Film: Widget & Faux

We started pre-production for Widget & Faux in August and September. It is a very interesting short-film by Director Steven Mah, Red Horse Films, based on Plato's Republic. My friend, Doug Rottering, who is the musician for all of Dennis Ward's films was going to be involved in scoring the music for this film, and they had lost their lead character. So I arranged to meet with the Director around the time of August 15th, and I responded to his interview in full character. I got the lead on the spot!

I play Faux, the "shadow on the Wall" to Widget. Widget decides to leave the cave, but Faux, being the narcissist that he is, will have nothing of it. This has been a fun project, because we are learning sword fighting and some stage martial arts moves for the film. I had the opportunity to train under a guy who works every year as a warrior at the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs, KS. They use swords made of foam, but it can still hurt if you get poked in the eye or slapped on the wrists twenty times. During the beginning of this training process, they teach us real controlled sword fighting and once we get that down, we will start the more showmanship stage type of training. Sadly, the Director's father passed away and we grieve with him. So we have postponed production until Spring, 2006.

Update: Summer, 2006 - It appears that this film is never going to get made. Left a few messages to the director and he is out of commission.