Screening for Locally Shot Movie Held in D’Iberville

After the state legislature passed tax incentives for the film industry, the movie business has started to boom on the Coast. Now, a locally filmed movie is finally complete and was screened Monday night in D’Iberville.

Happy Log, directed by Gary Theiman, is the story of two altar boys who want to prove their manhood by going on an overnight fishing trip. The script is based on Theiman and his best friend, Frank Alexander’s, childhood adventures. Those adventures are portrayed by a more than half Mississippi cast, and shot entirely on the Coast.

Thieman says, “Mississippi is where my heart is, and we have done that. We’ve literally edited a final cut of this film at 20th Century Fox, so major executives from all walks of studio life have seen excerpts of this film and every one of them said, ‘Woah! Where did you shoot this?’ South Mississippi.”

Monday night, cast and crew screened the movie at the Grand Theater in D’Iberville, instead of in L.A., since most cast and crew members are locals. Happy Log executives are now in negotiations to bring the movie to theaters everywhere.