A former councilor for the town of Scottsville has plans to produce a film depicting small town America based on the offbeat coverage of happenings contained in his two-page newsletters.

Scottsville Weekly publisher and local artist Bebe Williams will document life and times in the horseshoe bend on video and include flash animation cartoons to create a motion picture anyone in America can love.

“We have a small town that’s a pretty good example of what’s going on in America,” says Williams whose weekly articles highlight needs of the people in a way he hopes is humorous, but also attention-grabbing.

“I am hoping to help people lighten up a little bit, too,” which, he says is why he “brought the marijuana question up” before elections last year to each of the town councilors and published his findings in Scottsville Weekly.

“People wanted to talk about [legalizing marijuana] and they did,” Williams says. “It made a small town interact.”  The artist believes Scottsville is a good example of small town America because “we have everything everybody else does.”

Stories range from peacocks on the loose to the hardscape plans for Scottsville’s streets. “If you lived in a neighborhood in New York, you’d see it’s similar: businesses come and go, you find out who your real good friends are, some people give you a hard time—to, me it’s just all the same thing. I think [Scottsville] is a lot like being in New York City except it’s two blocks long.”

To him, “everything is interesting. Going to a kid’s art show with teenagers who never had an art show before is really cool, or talking to the town janitor. This week, (Scottsville Weekly’s) going to make a guide to pizza. We’re going to see a pizza demonstration at (local restaurant) 330 and talk about combining his artistic endeavors of graffiti.”

Williams will compile favored stories published in his weekly paper to create a movie script. “I figure when I have 150 issues done, I can make it a screen play,” combining satire as entertainment, which he feels “makes an audience, but allows normalcy to set in. There is room for an alternative voice and it’s going to make a good movie.”

The artist published one of the first web comics on the Internet for which he earned an esteemed Xeric Foundation Grant Award from the co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1995). Now with plans to branch into filmmaking, he would ideally like to see the Scottsville movie included in The Sundance Film Festival and in movie theaters.

He approximates two years of gathering and documenting data will need to take place before the film is finished. In the meantime, video footage of the town has already been offered by various residents who believe Scottsville could truly star on the silver screen. “I’d encourage people of Scottsville to give me input of how they envision their small town.”  To do so, contact Williams by email at .