Filmmaker talks about making a Western in New Mexico in the wake of the ‘Rust’ tragedy

Filmmaker talks about making a Western in New Mexico in the wake of the ‘Rust’ tragedy

Chicago writer-director Ned Crowley’s indie Western “Killing Faith” is set in the Arizona desert in 1849. It follows a doctor (Guy Pearce) who numbs his misery with ether but sobers up long enough to escort a driven and resourceful formerly enslaved woman (DeWanda Wise) across the barren landscape. She’s in search of a deceptively chipper preacher (Bill Pullman) who she believes can cast out whatever force — or sickness — plagues the little girl…