A humble tailor is more than he seems in “Hidden Thread,” an upcoming action film being shot in Arkansas. It is the first feature film by writer, director, producer and actor Ben Matias, who recently appeared in “The Forest Through the Trees,” a horror film released last year by Arkansas director Jason Pitts.
“This is a project I’ve been working on for about the past year and a half,” Matias said. “I’ve been writing the script, directing everything, producing everything. I’m funding everything myself, as well.”
Matias said he taught himself to act while creating reels for social media related to comedy and mental health. After being signed by an agency, he gathered together his close friends and family to tell them he wanted to make a film with them.
“One of my biggest goals in my life was to be able to make my own movie where I was able to control everything in it,” he said, “so I pretty much gathered all of my friends and my family and sat down with them because I told them years and years ago if I ever made it into a position in my life where I was able to do something big and have an impact, I wanted to bring them along with that.”…