Interview with Jim Foley

Xingu was one of the short films I had the opportunity to see mid-day Saturday. This was a hilarious short film based on a short story by Edith Wharton, who has seen some of her other work become the basis of the 1993 Martin Scorsese film The Age of Innocence starring Daniel Day-Lewis. The story deals with a group of intellectuals who are undone by an author and a member of their group who they thought was less intelligent. It’s a brilliant satire of those groups and people who think they’re more intelligent than the rest of us, but really have no clue.

On Friday night, prior to watching the film, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the stars of this short, Jim Foley. By day Foley works for IBM, but here he portrays a character who runs an art gallery, and is one of the characters duped by the mystery of Xingu. I had the opportunity to sit down with Jim Foley for an interview about his involvement in the production of Xingu.

For more information on Xingu and Kids Creek Productions, visit their site.