RTVF major also producer
By John Ashley Menzies
Staff Reporter

If a group of more than 40 people with a TV bigger than 40 inches wants to see his movie, senior radio-TV-film major Clint Gage will show it.

Gage, along with Nick Mundy, a senior RTVF major at St. Thomas University in Houston, co-founded Kleinwood Pictures and took this summer to produce “Movement,” their third movie in three years.

After first premiering the movie in front of 430 people over two days in Houston, they are premiering the movie in Fort Worth, Gage said.

The movie will follow four storylines and see them begin to come together, Gage said.

The premier is set for tonight at 7 p.m. in Moudy Building South, Room 164.

“We’re taking the small band approach with this movie,” Mundy said.

The story originally came from an old movie that Gage has done called “Brownian Movement.”

“It was a bad movie, but the idea was good,” Gage said. “So we took that idea and wrote the movie in about one night over Christmas.”

Charles LaMendola, an RTVF professor, said he thinks it is really good for a student to do this type of individual project.

“You have to learn by doing,” LaMendola said.

Many students have wanted to do such things, but they usually can’t find the financial backing, he said. It is good for Gage to take advantage of the opportunity, he said.

Kleinwood Pictures was formed in 2001 by Gage, Mundy and a group of their friends who produced their first movie “Late Fee,” Gage said.

“After our first movie took off better than we could imagine, things just grew from there,” Mundy said.

Gage said Kleinwood Pictures currently has three films in pre-production. The first of the three will begin filming in October, he said.

“We are doing this for the experience more than doing it for fun,” Gage said.

To find out more information about Kleinwood Pictures visit their Web site at (www.kleinwoodpictures.com).