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A Texas Family Affair
by Richard Horgan |
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5/21/2009 at 3:55:26 PM |
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Aspiring actor-producer Brett Folmar is just getting started in the independent moviemaking business, which means he can work closely with his stepfather under the auspices of resourcefulness rather than nepotism. In the $10,000 recently wrapped period Western Texas and Me, based on a script by his dad Jay Riley, Riley plays a U.S. Marshal while Folmar stars as the Galveston newspaper reporter that he befriends.
Also in the narrative mix is the real-life character of celebrated 19th century cattle rancher Charles Goodnight (pictured below), who earned the nickname “Father of the Texas Panhandle.” It is when Riley’s U.S. Marshal joins Goodnight to fight Indians that the real trouble starts; when Riley returns home, he finds that his own ranch has been ransacked by Comanches and his wife and daughter apparently killed.
Far from the reaches of Hollywood, there is also another unusual wrinkle to be found with regards to the Alanreed, TX filmed oater: a modest producer. “I have never acted, professionally, nor do I claim to be one now,” Folmar, a personal trainer and massage therapist by day, wrote recently on his production company’s MySpace page. “I just pretend. But it looks a lot like acting, and the newspaper reporter on the set the last day said my acting was ’more than adequate for this production’… I won’t claim any title other than a Creative Texan.”
Texas and Me is the first of a trilogy of Westerns that Folmar hopes to make, and if he can’t find a distributor, he will look to the new frontier of the Internet to find an audience. Adding to the convivial nature of the enterprise is the presence of his stepfather’s musical partner Gene Jones, who plays a storekeeper-slash-undertaker-slash-preacher.
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