Blue Logic Productions of Dallas is producing the award-winning novel Balaam Gimble’s Gumption as a short film, shooting in Dallas, Lake Mineral Wells State Park, and the Possum Kingdom area.   David L. Brehm and Taama Forasiepi of Blue Logic are producing, while David L. Brehm is doubling as director.  The screenplay, written by Mike Farris of Dallas, is an adaptation of Fort Worth novelist Mike Nichols’ book of the same name that won the Texas Institute of Letters John Bloom Humor Award for the Funniest Texas Book of 2004.  The feature-length screenplay has already been written, and Blue Logic hopes to use the short film to draw interest in the feature.  

Balaam Gimble’s Gumption is a provocative social commentary, with humor that comes often and in various veins—satire, dark comedy, irony, a dash of slapstick and down-home country guffaws. The small Texas town of Willoughby is about to dry up and blow away unless it can find the secret to economic revival.  When things look their darkest, part-time handyman and full-time eccentric Balaam Gimble discovers a health-giving mineral spring on his rural land, and the townspeople think that they have found the right recipe…Just add water.