With everybody’s thumbs fluttering over their cell phones at warp speed and the constant ping of a text message, having a real relationship sometimes seems impossible.
That’s exactly the theme a former Saugeen District Secondary student and track superstar is exploring in a new film he’s written.
When Liam Card was a 17 year old student at the Port Elgin school, he set track records and competed at the international stage and at the Pan Am games.
After graduation, he tried a career in the financial world, but came back to his passion — writing.
Card’s screenplay for a movie called “Textuality” was eventually picked up, and backed by a couple of big sponsors in the cell phone game.
Blackberry-maker Research In Motion and smaller company Wind Mobile looked at the script and, as Card says, recognized that the scenarios were “spot-on” to real life.
Card says the movie is about a guy and a girl who meet but can’t further their relationship until the get rid of all the other text-relationships they have going on with their phones.
Card says the two cell phone companies were supportive of the film all the way through production, and he’s very proud the film has opened in cities across Canada.
Some locals pushed to have the film shown at the Port Elgin Cinemas this past week, and from what Card understands, it was the highest-grossing movie at the local box-office for that week.
As for a career as a writer, Card says it’s definitely not as nerve-wracking as starting off the blocks at the Pan Am Games.
The movie stars Carly Pope, Jason Lewis (Smith in Sex & the City), Eric McCormack (Will from Will & Grace) and Card himself.
