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<\/a>Faraj<\/p><\/div>\u201cAnd the big question is, you know, how is she going to save herself from being the mother of the Antichrist?\u201d<\/p>\n
As sophomore film major Conrad Faraj explained the premise of his first feature film, he noticed the tension in the room.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah,\u201d Faraj said. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty dark stuff. I\u2019m not sure how it got so dark.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faraj has been working on his film, \u201cThe Shadow People,\u201d since Halloween 2009, and it will officially premiere in Columbus this Friday, the 13th of May \u2014 all very fitting for a horror movie that follows the supposed mother of a demon child.<\/p>\n
Before the official premiere<\/a> in Columbus, however, Faraj will host a screening<\/a> and a question-and-answer session in Toledo. It will take place at 8 p.m. at the Rave Motion Pictures theater in Westfield Franklin Park Mall Thursday, May 12. <\/p>\n Tickets can be purchased in advance of the screening for $7 on the film\u2019s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n Tickets also will be available at the door for the Thursday screening<\/a> for $8, cash only.<\/p>\n Watch the theatrical trailer for the movie: httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pbSgZch025k.<\/p>\n Though Faraj has been making short films since 2003, \u201cThe Shadow People\u201d will be his first feature-length outing. He said he got the idea to make a full-length movie after watching 2009\u2019s low-budget cult smash \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d with friends.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought, \u2018That\u2019s really good. And they made it themselves. I can make a movie,\u2019\u201d he said. And he started on the script.<\/p>\n In addition to writing the script, Faraj produced and directed the movie, and he had a hand in editing it as well \u2014 a post-production process that has taken nearly a year to complete. <\/p>\n \u201cWe shot over 60 hours of footage for the film,\u201d Faraj said, adding much of that took place on campus, in Toledo and Cleveland. \u201cWe had two editors quit because they had never done features before and it was too much for them to handle.\u201d<\/p>\n The final cut of the movie runs two hours and 18 minutes and cost about $2,000 to produce. The largest chuck of that, Faraj said, came from flying actor Peter Marquardt, who has had roles in \u201cDesperado\u201d and other Hollywood films, to Ohio to star in the film.<\/p>\n Another film by Faraj was well-received. His 2009 short titled \u201cThe Artist\u201d took second place at the Indie Gathering Film Festival in Cleveland. Watch \u201cThe Artist\u201d here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" See UT student Conrad Faraj’s movie \u201cThe Shadow People\u201d before its official premiere! A screening will take place Thursday, May 12, at 8 p.m. at the Rave Motion Pictures theater in Westfield Franklin Park Mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}