by the time rights to "a light before the darkness" reverted to him, he had completed his second and third screenplays, "magnum farce," and "ms. valkyrie." after several near-misses with production of magnum farce, he established his own sole-proprietorship production company bella fe films in 2008, to produce the short film adaptation "magnum farce: a shot in the park" which garnered top accolades at film festivals.