Saints of Latter Day touches on the backroom politics and machinations among all involved after two DARPA contractors unwillingly leak classified military technology. The film hits several relevant themes and concerns including abuses of power, failure to secure technology, and secretive societies. Writer/director Chaseton Ennis reached out to arrange an audition remotely. This would be the twenty fifth straight remote acting audition since my last in-person audition -- one of many aftereffects the pandemic slapped on the acting world. Days later, Chase asked me to play Jim Rabinowitz, one of the contractors' respective lawyers. Rabinowitz was described as "suave, calm and collected -- the smartest man in the room." Most of my dialogue was bounced off of Maxwell Zenner, who did a fantastic job at playing the slightly neurotic and competitive attorney, Richard Sotomeyer. Sotomeyer takes the first swing at persuading the Chairman of the United States Joint Chief of Staff to convince the President that issuing a DEFCON 3 will solve all problems. The lawyer sequence is bookended by a genre-bending secret-agent mission story that illustrates the messy consequences of the leaked technology.

Chase secured a mesmerizing chunk of property out in Wayne, NJ. for the lawyer scenes, whose expanse and edifices could have qualified as a major University campus. The main building sits on nearly two hundred acres and consists of two interconnected Class A office buildings. During setups I couldn't help exploring the six-hundred-thousand-plus square feet of offices, dining areas, kitchens and conference rooms. I would imagine the conversations, transactions, arguments, secret romances and music of life that occurred in this mini world.

Saints of Latter Day was written and directed by Chaseston Ennis and shot in Wayne, Franklin Lakes, Hawthorne and Teaneck, New Jersey by Giuseppe Masi on an Arri Alexa Mini

Running Time: 33 minutes