Kick it out with Steel Toes
November 23, 2007

Set in Montreal, Monterey Media’s Steel Toes (available now) tells the story of a neo-Nazi skinhead (Andrew Walker) who is on trial for the heinous hate-crime of murdering a Pakistani man. His court-appointed attorney is a liberal Jewish Layer (David Strathairn) who finds himself spending an unsurprisingly fiery day with his newest client in a meeting at this prison.

A rather intense subject, yes, so it’s not surprising that the film’s writer and producer, David Gow (the film is based upon his own 2000 play Cherry Docs), conscripted a co-director to work with filmmaker Mark Allen whom he knew could carry off the job of putting it on screen: himself. Thus, Gow added the film credit of "director" to his resume.

"Steel Toes gives me a huge sense of satisfaction,” Gow told us in a recent interview. I wasn’t initially interested in making a movie adaptation--I just didn’t see it happening. I put my energies into it in good faith.”

The film cost approximately $1.25 million to produce, according to Gow.

“I hooked up with a company in Montreal that helped me with the whole project,” he said. “It was a modest production, but it’s all on the screen.”

Posted by Laurence Lerman on November 23, 2007 | Comments (0)