One of the first things David Clayton Rogers thought when he learned that the movie he wrote was chosen for the Atlanta Film Festival was how excited he would be to watch the movie in his hometown with family and friends.
Then Rogers, 31 and a Westminster grad, had another thought.
Said Rogers, it went something like: "What if the program director of the Atlanta Film Festival is just as delusional as I am, and I sit there with my family and my friends and they get to sit there and see the terrible movie I've made?"
Rogers will chance it. Today he'll be at Landmark's Midtown Art Cinema when the film festival screens "Skylight," a 29-minute film that he wrote and acted in.
Film festival executive director Gabriel Wardell called "Skylight" "a fascinating story" and praised its special effects and worthy payoff at the end. It was one of 108 short films picked from more than 1,000 submissions.
"Skylight" centers on two men and how their random encounter changes the courses of their lives. Rogers calls it "a dark fairy tale about second chances and the power of magic that exists in our lives."
The script was just the second Rogers has written for public consumption. He has largely focused on acting, appearing in TV shows such as "CSI: NY," "Brothers and Sisters" and "Numbers."
Rogers, who graduated from the University of Virginia in 2000, has pursued acting in New York and for about the last six years in Los Angeles.
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