It’s a long way to Hollywood, but former Moore County resident Timothy Scott Fields is looking forward to the trip.

Fields, son of Daisy Johnson, formerly of Southern Pines, and the late Clarence Fields Jr., along with friend and co-writer/director Ralph McLeod, will leave Myrtle Beach, S.C. today to take a full-length feature film to Raleigh Studios in the cinematic city to a showing at the annual Angelciti Film Festival.

The film, “Pickford Paradox,” has been in production for a little over a year and a half. It was filmed in Horry and Georgetown counties and features actors from that area as well as professionals from Wilmington and New York City.

The film is scheduled to be shown at 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16.

Fields, a silent-film collector, uses the surname “Scott” in the credits for the film, which he co-wrote and produced.

“It’s a really good-hearted movie,” says Fields in a telephone interview with The Pilot. “It’s about these people in their late 20s and early 30s who are stuck in a rut, much like some of my friends.”

“It’s like the old Cheech and Chong movies,” says McCloud, “except that it incorporates a lot of Charlie Chaplin.

A special element of the film is the technique used to project contemporary actors into scenes featuring Chaplin.

Fields has lived in Myrtle Beach since 1986 and owns Floor-It International, a company that installs flooring in new homes and condominums. He has put more than $100,000 into this independent production.

Three companies in particular seem to be showing an interest in the film.

“We hope to close the deal to release the movie and will get into final discussions with one of the three while in Hollywood,” he says.

Fields, whose brother Allen Fields is with the Minnesota Ballet, was always involved in theater even back in high school.

“I graduated from Pinecrest in 1982,” he says. “I was involved in one way or another with productions there almost the whole time I was in school.”

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“Once it’s acquired, it could go to film or straight to video,” says Fields. “It’s their decision.”

Fields and McCloud are already at work on their next project.