film “Found.” and co-directed the 2022 project, “Royal Ashes”.

CPP is excited to announce that Libby Smallbone will be playing LeAnne Nelson in our newest project to be shot this summer. She will be new to our audiences but not new to performing. From an early age, Libby has been surrounded by the entertainment world. When she was four years old, she started touring with her family, as her sister Rebecca St. James was traveling all over America

Last summer CPP staffers David Alford and Joseph Stam attended the Christian Worldview Film Festival in support of last year’s project “Royal Ashes” There, they caught a viewing of two other films that were being featured there, “Imposter Pastor” and the new Kendrick Brothers film, “Lifemark”. Both films featured an actress who really stood out to them, Sharonne Lanier.

In 2019, a small Virginia film group that would later become Cross Purposes Productions sent out a casting call for a teenage male to play the lead in its first short film. The role was that of Jamie, a cancer stricken sixteen-year-old destined to live out his remaining days on a hospital ward. A sixteen-year-old boy named Joseph Stam landed the role. The next year he would take on a lead in a CPP feature film entitled “Found.” which would go on to be seen globally by millions.

Rick is hardly a stranger to anyone who has seen any of Cross Purposes Production’s feature films. He played the unflappable Sheriff Callier in “Found.” and Mr. Mahoney in “Royal Ashes”. Rick is tapping into his dramatic roots this time around tackling the complex role of haunted, Vietnam POW, Griff Bowden.