Norwalk Filmmaker Invites You to Follow the Yellow Brick Road

A Ridgefield/Norwalk filmmaker is embarking upon an exciting new adventure that will take viewers back to the land of Oz.

Everyone knows the story of the young girl from Kansas who dreams of a colorful, magical land where a wizard makes her dreams come true. But in Yellow Brick Road, adult Dorothy Gale returns to Oz where she teams up with the Wizard to face Betsy Bobbin who is searching for the Silver Slippers. The Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Lion, and the Good Witches, will work together with Dorothy to defeat the wicked tyrant.

The film was written by 16-year-old Angelo Thomas, and directed and produced by Leigh Scott, owner of Ridgefield-based Imaginarium Studios. Scott recently directed and produced the TV mini-series Witches of Oz, starring Christopher Llyod, Billy Boyd and Mia Sara. With more than two dozen feature films in his portfolio, Scott has worked as a professional writer, director, producer, editor, and cinematographer or over two decades with some of the industry’s greats including Roger Corman, Mickey Rooney, Kevin Sorbo and many more.

Scott was introduced to Thomas while making Witches of Oz via the internet. Thomas helped to introduce Scott’s film to the legions of Oz fans out there that Thomas was in contact with on a daily basis. “Angelo is the single greatest Oz fan I’ve ever met. Oz is part of his DNA,” noted Scott in reference to his co-director.

Thomas said there has been some skepticism with retelling such a beloved, classic tale. He wants viewers to know that he is “not trying to tarnish what was already there.”

“It’s still a very human story and about growing up and what that means,” the 16-year-old writer said in a television interview.

The producers, Leigh Scott, Ramona Mallory and Christopher Campbell, have set up an Indegogo campaign to fund the animation and production which stars Whitney Kraus Jones, Ramona Mallory, Christy Carlson Romano, Georgia Warner and features original music from Shaley Scott.

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Photo: Artwork by Tally Todd