Tony and Joshua Gary's grandfather passed away in 2025, a few months before the pair began filming Temple.
The 25-minute short comedy-drama, set to debut May 12th at New York City's Big Apple Film Festival, mirrors the experiences Tony had living in Atlanta with their grandfather, who suffered from dementia. Real-life brushes with a group of door-to-door missionaries trying to take advantage of the elderly man's condition frame the movie's title.
Not only was the film shot in the house where Tony, Joshua and their grandfather wiled away the elderly man's final years. But the actor initially hired to play Jean, the brothers' onscreen combined namesake, had to be replaced at the last minute because of their father-in-law's death. Michael Silberblatt stepped in and stars as Jean while Rick Andosca portrays the grandfather.
"We shot over, like, four days at the house," Joshua explained in an interview with Rough Draft Atlanta. "It was a pretty somber shoot. I don't think it got really super real until we put the guy playing our grandfather in wardrobe and we were seeing him at the table that we saw our grandfather at just a couple of months earlier."
Andosca, a veteran actor with a myriad of acting and directing credits, continues to teach Meisner technique classes in Atlanta. The brothers Gary, under the banner Funguh Productions, have made a number of previous films, including the 2020 feature drama Half a Mile Out on the Night, which won a pair of prizes at European film festivals.
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