Rex Sikes' Movie Beat chats with filmmaker Ken Mora PT 2

Ken Mora,filmmaker, is best known for creating the computer-animated short films Magnum Farce: A Shot in the Park and Magnum Farce: Along Came a Sniper. Currently his production company BellaFe Films is producing the feature film Magnum Farce, with an expected 2013 release date. Ken is executive producer of Adventures In Plymptoons the official biographical documentary of animator Bill Plympton. Ken 1st established a career in Art Direction then E-Commerce, now filmmaking. He completed his first feature-length screenplay in 2003 winning several script competition awards, got him an agent, then an option. So in 2004 he established Bella Fe Films. Ken completed two more scripts by the time his first option expired. Magnum Farce, his second script, also won multiple awards. Ken adapted a short from his script, and by degrees built the infrastructure for self-production using the example of independent animator Bill Plympton. In 2009 Ken got the opportunity to executive-produce a documentary on Bill Plympton, now complete, but then in production by producer/director Alexia Anastasio. Ken then got the opportunity to meet Bill at the 2009 Annie Awards, and has since benefited by Bills mentorship. For the feature-film production Bill came on board as advising producer, and currently Ken is putting together the nose-to-tail animatic, having just wrapped voice recordings for all characters with talent including Larry Hankin, Lisa K. Wyatt, Kyle Hebert, and fellow animators Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan. Ken is currently finishing the soundtrack which will ultimately be edited and mixed by Rick Partlow, whose sound work such shows as Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Eureka, has garnered him both Prime-Time Emmy and Golden Reel Awards. Stay tuned to Rex Sikes Movie Beat for other great archived interviews, cast and crew listings, events, festivals, premieres, and more at rexsikes.com

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