Liford’s Next Film Underway

Principal photography for Dallas-based writer/director Clay Liford’s new film, “Wuss,” began July 15. Producers are Adam Donaghey and Eric Steele, with Executive Producer Bala Shagrithaya. The film stars Nate Rubin, who played the lead in Liford’s 2009 Sundance short “My Mom Smokes Weed,” and features Tony Hale of “Arrested Development.”

Steele offered Red Carpet Crash a brief synopsis of the film:

Rubin plays Mitch, a high school English teacher who, after disciplining a tough fifteen-year-old, ends up getting his ass kicked by his own student. Embarrassed and afraid to tell the other teachers, Mitch allows this to continue until another student, Maddie, offers to help him by becoming his bodyguard.

Liford, Donaghey, and Steele collaborated previously on “Earthling,” which world premiered at South by Southwest and is currently making the rounds on the film festival circuit.